Peter Spears

Peter Spears is the Oscar winning producer of NOMADLAND. Based on the book by Jessica Bruder, the film from Searchlight also won the Oscars for director Chloé Zhao and star Frances McDormand, and won the Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, BAFTA, PGA, Venice Golden Lion, and Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture. Spears produced Luca Guadagnino’s film CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, based on the book by Andre Aciman, for which he was also nominated for the Oscar in 2017. The film was written by James Ivory, who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Spears also produced the MGM feature BONES AND ALL, reuniting with Guadagnino and star Timothée Chalamet, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Spears’ film DRIFT, directed by Anthony Chen and starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. He worked with Guadagnino again on QUEER, starring Daniel Craig. His most recent  film, ON SWIFT HORSES with director Daniel Minahan, starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Jacob Elordi and Diego Calva premiered at TIFF last year and was released by Sony Pictures Classics around the world in April of this year.