Kevin Feige

Feige was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Maralyn and Tim Feige.^[1][4][5] He moved to New Jersey at the age of eight and lived there until the age of eighteen,^[6] when he graduated from Westfield High School.^[7] His maternal grandfather, Robert E. Short, was a television producer in the 1950s, working on soap operas including The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.^[8][9][10]

After high school, Feige attended the University of Southern California, the alma mater of his favorite directors: George Lucas, Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis. His first five applications to the USC School of Cinematic Arts were rejected, but he was accepted on the sixth.^[9] He graduated in 1995 with a degree in film,^[11] receiving an honorary doctorate in 2023.^[12]

His early work includes being assistant to executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner on Volcano and You've Got Mail. In 2000, he was hired by Marvel as a producer.^[9] On the first X-Men film, Donner made Feige an associate producer due to his knowledge of the Marvel Universe.^[4] Impressing Avi Arad, he was hired to work as his second-in-command at Marvel Studios that same year.^[13] In the mid-2000s, Feige realized that although Spider-Man, Blade, and the X-Men had been licensed to Sony, New Line Cinema, and 20th Century Fox, Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the Avengers, and envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s.^[14] Feige was named president of production for Marvel Studios in March 2007.^[2]

Feige received the Motion Picture Showman of the Year award at the ICG Publicists Guild Awards on February 22, 2013.^[15] For his work on Black Panther, Feige received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Producers Guild of America Award.^[16] Feige was awarded the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures by the Producers Guild of America in 2019.^[17] In September 2019, it was reported that Feige was developing a Star Wars film for Lucasfilm,^[18] which was no longer in active development by March 2023.^[19] In October 2019, Feige, in addition to being president of Marvel Studios, was named chief creative officer for Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Marvel Television, and Marvel Animation.^[20]

Feige married Caitlin, a cardiothoracic nurse,^[21] around 2007.^[6] They have two children: a daughter Ella born in 2009, and son Erik born in 2012.^[22][6]

Film

Television

Shorts

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