What is Kevin Feige's Net Worth and Salary?
Kevin Feige is an American film producer and businessman who has a net worth of $250 million. Kevin Feige has been the president of Marvel Studios since 2007. To date, his films have grossed more than $26 billion worldwide. Kevin is the highest-grossing producer in history by a mile. The second highest-grossing producer, Kathleen Kennedy (of "Star Wars" fame), has grossed $12.9 billion.
In 2000, Feige was the associate producer for the first film in the "X-Men" franchise. Since that film, he has been involved in all of Marvel Studios' productions and is considered to be the godfather of the Marvel universe revival. Kevin earned an Academy Award nomination for producing 2018's "Black Panther," the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture. Feige has produced more than 70 projects, including "Iron Man" (2008), "Thor" (2011), "The Avengers" (2012), and "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014). "Avengers: Endgame," which was released in 2019, is his most commercially successful film to date (as well as one of the highest-grossing films of all time), with a worldwide gross of $2.798 billion.
Early Life
Kevin Feige was born Kevin Michael Feige on June 2, 1973, in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, and attended Westfield High School. After graduation, Kevin applied to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where his favorite directors, Ron Howard, George Lucas, and Robert Zemeckis, honed their skills, and he was finally accepted after his sixth application. Feige graduated in 1995, and in 2014, he received the Mary Pickford Alumni Award. In 2017, he donated $500,000 to the school, establishing the Kevin Feige Endowed Fund for Creative Producing. In the late 1990s, Kevin worked as an assistant to executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner on the films "You've Got Mail" and "Volcano," and he was hired as a producer at Marvel in 2000.
Career
Kevin's knowledge of Marvel comics led Donner to make him an associate producer on 2000's "X-Men," and later that year, Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad hired Feige as his second-in-command. Kevin worked as an executive producer (uncredited) on 2002's "Spider-Man" and co-produced 2003's "Daredevil" and "X2: X-Men United," then executive produced "Hulk" (2003), "The Punisher" (2004), "Spider-Man 2" (2004), "Man-Thing" (2005), "Fantastic Four" (2005), and "X-Men: the Last Stand" (2006). In March 2007, Kevin became Marvel Studios' president of production, and that year he executive produced "Spider-Man 3" and "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer." In 2008, he produced the TV series "Wolverine and the X-Men" and the films "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk," and "Punisher: War Zone" (uncredited), followed by "Iron Man 2" in 2010 and "Thor" and "Captain America: the First Avenger" in 2011. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for the sum of $4.24 billion.
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In 2012, the first film in "The Avengers" franchise was released, and Feige said the idea of "a shared, ongoing, fictional narrative with characters inhabiting the same shared universe" came from the comics, but that "up until 2008, that hadn't been possible in movies." "The Avengers" grossed $1.519 billion at the box office and was followed by 2015's "Avengers: Age of Ultron," 2018's "Avengers: Infinity War," and 2019's "Avengers: Endgame." Kevin produced 2013's "Iron Man 3" and "Thor: The Dark World," 2014's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and "Guardians of the Galaxy," 2015's "Ant-Man," and 2016's "Captain America: Civil War" and "Doctor Strange." From 2015 to 2016, he executive produced the ABC series "Agent Carter," then he produced "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017), "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017), "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017), "Black Panther" (2018)," and "Ant-Man and the Wasp" (2018). In 2019, Feige was named CEO of Marvel Comics, Marvel Animation, and Marvel Television. That year he produced "Captain Marvel" and "Spider-Man: Far From Home," and it was reported that he would be producing a new "Star Wars" film for Lucasfilm and Disney. In 2021, he produced the film "Black Widow," the Disney+ series "WandaVision" and "Loki," and the miniseries "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier."
Personal Life
Kevin is married to a cardiothoracic nurse named Caitlin. The couple welcomed daughter Ella in 2009 and son Erik in 2012.
Awards and Nominations
In 2019, "Black Panther" earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Motion Picture of the Year and was named Best Action Film at the Music City Film Critics' Association Awards and Best Studio Film at the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle Awards. That year Feige received the Stan Lee World Builder Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, a Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Pictures at the PGA Awards, and a Hollywood Blockbuster Award for "Avengers: Endgame" at the Hollywood Film Awards. Kevin won a Showmanship Award from the Publicists Guild of America in 2013, and he has received two Gold Derby Award nominations for Motion Picture, for "Guardians of the Galaxy" in 2015 and "Black Panther" in 2019. "Black Panther" also earned Feige a Producers Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures and Best Picture nominations from the Online Film & Television Association and Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards. In 2019, "Avengers: Infinity War" received a Best Action Film nomination from the Music City Film Critics' Association Awards.
Real Estate
In 2009, Kevin and Caitlin paid $3.175 million for a 4,000 square foot home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.
In 2014, they purchased a 9,000 square foot mansion a few miles away for $9.425 million. That home features seven bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, a marble fireplace, and a basement with a walk-in wine room, movie theater, and workout room. The property also features a swimming pool with a spa and an outdoor kitchen.
In June 2022 Kevin and Caitlin paid $52 million for a 20,000 square-foot mansion in Bel Air.
