Scott Rudin (born on July 14, 1958) is a Jewish American film, TV, and theater maker. 

His movies incorporate the Academy Award-winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men, just as Lady Bird, Fences, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, School of Rock, Zoolander, The Truman Show, The First Wives Club, Clueless, The Addams Family, and eight Wes Anderson films. On Broadway, he has won seventeen Tony Awards for shows like The Book of Mormon, Hello, Dolly!, The Humans, A View from the Bridge, Fences, and Passion. 

In April 2021, a story in The Hollywood Reporter claimed various occurrences of maltreatment from Rudin towards representatives, including tossing objects at workers, breaking a PC screen on a worker's hand, and causing psychological mistreatment that is accepted to have added to the self-destruction of a previous aide.

Following the Hollywood Reporter claims, Rudin declared that he would be "venturing back" from his Broadway, film, and streaming tasks to "work on private matters I ought to have quite a while in the past."

On April 20, Variety detailed that Rudin's name would be taken out from various forthcoming movies, and that "Rudin's business relationship with A24, the independent studio where he created such acclaimed films as Lady Bird and Uncut Gems, is finished."

Early life 

Rudin was brought up in Baldwin, New York, on Long Island in a Jewish family. 

Vocation 

At 16 years old, he began filling in as an associate to theater maker Kermit Bloomgarden. Afterward, he worked for makers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg.

In lieu of going to school, Rudin accepted a position as a projecting chief and wound up beginning his own organization. His recently printed firm cast various Broadway shows, including Annie (1977) for Mike Nichols.

He additionally cast PBS's Verna: USO Girl (1978), featuring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt; and the smaller than normal arrangement The Scarlet Letter (1979) featuring Meg Foster, Kevin Conway, and John Heard; likewise, the movies King of the Gypsies (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Simon (1980) with Alan Arkin and Resurrection (1980).[6] 

Film producer

In 1980, Rudin moved to Los Angeles, taking up work at Edgar J. Scherick Associates, where he filled in as maker on an assortment of movies including I'm Dancing as Fast as possible (1981), the NBC miniseries Little Gloria... Cheerful finally (1982) and the Oscar-winning narrative He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983). 

Rudin at that point framed his own organization, Scott Rudin Productions. His first film under that standard was Gillian Armstrong's Mrs. Soffel (1984). Not long after, Rudin put his creation shingle in torpidity and joined Twentieth Century Fox as a leading maker.

At Fox, he met Jonathan Dolgen, a more elevated level chief, with whom he would be working by and by at Paramount Pictures years after the fact. Rudin rose through the positions at Fox and became leader of the creation in 1986 at 28 years of age. 

His spell at the highest point of Fox was brief, and he before long left and went into a delivering manage Paramount. On August 1, 1992, Rudin marked an arrangement with TriStar Pictures yet before long moved back to Paramount.

Rudin's first-look manage Paramount Pictures endured almost 15 years, creating pictures including The First Wives Club, The Addams Family, Clueless, Sabrina, and Sleepy Hollow. 

Theater producer

Ordinarily delivering somewhere in the range of two and five creations each year, Rudin is one of Broadway's most productive business makers. 

His first Broadway play, David Henry Hwang's Face Value in 1993, was delivered close by Stuart Ostrow and Jujamcyn Theaters, and it shut after eight review exhibitions.

He began an arrangement with Jujamcyn to create and deliver new plays for the venue chain. In 1994, Rudin won the Best Musical Tony Award for his creation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion. The next year, he co-created Kathleen Turner's Broadway rebound, Indiscretions, and Ralph Fiennes' New York stage debut in Hamlet.

In 1996, Rudin delivered the restoration of the Stephen Sondheim and Larry Gelbart melodic A Funny Thing Happened while in transit to the Forum, for which Nathan Lane won his first Tony Award. 

Since 2011, Rudin has won Tony Awards for creating Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (coordinated by Mike Nichols and featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (featuring Denzel Washington), David Hare's Skylight (coordinated by Stephen Daldry and featuring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy), Stephen Karam's The Humans, Ivo van Hove's arranging of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge, and the record-breaking restoration of Hello, Dolly! featuring Bette Midler.

Other striking creations remember Larry David's Fish for the Dark, a hit satire that took in "more than $13.5 million ahead of time deals in the cinematic world [which] beats the past record for a play, $13.05 million for the 2013 recovery of Harold Pinter's Betrayal," which Rudin delivered featuring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz. 

Media investigation 

Rudin has drawn consideration for his decision to pull out from at any rate two significant Broadway creations. He left the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, in February 2012 in front of an April opening, because of a quarrel with essayist Bruce Norris that was inconsequential to the play.

At that point, the New York Post's Michael Riedel said, "And like Merrick, he doesn't put up with imbeciles, particularly ones who backpedal on their promise."

Jujamcyn Theaters president Jordan Roth at last created Clybourne Park, and it won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.

In 2015, it was reported that Rudin would deliver Groundhog Day, a melodic variation of the film Groundhog Day, initially featuring Bill Murray.

Tim Minchin, who wrote the honor-winning variation of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical, composed the music and verses, and screenwriter Danny Rubin composed the book.

Rudin pulled out from the creation in June 2016, refering to innovative contrasts with the creation group. Groundhog Day opened on Broadway in 2017 and was a monetary disappointment, shutting after only five months. 

In 2013, after New York Times theater correspondent Patrick Healy distributed a meeting with Colm Toibin, the creator of Rudin's monetarily ineffective The Testament of Mary, Rudin ran a commercial in the Times, saying:

"We should give a major cuddly whoop to Pat Healy, newborn child provocateur, and beginner writer at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day maybe you'll learn something about how Broadway functions, and perhaps get it." 

In 2016, in a return to a previous practice on Broadway, Rudin requested that all pundits go to the premiere night execution of his creation of The Front Page, which featured Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Holland Taylor, and Robert Morse.

(Ordinarily, pundits are welcome to a few exhibitions preceding Opening Night, giving them an adequate chance to document surveys.) In a public debate, Hollywood Reporter pundit David Rooney, who had contention on the date of the opening, recoiled from the change, adding, "You realize no one works at that pace any longer, right?"

Rudin shot back, "Pundits assessed shows on Broadway this path for a very long time. You can do it for one evening. Get over it." Rooney's rave survey, at last, ran two days after the fact 

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack 

On December 9, 2014, a significant unlawful break of Sony's PC frameworks by "Watchmen of Peace" programmers utilizing Shamoon malware prompted the exposure of numerous gigabytes of taken data, including inner organization reports.

In resulting news inclusion, SPE Co-Chair Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin were noted to have had an email trade about Pascal's impending experience with President Barack Obama that included portrayals depicted as bigoted. Both he and Pascal later apologized. 

The two had recommended they should specify films about African-Americans after gathering the president, like Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, and Amistad which all examine subjection in the United States or the pre-social equality time. In the email string, Rudin added, "I bet he loves Kevin Hart."

Rudin later said that the messages were "Private messages among companions and partners written in a flurry and absent a lot of thought or affectability." He added that he was "significantly and profoundly grieved." 

Criticism and allegations of abusive behavior

Rudin is broadly viewed as one of the hardest and most harmful managers in media outlets. 

He has been designated "Hollywood's greatest a-opening" (the New York Post's "Page Six"), "the most dreaded man around" (The Hollywood Reporter), and famously hot-tempered. Rudin recognized having a temper however said he has grown up. 

In April 2021, Rudin was denounced, by various representatives addressing The Hollywood Reporter, of a long-standing example of oppressive conduct towards his workers, including actual maltreatment.