Dede Gardner

Dorcas Wright "Dede" Gardner (born October 16, 1967) is an American film producer.

She graduated cum laude from Columbia University in 1990.

Her classmates included television showrunners Jeff Rake and Gina Fattore.

Her father is a partner at the Chicago investment bank William Blair & Company; her mother is president of the Michael Reese Health Trust.

In 2000, she married Jonathan Boris Berg in an Episcopalian ceremony on Martha's Vineyard.

She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

In 2012, Gardner and her fellow producers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Tree of Life.

She was president since the founding of Plan B Entertainment and currently serving as Co-President with Jeremy Kleiner since 2013.

She is a two-time Oscar winner for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, the first woman to win two Oscars for Best Picture.

Her films Selma, The Tree of Life, The Big Short, Vice, Minari and Women Talking were additionally nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

She is the daughter of Dorothy and John Gardner, of Winnetka, Illinois.

In 2014, she won the Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie 12 Years a Slave alongside co-producers Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Kleiner and Anthony Katagas.

In 2015, she was nominated once again for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Selma alongside fellow producers Oprah Winfrey, Jeremy Kleiner, and Christian Colson.

In 2017, she won her second Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie, Moonlight.

She becomes the first female producer to win two Academy Awards for Best Picture.