Franklin Leonard
United StatesentrepreneurMale7.0Global Dominance: 0.01%Franklin Leonard is a prominent film industry executive and the founder of the Black List, an annual survey that highlights the most popular unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, playing a pivotal role in supporting and promoting diverse voices in cinema.
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Franklin Leonard is a film producer who selected an image for the project.
If Emmett Till had lived, what might he have seen?CNN·United States· 2026-07-25
United States· 2026-07-25
Franklin Leonard commented on the significance of the story of survival and triumph over enslavement.
‘Scourged Back’ exposed the horror of slavery. Now it’s embroiled in America’s censorship debateCNN·United States· 2025-09-19
United States· 2025-09-19
Redford became, as the Black List founder Franklin Leonard put it on X, 'arguably the film industry’s most consequential American over the last fifty years'.
American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford | Robert RedfordThe Guardian·
United Kingdom· 2025-09-17
United Kingdom· 2025-09-17
