Michael Sugar

Michael Sugar is a producer and the CEO and Founder of Sugar23 - a management and production company with a multi-year deal with Netflix. He was awarded the Oscar® for Best Picture for “Spotlight.” He has produced a number of series and features, including “The Laundromat,” “Dickinson,” “Maniac,” “I Am The Night,” “The Report,” “The OA,” “The Knick,” and the hit Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.” He is currently in production on “The Turning Point.” The company represents an impressive roster of literary and talent clients in addition to their producorial duties. Sugar is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Producer’s Guild of America, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and lectures regularly at USC, NYU, Columbia, and the American Film Institute. He has been nominated for multiple Emmys and Golden Globes, has received two Television Academy Honors, two AFI awards, and two Peabody Awards.