Work History
Brad Grey is currently chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation. Grey was named CEO in 2005. In his position, Grey is responsible for overseeing all feature film development and production for films distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Paramount Insurge, and MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. He is also responsible for the worldwide business operations for Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Home Media Distribution, Paramount Animation, Studio Group and Worldwide Television Distribution.
Among the commercial and critical hit films Paramount has produced and/or distributed during Grey's tenure are the Transformers, Paranormal Activity, and Iron Man franchises, Star Trek, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek the Third, Mission: Impossible III, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, An Inconvenient Truth, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Babel, Shutter Island, Up in the Air, The Fighter, True Grit, The Adventures of Tintin, and Hugo.
Since he became chairman and CEO of Paramount, the studio's films have been nominated for dozens of Academy Awards, including 20 in 2011 and 18 in 2012.
In 2002, Grey formed Plan B with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, with a first-look deal at Warner Bros. The company produced two films for Warner Bros: Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp, and Martin Scorsese's The Departed, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson. After Pitt and Aniston separated, Grey and Pitt moved the company to Paramount Pictures in 2005.
Previously, for 20 years, Grey was partner of the talent management company Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, one of the industry's elite organizations, regarded by Forbes as "Hollywood's most successful management and production firm", there he produced some of the most popular and most honored series on television, including the Emmy Award-winning hit, The Sopranos, The Wayne Brady Show. Several high profile and successful shows were developed in the 1990s under the Brillstein-Grey banner:
- CBS: Good Sports
- HBO: The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and The Sopranos
- NBC: NewsRadio, Just Shoot Me!
In 1996, Brillstein sold his shares of the Brillstein-Grey company to Grey, giving Grey full rein over operations; the company's television unit was subsequently rechristened "Brad Grey Television". Grey also ventured into film by producing the Adam Sandler hit, Happy Gilmore.
Grey is a multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, PGA and Emmy Award winner, as well as a four-time recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award.
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