James W. Skotchdopole

James W. Skotchdopole is an American film producer. He has produced films such as Birdman and The Revenant.

Career

Raised in New York, Skotchdopole career in the film industry began in 1982. In 1984, Skotchdopole became the youngest member to be accepted into the Directors Guild of America. Skotchdopole served as an Executive producer on four of Director Tony Scott's films, and collaborated with Nora Ephron three times. He also worked as an Executive producer with Quentin Tarantino twice, on Death Proof and Django Unchained. As a producer on Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, Skotchdopole won an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards. Iñárritu and Skotchdopole collaborated again in 2015 with The Revenant.

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1990	Naked Tango	Associate producer
1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Associate producer
	True Romance	Co-producer
1994	Mixed Nuts	Executive producer
1995	Crimson Tide	Associate producer
1996	The Fan	Executive producer
1998	Enemy of the State	Executive producer
2000	Company Man
	Sand
2001	Spy Game	Executive producer
2004	Man on Fire	Executive producer
2005	Bewitched	Executive producer
2007	Grindhouse	Line producer
	Death Proof	Line producer
2008	The Women	Executive producer
	Surfer, Dude	Executive producer
2010	My Own Love Song	Executive producer
2011	Violet & Daisy	Executive producer
2012	Lay the Favorite	Executive producer
	Upside Down	Executive producer
	Django Unchained	Executive producer
2014	Birdman		Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
2015	Accidental Love	Executive producer
	The Revenant
2017	War Machine	Executive producer
2018	Furlough	Executive producer
2021	Crisis	Co-executive producer
TBA	The Joy Division

Second unit director or assistant director

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1985	Turk 182	Second assistant director
	A Chorus Line
1986	The Money Pit
	Brighton Beach Memoirs
1987	Mannequin
	Ishtar
	The Untouchables
	The Believers	Second assistant director: New York
1988	Biloxi Blues	Second assistant director
	Moon over Parador
	Scrooged
1989	Dead Bang
1990	Revenge
	Days of Thunder	First assistant director
1991	What About Bob?
	The Last Boy Scout
1992	Housesitter
1993	Sleepless in Seattle
	True Romance
1994	Mixed Nuts	First assistant director Second unit director	Uncredited
1995	Crimson Tide	First assistant director
1996	The Fan
1998	Enemy of the State	Second unit director	Uncredited
2000	Sand	Second assistant director
2001	Spy Game	Second unit director	Uncredited
2005	Bewitched
2008	The Women

Production manager

Year	Film	Role
2001	Spy Game	Unit production manager: Morocco
2012	Lay the Favorite	Unit production manager
	Django Unchained
2014	Birdman
2015	The Revenant

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Film	Role
1983	Easy Money	Production assistant
	Eddie and the Cruisers
	A Night in Heaven
	Slayground
1984	The Lonely Guy
	Firstborn
	The Cotton Club
2010	Just Wright	Production consultant

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
2013	The Spectacular Now	The producers wish to thank
2016	The Comedian	The producers wish to thank the following for their assistance

Television

Year	Title	Credit
2020	Mrs. America	Co-executive producer
2022	The Peripheral	Co-executive producer
2024	Fallout	Unit production manager

Production manager

Year	Title	Role
2020	Mrs. America	Unit production manager

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	A Doctor's Story	Production assistant	Television film

External links

• James W. Skotchdopole at IMDb
• Strauss, Jordan (February 23, 2015). "James W. Skotchdopole, Sean Penn, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, John Lesher". havasunews.com. Retrieved February 23, 2015.</ref>