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Laura Ziskin
American film and television producer
1950 – 2011aged 61
A film producer behind Pretty Woman and the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, she became the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast solo, doing so twice, for the 74th ceremony in 2002 and the 79th in 2007. Her Spider-Man work continued posthumously with a credit on The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012.