Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe award winners, CRAIG ZADAN and NEIL MERON (Producers) are the producers of critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films and television projects. In total, their films have garnered six Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, eleven Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards.

Zadan and Meron were producers of this summer's hit film “Hairspray,” which had the biggest opening weekend for a movie musical in motion picture history and is one of the best reviewed movies of the year.

Although they have demonstrated their enviable “Midas Touch” in the musical genre, Zadan and Meron’s roster icludes diverse projects.

“The Bucket List”, a feature film for Warner Bros. starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, directed by Rob Reiner opens nationally on January 11th. “The Bucket List” is one of the National Board of Review’s top ten films of the year.

Previously, their film “Chicago,” which they executive produced, earned 13 Oscar nominations, winning six, including one for Best Picture; seven Golden Globe Award nominations, winning three, including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. It also won two BAFTA Awards, three SAG awards, the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Picture, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for Rob Marshall, a Grammy for Best Soundtrack, and was chosen by the Broadcast Film Critics Association as the Best Motion Picture of the Year. “Chicago” was the highest-grossing movie in Miramax’s history and the first musical in 34 years to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Their television adaptation of the musical “The Music Man,” starring Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth, aired to acclaim. It earned five Emmy nominations and earned director Jeff Bleckner a DGA Award.

The television biopic “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” was a critical and ratings success, topping many Ten Best lists and becoming the highest-rated movie or miniseries of that year. It earned 13 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries, and won five, including one for Judy Davis’ portrayal of Judy Garland. Davis also won a Golden Globe Award, and the project was also Golden Globe nominated for outstanding Miniseries. Additionally, it won the Television Critics Association Award, two Broadcast Film Critics Awards, a SAG Award, an AFI Award, and the Prism Award, as well as numerous other awards and nominations.

Their production of “The Beach Boys: An American Family” was nominated for three Emmys, including Best Miniseries, and Jeff Bleckner won a DGA Award for the miniseries.

Zadan and Meron executive produced a new version of “Annie,” starring Kathy Bates, which won two Emmys, the Peabody Award and the TV Guide Award for Favorite TV Movie or Miniseries. It was nominated for 12 Emmys including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. The musical also marked the directorial debut of Rob Marshall, who received an Emmy nomination for Best Director, won an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography and received a DGA nomination.

Their production of “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” which starred Whitney Houston, Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Alexander and Bernadette Peters, garnered seven Emmy nominations.

Their first television musical event, “Gypsy," was a three-hour CBS movie musical starring Bette Midler. A ratings and critical triumph, the show was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie (the first such nomination for a film musical in the Academy’s history), and three Golden Globes, including Best Telefilm, as well as Producers Guild, Directors Guild and CableACE Award nominations.

Zadan and Meron produced “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story.” The film received six Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Television Movie, and won three: Best Actress for Glenn Close, Best Supporting Actress for Judy Davis and Best Screenplay for Alison Cross. Additionally, it was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Movie, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress; was nominated for awards from the Producers Guild, Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild, and won the coveted National Education Association Award for the Advancement of Learning Through Broadcasting. The producers also won the prestigious Peabody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Broadcasting and were the recipients of the Lambda Liberty Award as well as the GLAAD Media Award.

They previously executive produced the WB feature film comedy “My Fellow Americans,” starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner.

Zadan’s first feature film production, “Footloose,” starring Kevin Bacon, received two Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, and a Grammy nomination for Best Soundtrack Album.

Zadan and Meron's next project is a new movie adaptation of “A Raisin in the Sun,” based on Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play, starring Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan, which will air on ABC on Feb 25, 2008, the night after ABC's airing of the Oscars. Their next feature film will be Frank Darabont's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" which Darabont will also direct.