Ron Howard

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed Oscar-winning dramas A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Past films include the Grammy-winning Best Music Film The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, Pavarotti, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rush, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, Ransom, and Backdraft, just to name a few. Howard has also served as an executive producer on a number of award-winning television shows, such as the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, the Emmy-winning series Arrested Development, and NatGeo’s award-winning anthology series Genius. Currently, Howard is working on the film adaptation of the NY Times best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams; Thirteen Lives about the rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand; and a documentary about renowned chef José Andrés and his World Central Kitchen. He also directed the 2020 documentary Rebuilding Paradise. Howard co-founded Imagine Impact to discover, cultivate and empower creative storytellers around the world through a modern development system that helps them create their best work from inception to market. In under a year, Impact built a community of 23,000 writers across 80+ countries, developed 61 projects, and set up and/or sold 27 projects – creating a diverse portfolio of projects across genres, formats, and geographies that Impact has a stake in. Impact also launched a proprietary mobile/web platform to directly connect the people who get creative projects made – writers, producers, showrunners and buyers. Howard and his longtime friend and business partner Brian Grazer founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986, which they continue to run together as chairmen.