Art Linson
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Art Linson has produced critically acclaimed movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables , Fast Times at Ridgemont High , Into the Wild, and two time Oscar winner Melvin and Howard. Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director.
Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network. Yellowstone has become the most popular scripted series in television. Art is currently an executive producer on the hit tv series 1883 , and 1923 .
He is the author of two books A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood(1998) and What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, the last of which was made into a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro directed by Barry Levinson.
Linson's credits range from such commercial and critical hits
as The Untouchables (1987)
(winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Sean Connery),
Heat (1995)
(Robert De Niro and
Al Pacino),
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
(Sean Penn),
Car Wash (1976) and
Scrooged (1988), to unusual classics
such as
Melvin and Howard (1980)
(winner of two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting
Actress, Mary Steenburgen),
Fight Club (1999)
(Brad Pitt and
Edward Norton),
The Edge (1997)
(Anthony Hopkins),
Heist (2001)
(Gene Hackman),
Casualties of War (1989) and
This Boy's Life (1993)
(Robert De Niro and
Leonardo DiCaprio).
In 1995, Linson published his first book, "A Pound of Flesh: Perilous
Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood". His second book, "What
Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line", was
published in 2002.
Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network. Yellowstone has become the most popular scripted series in television. Art is currently an executive producer on the hit tv series 1883 , and 1923 .
He is the author of two books A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood(1998) and What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, the last of which was made into a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro directed by Barry Levinson.
Linson's credits range from such commercial and critical hits
as The Untouchables (1987)
(winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Sean Connery),
Heat (1995)
(Robert De Niro and
Al Pacino),
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
(Sean Penn),
Car Wash (1976) and
Scrooged (1988), to unusual classics
such as
Melvin and Howard (1980)
(winner of two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting
Actress, Mary Steenburgen),
Fight Club (1999)
(Brad Pitt and
Edward Norton),
The Edge (1997)
(Anthony Hopkins),
Heist (2001)
(Gene Hackman),
Casualties of War (1989) and
This Boy's Life (1993)
(Robert De Niro and
Leonardo DiCaprio).
In 1995, Linson published his first book, "A Pound of Flesh: Perilous
Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood". His second book, "What
Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line", was
published in 2002.