STEVE NICOLAIDES was born in Los Angeles in December, 1948. !Starting from the ground up, he worked in Saturday morning kids programing, graduallygaining experience to become a member of the DGA as a production manager. Assuch, he managed nearly twenty movies-of-the-week, including Emmy-nominated films“Roe v. Wade”, “Berlin Tunnel 21”, “Will There Really Be a Morning”, “The Ordeal ofPatty Hearst”, and “Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story”.! !In 1984 he met director Rob Reiner and began a working relationship that included thefilms “The Sure Thing”, “Stand By Me”, “The Princess Bride”, “When Harry Met Sally”,“Misery”, and “A Few Good Men”.

In 1991 he produced John Singleton’s Academy Award-nominated “Boyz N The Hood”,and went on to work with John on “Poetic Justice” and “Shaft”.

Throughout the nineties and the 2000s he produced a number of box-office and criticalsuccesses, including “The Forgotten”, “The School of Rock”, “Nacho Libre”, “Buddy”,“Little Big League”, “The Deep End of the Ocean”, and finally “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”!