Directors
Alexander Payne Net Worth
Constantine Alexander Payne's Net Worth as of 2024
$25 Million
Constantine Alexander Payne is a film director, producer and screenwriter born on 10th February 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He is best known for critically acclaimed films such as “Election” (1999), “Sideways” (2004), “The Descendants” (2011) and “Nebraska” (2013). Alexander has won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay twice, and has been three times nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Have you ever wondered how rich Alexander Payne is? According to sources it has been estimated that Alexander’s overall net worth is $25 million. Payne has acquired his wealth through directing quality movies, which mostly concentrated on one character’s transformation during a certain life crisis. His films have brought him several prestigious awards, thus increasing his net worth. Since he is still active in the film industry, his net worth continues to grow.
Alexander Payne Net Worth $25 Million
Alexander Payne was born the youngest of three sons in a family of Greek and German descent. He went to Dundee Elementary School and while attending Creighton Preparatory for high school, Payne wrote a humor column for a school newspaper and was the edited school yearbook. In 1979 he enrolled at Stanford University where he studied history and Spanish and while studying the latter, he also attended Spain’s University of Salamanca. After graduating, Payne decided to go to the University of California, Los Angeles’ prestigious film school, in order to pursue his career as a director, finally attaining his M.F.A. degree in 1990.
A year later, Payne’s thesis film “The Passion of Martin”(1990) was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and gained industry attention. This led to his first feature film, the controversial comedy “Citizen Ruth” (1996), for which Payne also wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Jim Taylor. Once again using his teamwork with Taylor, Payne wrote the script for his 1999 film “Election”, starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, which brought him an Academy Award nomination. These provided a good start to his net worth.
Three years later, he received positive critiques once again, for “About Schmidt” (2002), a movie dealing with the topic of aging with Jack Nicholson in the lead role. However, Alexander earned his first Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 2005, for his comedy-drama film “Sideways”. A huge success, this film received five Academy Award nominations in total. During the next few years, Payne directed “Paris, Je T’Aime”(2006) and produced and wrote several films including: “I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry”(2007), “King of California”(2007) and “Savages”(2007). All these added steadily to his net worth.
Payne also worked on television, as an executive producer of the “Hung” series. In 2011, he directed another one of his most notable films, “The Descendants”, which brought him even greater recognition, a number of accolades and another Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His film-making talent dazzled once again with the release of his family dramatic comedy “Nebraska” in 2013, and brought him Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, as well as an Independent Spirits Award for Best First Screenplay.
Alexander was chosen as a member of the Main Competition’s Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and two years later, the Location Managers Guild of America honored him with the Eva Monley Award. Of course, his net worth continued to rise!
When it comes to his personal life, Payne was married to Korean-Canadian actress Sandra Oh for three years, before separating in 2006. He is on the Board of Directors of “Film Streams”, Omaha non-profit film theater and recently helped preserve a historic film theater in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Authors
Chuck Todd Net Worth
Charles David Todd was born on the 8th April 1972, in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a journalist and television presenter, currently the Political Director of the News Department of the largest broadcaster in USA – NBC and the correspondent of the company in the White House. Todd is also a political analyst for the news and talk morning television show “Today”, and daily evening television news program “NBC Nightly News”. Chuck Todd has been active in politics and journalism since the early 1990s.
How much is the net worth of Chuck Todd? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $3 million, as of the data given in mid-2017.
Chuck Todd Net Worth $3 Million
After schooling Todd studied Political Science at George Washington University, but which he left without a degree. In the early 1990s he worked for various political campaigns, including the presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin in 1992. From 1992 to 2007 Todd worked as the editor of The Hotline, a daily political newsletter, which is published by the Atlantic Media Company and is primarily intended for a small, non-public audience of staff of congressmen, journalists and other people in the political and media business directly engaged. As a result, he frequently appeared as an expert on political television programs including “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “Inside Politics” with Judy Woodruff. His net worth grew steadily.
