Bruce Cohen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bruce Cohen is an American film producer. Cohen and his producing partner, Dan Jinks, run The Jinks/ Cohen Company. Cohen and Jinks produced American Beauty, winner of the 1999 Academy Award for Best Picture. Among other films that Cohen has produced are The Forgotten, Big Fish, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and most recently, Milk, his second Best Picture nomination.

In 2009, Cohen wore a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony as a show of support for the marriage equality movement. Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Cohen married his partner of five years, Gabriel Catone, on June 30, 2008, in a ceremony officiated by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at Los Angeles City Hall.

In December 2010, Cohen and actress Anne Hathaway went to Staten Island as surprise guests to a performance of the PS 22 Chorus, to invite them to the 83rd Academy Awards in February. They also announced that the Chorus will be performing in the awards ceremony. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.