Sharon Oreck

Sharon Oreck is an American film, music video and commercial producer. She has Oscar and Grammy nominations in addition to other awards. She is credited with coining the term populence. Oreck has been married to cinematographer Bill Pope since the 1980s. She was a cinema student at Los Angeles City College in Los Angeles.

Career as a producer

Oreck began her production career in 1972, working on low budget genre movies, until she line produced the evacuation of Phnom Penh for The Killing Fields. From 1984 until 2000, she was the owner-operator of O Pictures, which produced many music videos, commercials, short films and documentaries.

Since 1984, she has produced over 600 music videos for performers in different genres including Tony Bennett, Rosanne Cash, Eurythmics, Ice-T, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Mick Jagger, Madonna, Metallica, Bette Midler, Sting and U2.

She has written the memoir Video Slut: How I Shoved Madonna Off an Olympic High Dive, Got Prince into a Pair of Tiny Purple Woolen Underpants, Ran Away from Michael Jackson's Dad, and Got a Waterfall to Flow Backward So I Could Bring Rock Videos to the Masses which was published by Faber and Faber in May 2010.

Filmography 14 Women – ( Producer / 2007 / Released / ) Skipped Parts – ( Producer / 2001 / Released / ) Mugshot – ( Producer / 1996 / Released / ) Below the Belt – ( Production Assistant / 1980 / Released / Atlantic Releasing Corporation )

TV credits Coca-Cola Pop Music "Backstage Pass to Summer" ( 1991 / Released ): Segment Producer Imagining America ( 1989 / Released ): Producer

Selected music videos

Year Title Artist 1984 "When Doves Cry" Prince "The Glamorous Life" Sheila E. "Like a Virgin" Madonna 1985 "Material Girl" Madonna "Would I Lie to You?" Eurythmics "Sister Fate" Sheila E. 1986 "Nasty" Janet Jackson "Papa Don't Preach" Madonna "Open Your Heart" Madonna "Control" Janet Jackson 1987 "Be Still My Beating Heart" Sting "La Isla Bonita" Madonna "We'll Be Together" Sting "Luka" Suzanne Vega 1988 "In Your Room" The Bangles 1989 "One" Metallica "Like a Prayer" Madonna "Cherish" Madonna "Opposites Attract" Paula Abdul 1990 "Without You" Mötley Crüe "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" Mötley Crüe "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" Janet Jackson 1991 "Wicked Game" Chris Isaak 1992 "In the Closet" Michael Jackson "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" U2

Awards and honors Sharon Oreck was nominated for an Academy Award in 1985 and a Grammy Award in 1991.