The 2025 New York Shorts International Film Festival opened with two-time Academy Award® nominee Richard Gladstein recently directed documentary short film Filmology.
Gladstein’s films have received 27 Academy Award® nominations.
Gladstein is a frequent collaborator of Quentin Tarantino, as producer of the 70mm western The Hateful Eight and executive producer of Tarantino’s first three films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Gladstein’s two Academy Award® nominations for ‘Best Picture of the Year’ were for producing The Cider House Rules and Finding Neverland. His other produced films include; The Bourne Identity, She’s All That, The Time Being (he also co-wrote the screenplay), Paper Man, Killshot, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, The Nanny Diaries, The Crossing Guard, 54 and Hurlyburly, among others.



