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Edward Saxon
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Edward Saxon is an Academy Award-winning film producer. He is arguably best known for the film The Silence of the Lambs, which is, to date, the third and last film to sweep the five main categories of Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Director, and Academy Award for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. (The others are It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.)
Formerly Jonathan Demme's producing partner, his films include Beloved, Ulee's Gold, That Thing You Do, The Truth About Charlie, Married to the Mob, Miami Blues, and Philadelphia.
After parting ways with Demme, Saxon produced Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's Adaptation. His most recent production is Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation. He currently has a first look deal with Participant Productions, an independent company devoted to socially conscious films.
He is an alumnus of McGill University and graduated from The Peter Stark Producing Program at USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1984.
He was originally an actor and was one of VH1's first VJ's in New York City. He had had several cameos in the films he has produced (Most notably as a head in a jar in Silence of the Lambs).