In September 2019, Participant extended Linde’s contract as CEO with a multi-year deal.
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He also expanded the company’s content approach to include episodic television series and digital short form video through the acquisition of SoulPancake. Since joining Participant as its CEO in 2015, Linde has overseen two best picture Academy Award winners - Green Book and Spotlight - along with a best documentary feature Oscar for American Factory and two best foreign-language Oscars for Roma and A Fantastic Woman. Most recently, Linde executive produced Yimou's Coming Home (2014 film) which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Jonas Cuaron's Desierto, and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma. Linde has long-lasting relationships in global filmmaking, most recently serving as executive producer of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Academy Award-nominated Biutiful, producer of Fernando Meirelles' 360, and as executive producer of Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War starring Christian Bale. In 2011, Linde founded Lava Bear Films, a film production and financing company developing projects specifically designed for the global marketplace, and served as the company's CEO. During his tenure, Universal significantly grew its international distribution and production platform across all media and launched Universal's family/animation banner, Illumination Entertainment. In 2002, Linde was promoted to co-chairman of Universal Pictures and subsequently, Chairman. In 2008, Linde oversaw the sale of Rogue Pictures to Relativity Media. During Linde's tenure at Focus, the company was honored with 53 Oscar nominations resulting in 11 Academy Awards. Linde oversaw a slate that featured Roman Polanski's The Pianist, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener, as well as Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. Īs co-president of Focus Features and president of its genre production unit, Rogue Pictures. In 2002, Linde and his partners sold the Good Machine companies to Universal Pictures and created Focus Features. While at Good Machine, Linde also executive produced Todd Solondz's Happiness. Films distributed by GMI earned six Academy Awards from 22 nominations, including two for Best Picture and five Golden Globes from 18 nominations. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There, and Todd Field's In the Bedroom. GMI handled the international distribution of films including Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (of which Linde was executive producer), Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mamá También (of which Linde was executive producer). Linde served as both co-president and partner of the production company Good Machine and President and founder of Good Machine International, beginning in January 1997. While at Miramax, he oversaw the international distribution of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, Wes Craven's Scream and Anthony Minghella's multi-Academy Award-winning The English Patient. Linde joined Miramax Films in 1991 as Vice President of Acquisitions before being promoted to Executive Vice President and Head of Sales as the founding executive of Miramax Films International. In New York, he worked as a paralegal for Paramount Pictures from 1984-1988 where he supervised sales of select international theatrical rights at Paramount Pictures and then as co-head of the international department at Fox Lorber Associates from 1988-1991 where he directed the sales of more than 300 independently produced film, documentary and television titles. After attending Swarthmore College, he moved to New York City where his girlfriend (later his wife) had moved. In 1978, Linde graduated from South Eugene High School. His father was Jewish and his mother is Presbyterian. Linde was born and raised in Eugene, the son of law professor and Oregon Supreme Court Justice, Hans A.