Edward Norton has been nominated three Academy Awards, Supporting Actor for Primal Fear (1996), Best Actor for American History X (1998), and Supporting Actor for Birdman (2014).
He played in The Painted Veil the role of Walter Fane and he is also one of the film’s producers.
Norton has starred in the films Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs Larry Flynt, American History X, Rounders, Fight Club, Keeping the Faith, The Score, Death to Smoochy, Red Dragon, The 25th Hour, The Italian Job, Down in the Valley and The Illusionist.
He has Golden Globes along with numerous other awards for his performances.
The film Frida, for which he wrote an uncredited screenplay, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two.
In 2003, Norton won the Obie Award in for his performance Off-Broadway in Burn This, by Lanford Wilson.
He produced and directed the film Keeping the Faith, produced Down in the Valley (Cannes Film Festival selection) and is currently producing five other films including Dan OBriens Buffalo for the Broken Heart and Jonathan Lethems Motherless Brooklyn for which he is currently writing the screenplay. His most recent film, Pride & Glory, co-stars Colin Farrell and Jon Voight, and will be released in 2007.
Norton also founded and runs Class 5 Films in partnership with his brother Jim Norton, writer Stuart Blumberg and producer Bill Migliore. They recently announced a partnership with Brad Pitts Plan B and National Geographic to produce an epic 10-part series for HBO based on Stephen Ambroses acclaimed book Undaunted Courage about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Norton and Pitt will executive produce the series. The Painted Veil is Class 5s second major film release this year.
Class 5s documentary productions include: The Great Rivers Expedition, a film for the Outdoor Life Network about an historic whitewater adventure that took place in China in 2003; and Dirty Work, a film by David Sampliner that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel last spring. Class 5 also collaborated with the Sea Studios Foundation on their highly acclaimed, multi-million dollar series about earth system sciences for National Geographic, Strange Days on Planet Earth, which Norton hosts and narrates, and which aired on PBS last year. Class 5 is currently producing a film about Senator Barak Obama.
Norton is a committed social and environmental activist as well as being a major financial supporter of the Nature Conservancys Yunnan Great Rivers conservation project, the Grand Canyon Trust, EarthJustice, the Wilderness Society, the Southern Center for Human Rights, American Museum of Natural History, Credit Where Credit is Due, the American Visionary Arts Museum and the Johns Hopkins Neuro-oncology Research Lab.
He founded and runs Class 5 Films, in partnership with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stuart Blumberg and producer Bill Migliore. Class 5’s first two features, David Jacobson’s Down in the Valley and John Curran’s The Painted Veil, were released in 2006. Class 5 more recently produced Leaves of Grass, written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson; and Mr. Blumberg’s directorial debut, Thanks for Sharing. The company is developing adaptations of Dan O’Brien’s Buffalo for the Broken Heart and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, for which Mr. Norton is writing the screenplay.
Class 5’s most recent documentary, By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams. Airing on HBO in November 2009, it won an Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
Class 5’s other documentaries include Jim Norton’s The Great Rivers Expedition and David Sampliner’s Dirty Work; the latter premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel. Class 5 also collaborated with the Sea Studios Foundation on their highly acclaimed, multi-million dollar series about earth system sciences for National Geographic, Strange Days on Planet Earth, which Edward Norton hosted and narrated, and which premiered on PBS in April 2008.
Class 5 is currently working in partnership with Brad Pitt’s Plan B and National Geographic to produce an epic miniseries for HBO based on Stephen Ambrose’s acclaimed book Undaunted Courage, about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Norton and Pitt will executive-produce the miniseries.
