A Life in Movies

A
rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky,
and Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in
Hollywood over half a century

The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career
is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging
Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and
The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy
Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve.
In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler
tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then
as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past
decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his
first film—starring Elvis—in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning
in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, he produced a string of
provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically
lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era.
This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it
means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts,
casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards.Filled
with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and
forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes readers behind the
scenes and into the history of Hollywood.