Caroline Baron is an award-winning film and television producer. She is currently executive producing the critically acclaimed Amazon original series, Mozart in the Jungle, for which she won a Golden Globe®. She is the executive producer of Errol Morris’ latest project Wormwood, for Netflix. Through their company A-Line Pictures, Baron and her partner/husband Anthony Weintraub recently produced the feature film Bel Canto based on the bestselling novel by Ann Patchett and starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. Her many credits include Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman and the cross-cultural hit Monsoon Wedding, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Baron has been recognized for her work at numerous international awards ceremonies and events, including winning the Emerging Producer award at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards, an Oscar® nomination for Capote for Best Picture, a Spirit
Caroline Baron is an award-winning film and television producer. She is currently executive producing the critically acclaimed Amazon original series, Mozart in the Jungle, for which she won a Golden Globe®. She is the executive producer of Errol Morris’ latest project Wormwood, for Netflix. Through their company A-Line Pictures, Baron and her partner/husband Anthony Weintraub recently produced the feature film Bel Canto based on the bestselling novel by Ann Patchett and starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. Her many credits include Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman and the cross-cultural hit Monsoon Wedding, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Baron has been recognized for her work at numerous international awards ceremonies and events, including winning the Emerging Producer award at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards, an Oscar® nomination for Capote for Best Picture, a Spirit Award nomination for Capote for Best Picture, an Emmy Award® Citation for her work on The Wonder Years, and a 2006 Vision Producer of Excellence Award for Capote. She has received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Chapman University and the 2008 Alumni Achievement award from Brandeis University.
In 1999, motivated by reports of individuals fleeing their homes in Kosovo to seek refuge in crowded camps in Macedonia, Baron founded the non-profit organization FilmAid International. FilmAid uses film and other media to bring life-saving information, psychological relief, and much-needed hope to refugees and other communities in need.
Baron and Weintraub co-founded yummico, inc. a children’s media company whose mission is to deliver quality content to children and their families. She is an adjunct professor in Producing at NYU’s Tisch School of Undergraduate Film and Television. Baron graduated with a BA in English from Brandeis University. She lives in NYC with Weintraub and their two sons, Asher and Emmanuel.
