Michael Sugar

Michael Sugar is the CEO and Founder of Sugar23 - a management, production and private equity company – after a long stint at Anonymous Content where he was a partner for many years. He was awarded the Oscar® for Best Picture for “Spotlight,” starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, and Rachel McAdams.

Sugar’s recent Executive Producer credits include MSNBC’s docuseries “The Turning Point,” “Knox Goes Away,” a feature film starring and directed by Michael Keaton, and the Apple TV+ series “Dickinson,” starring Hailee Steinfeld and Jane Krakowski. Over the course of the latter’s three seasons, the series garnered a Peabody Award, a Golden Tomato Award, and numerous nominations. Prior Executive Producer credits include the high-profile Netflix series “Maniac,” with Cary Fukunaga directing and Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, and Justin Theroux starring; the Netflix feature “The Laundromat” directed by client Steven Soderbergh and starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas; “I Am The Night” at TNT with Chris Pine starring and Patty Jenkins directing; “The Report,” directed by Scott Z. Burns and starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm for Amazon; the Netflix series “The OA,” co-created by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, who also stars; and the hit Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” created by Brian Yorkey and directed by Tom McCarthy. Sugar also Executive Produced Cinemax’s critically acclaimed drama series “The Knick,” starring Clive Owen and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Sugar represents an impressive roster of literary and talent clients in addition to his producorial duties. He joined Anonymous Content in the summer of 2005, and helped lead the company to a substantial investment transaction with Emerson Collective. 

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, and has received two Television Academy Honors, two AFI awards, and two Peabody Awards.