Andrew Scheinman

ANDREW SCHEINMAN graduated from the University of Virginia, where he was captain of the tennis team, in 1970. He graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1973. In 1979, along with Martin Shafer, he produced his first film, The Mountain Men. Other producer credits followed, including The Awakening, Mother Lode, Modern Romance, and the Rob Reiner-directed features The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, and the beloved classic The Princess Bride, written by two-time Oscar winner William Goldman.

In 1987, Scheinman, along with partners Alan Horn, Glenn Padnick, Rob Reiner and Martin Shafer, founded Castle Rock Entertainment. Under the Castle Rock banner, Scheinman and director Reiner produced When Harry Met Sally…, Misery and A Few Good Men. When Harry Met Sally… earned over $93 million at the domestic box office and garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay; Misery earned a Best Actress Academy Award for Kathy Bates; and A Few Good Men was Oscar-nominated for Best Motion Picture of 1992.

Scheinman was actively involved in Castle Rock’s television arm, having co-written and co-produced several of the company’s television pilots. For the first four seasons of its run, he was an executive producer of the hit comedy series “Seinfeld,” winner of many Emmy Awards, including Best Comedy Series.

Scheinman directed the feature Little Big League, which was released in the summer of 1994. That same year he also executive-produced and co-wrote North, directed by Rob Reiner, and produced Reiner’s Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996. In recent years, Scheinman has worked creatively on numerous in-house projects at Castle Rock, such as Miss Congeniality and Two Weeks’ Notice, co-writing the Castle Rock feature Bait.

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