Joe Roth is an independent film producer whose last film, Alice in Wonderland, by earning more than $1 billion at the box office, became the tenth highest-grossing film of all time.
Over the past 35 years, Roth founded both Morgan Creek and Revolution Studios, was chairman of 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney Studios and directed six films, while producing or supervising more than 300 movies. Megahits Home Alone and The Sixth Sense, as well as Academy Award®-nominated films, including The Insider and Black Hawk Down, were made on his watch. He also produced the Emmy-nominated 2004 Academy Awards® telecast.
Roth is the majority owner of the Seattle Sounders Football Club. The most successful team in America’s soccer history, the Sounders were awarded 2010 Professional Sports Team of the Year in all sports by the SportsBusiness Journal.
Noted equally for his diverse civic and for his charitable activities, Roth has received various awards such as the 1991 Variety Club’s Man of the Year Award, the 1996 Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community & Justice and the 1997 Museum of the Moving Image Award, and he was honored in 1998 by AIDS Project Los Angeles and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee.
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