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Nancy Utley:

Fox Searchlight

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Nancy Utley was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2006 charged with jointly managing all aspects of the company including production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution alongside fellow Chief Operating Officer Stephen Gilula and President Peter Rice. Since 1999 when she was named President of Marketing for Fox Searchlight Pictures, Ms. Utley has overseen the marketing of some of Fox Searchlight's most successful films to date including the Academy Award®-winning Sideways, which won the 2005 Oscar® for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for four additional Oscars including Best Picture, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You For Smoking, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, 28 Days Later, The Hills Have Eyes, Bend It Like Beckham, In America, Antwone Fisher, One Hour Photo, The Good Girl, The Deep End and Sexy Beast. Prior to Fox Searchlight, Ms. Utley had worked since 1985 in a variety of capacities for Twentieth Century Fox including most recently Executive Vice President of Marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Film. In that role, she oversaw all aspects of media, research and publicity and promotion for Twentieth Century Fox's theatrical releases. She also held posts as Vice President of Media, Senior Vice President of Media and Research, and Executive Vice President of Marketing, Media and Research. During her tenure at Twentieth Century Fox, she worked on such films as Independence Day, There's Something About Mary, The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, Speed, Dr. Doolittle, The X-Files, the Diehard series, Mrs. Doubtfire, Waiting to Exhale, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Entrapment. Ms. Utley came to Twentieth Century Fox from BBDO where she was Senior Vice President of New Business. Beginning her career at Grey Advertising in New York as an Assistant Media Director, she left eight years later as Vice President, Associate Media Director. Utley holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University.

 

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