Peter Spears

Peter Spears is an actor and filmmaker, best known for winning an Oscar for producing "Nomadland" (2021) at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, PGA Award, and the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Spears also produced the critically acclaimed film "Call Me By Your Name" (2017), and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Spears also produced the MGM feature "Bones and All", reuniting with Guadagnino and star Timothée Chalamet, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Spears' film "Drift", directed by Anthony Chen and starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. He worked with Guadagnino again on "Queer", starring Daniel Craig, and his most recent film, "On Swift Horses" with director Daniel Minahan, starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Jacob Elordi and Diego Calva premiered at TIFF last year and was released by Sony Pictures Classics around the world in April 2025.

He directed the underground cult-favorite short film "Ernest and Bertram", and developed the television series "Nightmare Café" and "John from Cincinnati".

As an actor, Spears has appeared in films such as "Call Me By Your Name", "Something's Gotta Give", "The Opposite of Sex", and "Father of the Bride Part II", as well as several television series, including "Friends" and "E.R". He was most recently seen in the film "Sublet", directed by Eytan Fox.

In 2020, Spears founded his own production company, Cor Cordium. The company has multiple projects in development across film and television.