Dan Jinks

Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer. In February 2010, Jinks launched his own film and television production company, the Dan Jinks Company. In July 2011, he signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios.

Life and career

Previously, working with producing partner Bruce Cohen, Jinks produced Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Milk was named Best Picture of 2008 by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The pair won the Best Picture Academy Award in 2000 for producing American Beauty. The film, which won a total of five Oscars,

Jinks is openly gay.

Filmography (as producer) Film Nothing to Lose (1997) The Bone Collector (1999) (as executive producer) American Beauty (1999) Won: Academy Award for Best Picture Down with Love (2003) Big Fish (2003) The Forgotten (2004) The Nines (2007) Milk (2008) Nominated: Academy Award for Best Picture Pinocchio (TBA) Fiddler on the Roof (TBA)

Television Traveler (2007) Side Order of Life (2007) Pushing Daisies (2007–09) Emily Owens, M.D. (2012–13) Nancy Drew (2018) Sub/Liminal (TBA)