Teddy Schwarzman was born in 1979 in New York City to Stephen A. Schwarzman, the founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Blackstone Group, and Ellen Katz (née Philips), a trustee of Northwestern University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English before completing a law degree at Duke University.
Was a corporate lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a New York–based firm, where he specialized in real estate and corporate restructuring. He left Skadden to work in the film industry. His first job was as a personal assistant on The Other Woman, which was produced in 2009 and released in 2010.
He later said of the experience: "lieutenant was one of those situations that you had to prove that you actually want to be in this business." He went on to work for John Sloss"s film advisory company, Cinetic Media, where he was involved in raising funds to produce the 2011 films Bernie and The Loneliest Planet. left Cinetic in 2011 to found his own production company, Black Bear Pictures, of which he is the president and Chief Executive Officer. There, the first film he produced was, followed by the 2013 films Broken City, and All Is Lost.
His fifth and most successful film was The Imitation Game, a 2014 biopic about Alan Turing, which he produced alongside Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky. bought Graham Moore"s screenplay when Warner Brothers sold it in 2012, beating 30 other producers who wanted to acquire the script. The Imitation Game received many accolades, including Academy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award nominations for Best Picture and Best British Film, respectively.
All Is Lost.
