{"id":119255,"date":"2021-08-03T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=119255"},"modified":"2021-08-03T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:16:16","slug":"marcia-nasatir-dies-pioneering-production-exec-worked-on-best-picture-winners-rocky-cuckoos-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/marcia-nasatir-dies-pioneering-production-exec-worked-on-best-picture-winners-rocky-cuckoos-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Nasatir Dies: Pioneering Production Exec Worked On Best Picture Winners ‘Rocky’, ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Marcia Nasatir, an film executive producer who shattered barriers as Hollywood’s first VP Production, working on back-to-back Best Picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest <\/em>and Rocky <\/em>and many other pics, died Tuesday morning at the Motion Picture & Television Fund hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. She was 95.<\/p>\n No cause of death was reported.<\/p>\n Nasatir was working a lit agent in the mid-1970s when she joined United Artists as a story editor. She was named VP West Coast Development, working with SVP Production Mike Medavoy. Along with Best Picture winners Rocky <\/em>and Cuckoo’s Nest, <\/em>UA also produced such classics of the era as Brian De Palma’s Carrie <\/em>and Robert Redford’s Three Days of the Condor.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After serving in executive positions with Carson Films and 20th Century Fox, Nasatir relocated to New York in 1983. After executive producing The Big Chill, s<\/em>he formed Marcia Nasatir Productions in 1984 and went on to produce the 1987 features Hamburger Hill <\/em>and Ironweed <\/em>before focusing on telefilms in the 1990s.<\/p>\n Her later feature EP credits include Vertical Limit, Death Defying Acts <\/em>and the documentary Elle.<\/em><\/p>\n Born on May 8, 1926m in San Antonio, she was the subject of A Classy Broad, <\/em>a 2016 feature documentary from writer-director Anne Goursaud that focused on her pioneering career and “misadventures in Hollywood.”<\/p>\nWatch on Deadline<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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