William Horberg is the founder of Wonderful Films, an independent film and television production company. He recently produced The Burnt Orange Heresy; Flag Day; The Queen’s Gambit; The Promise; Crash Pad; and Black Nativity. His other productions include Disconnect; Therese Raquin; The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman; and Death At A Funeral for Columbia Screen Gems.

Previously, Horberg was the President of Production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. During Horberg’s tenure there, SKE, in association with Universal Pictures, financed Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass’; critically acclaimed United 93, as well as executive-produced Billy Ray’s Breach. The company’s other productions, which Horberg executive-produced, include Kasi Lemmons’ Talk to Me; Frank Oz’s Audience Award-winning Death at a Funeral; Jon Poll’s Charlie Bartlett; Ira Sachs’ Married Life; Craig Gillespie’s Lars and the Real Girl; and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. Additionally, Horberg served as an executive producer on Greg Mottola’s Adventureland and Stephen Belber’s Management. Horberg was also an executive producer on Focus Features’ Milk, starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn and directed by Gus Van Sant. He was also the producer of Marc Forster’s The Kite Runner based on the international best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, for Dreamworks and Paramount Vantage. Prior to forming Wonderful, he was partnered for 12 years with Academy Award-winning filmmakers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella in their film and television production company, Mirage Enterprises. During Horberg’s tenure at Mirage, he produced such films as Mr. Minghella’s Cold Mountain; The Talented Mr. Ripley; Phillip Noyce’s The Quiet American; Tom Tykwer’s Heaven; Peter Howitt’s Sliding Doors; and Steven Zaillian’s Searching for Bobby Fischer. Horberg was formerly a Senior Vice President of Production at Paramount Pictures. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America, East.

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