Producing Academy Award Winning Movies with Steve Starkey | Ep. 002

On this week’s episode I am joined by academy award winning movie producer, Steve Starkey. Starkey, who always teams up with director Robert Zemeckis, has produced films such as: Allied, The Walk, Flight, The Polar Express, Cast Away, and Contact. In 1995 he won an Academy Award for Best Picture with Forrest Gump. Early in his career, Starkey was an associate producer and assistant editor on Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and a couple of indie films called Star Wars Return of the Jedi and Empire Strikes Back. In this conversation, Starkey and I talk about his path into filmmaking and what storytelling strategies he uses to produce some of the greatest movies of our time.