Tom Rothman
Chairman, Fox Filmed Entertainment

Tom Rothman has been Chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment (the parent of Twentieth Century Fox) since 2000.

Mr. Rothman has long been recognized as one of the industry's foremost production executives and has been at Fox for over a decade. In 1999, he held the position of President of Twentieth Century Fox Film Group, presiding over the studio's TCF and Fox 2000 production divisions. Prior to that he was President of Production for Twentieth Century Fox for four years and, and in 1994, was the founder and first President of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the specialty division of FFE.

In 2004, Tom Rothman added to his list of accomplishments by contributing to The Movie Business Book 3rd edition. Rothman wrote a section titled "A Chairman's View," drawing on his experiences as chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Together with his industry counterparts, Mr. Rothman gave readers a nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes look at the movie industry and its many developments since the early ‘90s.

Included among the many enduring Fox films made during his production tenure are the acclaimed Moulin Rouge, Master and Commander, the X-Men series, Cast Away, Minority Report, Ice Age, In America, Sideways and numerous other successful films ranging all the way from Napoleon Dynamite to Star Wars Episode 1, 2 & 3, and the number one grossing movie of all time: Titanic.

Fox's summer 2004 achieved an industry first with 6 films in a row having opening weekends exceeding $20 million. These hits include Man on Fire, The Day After Tomorrow, Garfield, DodgeBall, I,Robot and Alien vs. Predator. Under Mr. Rothman, Fox Filmed Entertainment just completed its third straight year of record breaking profits.

Prior to Fox, Mr. Rothman was President of Worldwide Production for the Samuel Goldwyn Company. During his tenure, that company's pictures won the Palme D'Or at Cannes three times and were nominated for over a dozen Academy Awards.

Previously, Mr. Rothman served as Executive Vice President of Production for Columbia Pictures. Prior to joining Columbia, Mr. Rothman was a partner at the New York entertainment law firm of Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein and Selz.

Mr. Rothman is currently an Emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the Sundance Institute and a director of the AFI. He is a recipient of the Arthur B. Krim Award for outstanding leadership in entertainment from Columbia University. He is an honors graduate of Brown University, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and of Columbia Law School, as a James Kent Scholar.