Credits:
Executive Producer, WAYNE’S WORLD, Producer, KEEPING THE FAITH

HAWK KOCH, the former President of the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and President of the Producers Guild of America, is a veteran movie producer who has been intimately involved with the making of more than 60 major motion pictures.

Among them, such classics as Marathon Man, Chinatown, Wayne’s World, Peggy Sue Got Married, Heaven Can Wait, and Rosemary’s Baby.

At the Producers’ Guild, Koch and his co-president, Mark Gordon, led the fight to preserve the producer’s credit and restore its value to all working producers. In 2013, they were able to secure all the major studios and major independents to agree to uphold the Producer’s Mark which unified the industry in a way that further reinforced the timeliness and significance of the ‘Mark’. The rules put in place by “The Producer’s Mark” now apply to the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild Awards and the BAFTA Awards. Now, only the producers that do the work and get the Producer’s Mark are eligible for these distinguished honors. We changed the culture!

Koch’s tenure at the Academy included spearheading several initiatives including launching the first ever ‘town hall’ member meeting, a sharpened focus on both member engagement, diversity and the future of filmmaking. In addition, Hawk was instrumental in fundraising for the new The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Museum, currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2021.

Hawk’s memoir “Magic Time My Life in Hollywood “was published in November 2019.

His colleagues and collaborators include many of the greatest filmmakers of all-time–Sidney Pollack, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger, Robert Benton, Warren Beatty, and Francis Coppola. In addition to his duties as a full-time producer, Hawk also serves on the boards of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, AMC Entertainment, Cast & Crew, and the National Film Preservation Foundation.

He lives in Ojai, California with his lovely wife Molly, he has three children and five grandsons.