Biography
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director. He began his career in the late 1960s after working as an agent, forming a production partnership with Robert Chartoff. Their early credits include Double Trouble (1967) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).
Winkler produced Rocky (1976), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and received further Best Picture nominations for Raging Bull (1980), The Right Stuff (1983) and GoodFellas (1990). He has maintained a long collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on films including Raging Bull, GoodFellas, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Silence (2016) and The Irishman (2019). Winkler has also produced entries in the Rocky and Creed franchises, including Creed III (2023).
He studied at New York University and is the father of producers Charles Winkler and David Winkler.
