Martin Shafer

Martin Shafer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment.  The company has produced such critically acclaimed films as When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, (which was nominated for four Academy Awards), Absolute Power, City Slickers, In the Line of Fire, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Misery, for which Kathy Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress. They also produced The Shawshank Redemption (nominated for seven Academy Awards), The American President, and The Green Mile (nominated for four Academy Awards).  Castle Rock Entertainment is also known for producing the Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight trilogy with Richard Linklater and the enormously popular hit television show Seinfeld.  More recently they produced The Bucket List, Miss Congeniality, Friends With Benefits, and the holiday favorite The Polar Express.  

In 1995, Castle Rock Entertainment received the Excellence in Filmmaking Award at ShoWest.  

Prior to forming Castle Rock, Shafer was President of Production for Embassy Pictures and served as Executive Vice President of Production at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. In October 2000, Shafer received the Lifetime Achievement Award at ShowEast.