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Evan Hayes is an Academy Award, BAFTA & Emmy Award-winning producer and a partner at ACE Content, based in Los Angeles. He has worked on over 30 films or series across a range of budgets & genres throughout his career.

 Evan most recently produced Dawn Porter’s award-winning documentary The Way I See It about President Obama’s Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza, co-produced by Laura Dern, for Focus Features. In 2019, Hayes won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing Free Solo, directed by Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin for National Geographic Films. In addition to winning an Oscar, the film also won a BAFTA Award, four Critics Choice Awards, three Cinema Eye Honors awards, the TIFF People’s Choice Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards, among others.

Before joining ACE, Hayes served as President of Production at Parkes+MacDonald/Image Nation. The company made five feature films and a number of television projects during his tenure, including the documentary He Named Me Malala directed by Academy Award-winner Davis Guggenheim about Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai, and The Circle starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Prior to joining Parkes+MacDonald, Hayes served as President of Production at Story Mining & Supply Co. where he oversaw the Starz original series Outlander, as well as the feature film The Yellow Birds.

 Hayes also spent eleven years at Working Title Films where he worked as a producer or executive on such films as Everest, Les Miserables, Contraband, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, State of Play, Frost/Nixon, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Hot Fuzz, Atonement, United 93, and Senna.

 Prior to joining Working Title, Hayes worked for producer Philip Steuer and in Paramount Pictures’ Financial Planning and Creative Affairs departments.

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Hayes is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is a member of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts, the Producer’s Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He is a supporter of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Equality Now, Para Los Niños, and the National Outdoor Leadership School.

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