James W. Skotchdopole

James W. Skotchdopole is an American film producer. He has produced films such as Birdman and The Revenant.

Career

Raised in New York, Skotchdopole career in the film industry began in 1982. In 1984, Skotchdopole became the youngest member to be accepted into the Directors Guild of America. Skotchdopole served as an Executive producer on four of Director Tony Scott's films, and collaborated with Nora Ephron three times. He also worked as an Executive producer with Quentin Tarantino twice, on Death Proof and Django Unchained.^[1] As a producer on Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, Skotchdopole won an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards.^[2] Iñárritu and Skotchdopole collaborated again in 2015 with The Revenant.

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1990	Naked Tango	Associate producer
1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Associate producer
1993	True Romance	Co-producer
1994	Mixed Nuts	Executive producer
1995	Crimson Tide	Associate producer
1996	The Fan	Executive producer
1998	Enemy of the State	Executive producer
2000	Company Man
2000	Sand
2001	Spy Game	Executive producer
2004	Man on Fire	Executive producer
2005	Bewitched	Executive producer
2007	Grindhouse	Line producer
2007	Death Proof	Line producer
2008	The Women	Executive producer
2008	Surfer, Dude	Executive producer
2010	My Own Love Song	Executive producer
2011	Violet & Daisy	Executive producer
2012	Lay the Favorite	Executive producer
	Upside Down	Executive producer
	Django Unchained	Executive producer
2014	Birdman		Won Academy Award for Best Picture.^[2]
2015	Accidental Love	Executive producer
2015	The Revenant
2017	War Machine	Executive producer
2018	Furlough	Executive producer
2021	Crisis	Co-executive producer
TBA	The Joy Division

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1985	Turk 182	Second assistant director
1985	A Chorus Line
1986	The Money Pit
1986	Brighton Beach Memoirs
1987	Mannequin
	Ishtar
	The Untouchables
	The Believers	Second assistant director: New York
1988	Biloxi Blues	Second assistant director
	Moon over Parador
	Scrooged
1989	Dead Bang
1990	Revenge
1990	Days of Thunder	First assistant director
1991	What About Bob?
1991	The Last Boy Scout
1992	Housesitter
1993	Sleepless in Seattle
1993	True Romance
1994	Mixed Nuts	First assistant director Second unit director	Uncredited
1995	Crimson Tide	First assistant director
1996	The Fan	First assistant director
1998	Enemy of the State	Second unit director	Uncredited
2000	Sand	Second assistant director
2001	Spy Game	Second unit director	Uncredited
2005	Bewitched
2008	The Women

Year	Film	Role
2001	Spy Game	Unit production manager: Morocco
2012	Lay the Favorite	Unit production manager
2012	Django Unchained
2014	Birdman
2015	The Revenant

Year	Film	Role
2013	The Spectacular Now	The producers wish to thank
2016	The Comedian	The producers wish to thank the following for their assistance

Year	Title	Role
2020	Mrs. America	Unit production manager

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	A Doctor's Story	Production assistant	Television film