Sara Murphy

Sara Murphy is an American music video and film producer, known for her works with Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Aaron Katz and Barry Jenkins. Throughout her career, Murphy has won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for Land Ho!, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film for If Beale Street Could Talk and numerous awards. She also won the Academy Award for Best Picture for One Battle After Another.

Career Murphy initially went to school for engineering, and eventually landed a job as Philip Seymour Hoffman's assistant. In 2010, she served as an associate producer on Jack Goes Boating directed by Hoffman.

In 2014, Murphy produced Land Ho! directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, which won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.

After Hoffman's death in 2014, Murphy was hired by Paul Thomas Anderson to produce a music video. She has served as producer on his music videos for Joanna Newsom, Haim, Radiohead, and The Smile. In 2019, Murphy served as producer for Thom Yorke's music film Anima, which was nominated at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Music Film.

Murphy has also worked at PASTEL, the production company founded by Barry Jenkins, where she produced Never Rarely Sometimes Always and If Beale Street Could Talk, winning for the latter the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film. In 2021, Murphy produced Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film and Academy Award for Best Picture.

In 2022, Murphy launched Fat City alongside Ryan Zacarias, where she has produced Mother, Couch and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. In 2025, she produced Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with Anderson and Adam Somner (who died ten months before the film's release), for which she won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Licorice Pizza

One Battle After Another

2022

Licorice Pizza 2026 One Battle After Another British Independent Film Awards 2021 Best International Independent Film Never Rarely Sometimes Always

2014 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award Land Ho!

2019

If Beale Street Could Talk

2021 Never Rarely Sometimes Always

2021

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

One Battle After Another

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Grammy Awards 2020 Best Music Film Anima

2022

Licorice Pizza 2026 One Battle After Another