At the beginning of 2007, Todd was brought to NBC, where he soon took over the position of Political Director of the Intelligence Department (NBC News). In this capacity he is responsible for the supervision and coordination of political reporting from NBC and its cable offshoot, the 24-hour news station MSNBC. As a correspondent of the White House since late 2008, and as a general analyst of political events, Todd regularly appears in the NBC News and in several consignments of MSNBC. In the morning program of MSNBC, Todd also works with Savannah Guthrie on the weekdays 9:00 to 10:00 in Eastern Time broadcast program “The Daily Rundown”, which is a mixture of domestic and foreign policy news of the day, as well as interviews and debates with guests. In addition, Todd frequently appears as the guest in shows such as “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “The Rachel Maddow Show”. After the sudden death of Tim Russert, Todd was his successor as host of the program “Meet the Press” which is considered the oldest political discussion program on USA television. Overall, all the above mentioned engagements have significantly increased the total size of Chuck Todd’s net worth as well as popularity.
Moreover, Chuch Todd is the author of several books. He published the book “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House” (2014), and he has also co-written “How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election”(2009) alongside Sheldon Gawiser.
Finally, in the personal life of Chuck Todd, he is married to Kristian Denny Todd; they have two children and currently the family resides in Arlington, Virginia.
Directors
Rob Cohen (Film director) Net Worth
Rob Cohen is a film director, producer and screenwriter, born on 12th March 1949 in Cornwall, New York State, USA. Some of his best-known projects include films such as “XXX”, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, “Dragonheart” and “The Fast and the Furious” franchise.
Have you ever wondered how rich Rob Cohen is? According to sources it has been estimated that Rob Cohen’s overall net worth is $20 million, as of late 2017, accumulated through a successful career in the entertainment industry, which started in the mid ‘70s. Since he is still very active in all the fields of his career, his net worth continues to grow.
Rob Cohen Net Worth $20 Million
Cohen studied anthropology and visual studies at Harvard University, and graduated magna cum laude. His senior thesis was inspired by his first filmmaking endeavor – a project for Harvard’s Admissions Office in 1970. After finishing his studies, he traveled to Los Angeles to work for Martin Jurow as a screenwriter, but as the plan failed he found himself unemployed. Several months later he found a job as a reader for agent Mike Medavoy and six months into his tenure at International Famous Agency he discovered an unheralded script in some neglected screenplays.
He decided to write a cover of it, although he was threatened with losing his job, however, Universal bought it for a record price and it became the Academy Award winning movie “The Sting” (1973). That same year 20th Century Fox Television hired him as Head of Current Programming to help out with the first year of “M*A*S*H”, perhaps the most popular series of all time, and so he eventually advanced to the title of Vice President of TV Movies. His net worth was now firmly established.
After meeting record label founder Berry Gordy who was trying to bring his company Motown into the film business, Rob was hired as the Executive Vice President of Motown’s motion picture division. His first idea for a Motown movie about African American Super Models – “Mahogany” – was sold to Paramount and filmed in Chicago and Rome. He also adapted Bill Brashler’s novel “The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings” into a movie. Cohen left Motown in 1978 and went to produce and direct TV series and films including “Miami Vice”, “Ironweed”, “The Wiz” etc. He started directing full-time from 1990, and many of his early efforts achieved considerable success, including “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, “Daylight”, “Dragonheart” and “The Rat Pack” which won a Golden Globe award. In 2001 he directed probably his most commercially successful movie – “The Fast and The Furious” – which opened with $40 million at the box office in its first weekend, and starred Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. Cohen and Diesel teamed up again to make “XXX” and the later sequels of “The Fast and The Furious”. Some of his most recent films include “The Boy Next Door” (2015) starring Jennifer Lopez, and “The Hurricane Heist” a movie which he wrote and directed and is set for release in 2018.
Privately, Rob has residencies in Bali, Indonesia and Los Angeles, and is an avid surfer. He has four children from three marriages. His first wife is unknown, and his second was Diane Mitzner to whom he was married for a year in the mid ‘80s. Since March 2006, Cohen has been married to Barbara Cashulin.
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