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Peter Spears

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Peter Spears

Born November 29, 1965 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA11 films

Peter Spears (born November 29, 1965) is an American actor and filmmaker. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Overland Park, Kansas. Spears is best known for winning an Oscar for producing Nomadland (2020), and for producing film Call Me by Your Name (2017). He directed the underground cult-favorite short film Ernest and Bertram, which portrayed Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie as gay lovers, and developed the television series Nightmare Cafe and John from Cincinnati.

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Call Me by Your Name posterFirst watchCall Me by Your Name20178.1In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman…View film

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Filmography

11 films
  1. TBAMike Nichols: A LifeProducer
  2. TBALeading MenProducer
  3. TBAThe Fredy Hirsch StoryProducer
  4. TBAOn Earth We're Briefly GorgeousProducer
  5. 2025On Swift HorsesProducer
  6. 2024QueerExecutive Producer
  7. 2024DriftProducer
  8. 2022Bones and AllProducer
  9. 2021NomadlandProducer
  10. 2017Call Me by Your NameProducer
  11. 2014Until We CouldProducer