Tom Bernard

Tom Bernard is the Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics (with Michael Barker) since January 1992. Sony Pictures Classics distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from the United States and around the world. Over the past 25 years, he has worked with many of the world's finest independent filmmakers including Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Hector Babenco, Ingmar Bergman, Frances Coppola, David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro, James Ivory, Merchant Ivory, Jim Jarmusch, Norman Jewison, Neil LaBute, Ang Lee, Richard Linklater, Louise Malle, David Mamet, Errol Morris, Wim Wenders, and Zhang Yimou. Honors bestowed on Bernard's films include 25 Academy Awards and 101 Academy Award nominations, including three for Best Picture (Howard's End, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Capote) as well as ten Opening Night Presentations at the New York Film Festival. He has also received the Honors Award from the Directors Guild of America, France's Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters from the French Minister of Culture, the GLAAD Media Award, a retrospective at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the Gotham Industry Lifetime Achievement Award from the IFP, and the FINDIE Spirit Award. Bernard is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Sundance Advisory Board, the Tribeca Film Festival Advisory Board and the Monmouth University Communication Board. Bernard has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland at College Park.