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Kevin Feige is an American film and television producer and the president of Marvel Studios. He has been the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2007 and was named chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment in October 2019.
Feige is the highest-grossing producer of all time, with the films he has produced carrying a combined worldwide box office gross that surpasses any other individual producer. Avengers: Endgame (2019) was the highest-grossing film in the world at the time of its release.
Feige was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Black Panther in 2018 but did not win that category. Black Panther was the first superhero film ever nominated for Best Picture and the first MCU film to win an Academy Award.
Feige attended the University of Southern California, graduating from the Division of Film and Television Production in 1995. His first five applications to the USC School of Cinematic Arts were rejected before he was accepted on the sixth attempt. USC awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2023 and renamed the division after him following his transformational endowment in November 2025.
In the mid-2000s, Feige identified that Marvel still owned the film rights to the core Avengers characters, even though Spider-Man, Blade, and the X-Men had been licensed to other studios. He drew on the model Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had used in their comics in the early 1960s and envisioned building a shared cinematic universe around the characters Marvel controlled.
Feige received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild in 2019. He has also received PGA nominations for Black Panther, Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America.