Robert W. Cort is an American film producer. Since 1985 he has produced forty-eight feature films which have grossed over 2.5 billion dollars in worldwide box office. These include Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumanji, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, The Cutting Edge, Against the Ropes, Runaway Bride, and Save the Last Dance.Cort also produced Mr. Holland's Opus and currently serves on the board of directors for The Mr. Holland's Opus FoundationCort’s HBO film, Something the Lord Made, won three Emmy Awards, including the 2004 Outstanding Film Made for Television. The film also won the American Film Institute Award, the Director's and Writer's Guild Awards, the Christopher, NAACP Image Award and the prestigious Peabody Award.His other television films have also won multiple honors, including the 1990 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program for A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story.His most recent production, the family drama Im Winter ein Jahr (English Title: A Year Ago in Winter), won the Silver Lola for Best Picture at the 2009 German Academy Awards.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Nominations
Producers Guild of America Award - David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television
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Fact
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Cort was an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1970s, an appropriate background for his latest cable-TV movie shot with CIA cooperation, In the Company of Spies (1999).
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Boys
1996
executive producer
The Arrival
1996
executive producer
Two Much
1996
executive producer
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
producer
Jumanji
1995
executive producer
The Tie That Binds
1995
executive producer
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
executive producer
Body Language
1995
TV Movie executive producer
Separate Lives
1995
executive producer
Roommates
1995
producer
Imaginary Crimes
1994
executive producer
Terminal Velocity
1994
executive producer
A Part of the Family
1994
TV Movie executive producer
Holy Matrimony
1994
executive producer
The Air Up There
1994
producer
Out on a Limb
1992
executive producer
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
executive producer
Jersey Girl
1992
executive producer
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992
executive producer
The Cutting Edge
1992
producer
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
executive producer
Paradise
1991
executive producer
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991
executive producer
Class Action
1991
producer
Eve of Destruction
1991
executive producer
3 Men and a Little Lady
1990
producer
A Gnome Named Gnorm
1990
producer
Arachnophobia
1990
co-executive producer
Bird on a Wire
1990
executive producer
The First Power
1990
executive producer
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989
TV Movie executive producer
An Innocent Man
1989
producer
Blind Fury
1989
executive producer
Renegades
1989
executive producer
Collision Course
1989
producer
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1989
executive producer
Cocktail
1988
producer
The Seventh Sign
1988
producer
3 Men and a Baby
1987
producer
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
1987
producer - as Robert Cort
Outrageous Fortune
1987
producer
Critical Condition
1987
producer - as Robert Cort
Turk 182!
1985
executive producer
Make Your Move
2013
producer
Im Winter ein Jahr
2008
executive producer
Save the Last Dance 2
2006
Video executive producer
Something the Lord Made
2004
TV Movie executive producer
Against the Ropes
2004
producer
The Rats
2002
TV Movie executive producer
Save the Last Dance
2002
TV Movie producer
Save the Last Dance
2001
producer
Harlan County War
2000
TV Movie executive producer
In the Company of Spies
1999
TV Movie producer
Runaway Bride
1999
producer
The Out-of-Towners
1999
producer - as Robert Cort
The Odd Couple II
1998
producer
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
1997
executive producer
The Associate
1996
executive producer
Kazaam
1996
executive producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Call
2013/II
special thanks - as Robert Cort
Out of the Shadows
2011
Video short mentor
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
2004
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Made for Television Movie