Lorne Michaels - Famous Screenwriter

Lorne Michaels Net Worth

$500,000,000

Lorne Michaels, the famous Canadian-American television producer and writer, has a net worth of $500 million. Best known for being the creator and producer of ‘Saturday Night Live’ and producing other successful shows like ‘Late Night’ and ‘The Tonight Show’, Michaels has built an impressive fortune through his lucrative career in the entertainment industry.

Key facts:

  • Lorne Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer and writer.
  • He is best known for being the creator and producer of the comedy program 'Saturday Night Live'.
  • Michaels has also produced successful shows such as 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon', '30 Rock', 'A.P. Bio', and 'Late Night with Seth Myers'.
  • He has been nominated for more than 156 Emmy Awards, winning 36.
  • Michaels has worked on SNL for all of the show's seasons except for seasons 6 to 10, when he took a hiatus from 198 to 1985.

Basic Information About Lorne Michaels

CategoryBusiness β€Ί Producers
ProfessionsScreenwriter, Television producer, Film Producer, Actor, Comedian
Net worth$500,000,000
Date of birth1944-11-17 (79 years old)
Place of birthToronto
NationalityUnited States of America
GenderMale
Height5 ft 6 in (1.7 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

What Movie Awards did Lorne Michaels win?


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Lorne Michaels awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
Stinker Award - Worst Resurrection of a TV ShowNomineeConeheads1993
Stinker Award - Worst SequelNomineeWayne's World 21993
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyNomineeThe Office2008
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live2019
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music ProgramNomineeSaturday Night Live1992
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music ProgramWinnerSaturday Night Live1989
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music ProgramNomineeSaturday Night Live1980
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live1977
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live1976
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2021
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2020
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2019
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2018
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2017
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2014
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2013
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2012
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Variety TelevisionNomineeSaturday Night Live2005
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety Sketch SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2020
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety Sketch SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2019
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety Β– Sketch SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live2018
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety Sketch SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live2017
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety - Sketch SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2016
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2015
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2014
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2013
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2012
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety - (Including Talk) SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live2010
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety - (Including Talk) SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live2009
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety - (Including Talk) SeriesWinnerSaturday Night Live2007
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2003
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2002
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - SeriesNomineeSaturday Night Live2001
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyNominee30 Rock2014
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyNominee30 Rock2013
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyNominee30 Rock2012
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyNominee30 Rock2011
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyWinner30 Rock2010
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyWinner30 Rock2009
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, ComedyWinner30 Rock2008
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch SeriesNomineeDocumentary Now!2019
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch SeriesNomineeDocumentary Now!2017
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch SeriesNomineeDocumentary Now!2016
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionNomineeThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2016
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk TelevisionWinnerThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2015
WGA Award (TV) - Comedy/Variety - (Including Talk) SeriesWinnerThe Daily Show2010
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch SeriesNomineePortlandia2018
CableACE - Comedy SeriesNomineeThe Kids in the Hall1994
CableACE - Comedy SeriesNomineeThe Kids in the Hall1993
Gemini - Best Comedy SeriesNomineeThe Kids in the Hall1996

Lorne Michaels roles

Movie / Series Role
Man on the MoonLorne Michaels - 'Saturday Night Live' Producer (uncredited)
Three Amigos!Writer
Sandy WexlerTestimonial
30 RockReverend Gimp (uncredited) unknown episodes
Comedians in Cars Getting CoffeeSelf 1 episode, 2016
Saturday Night LiveWriter
Saturday Night LiveWriter
Saturday Night LiveWriter
Saturday Night LiveWriter
Saturday Night LiveWriter
Saturday Night LiveSelf / ... 5 episodes, 1975-2019
The Story of Late NightSelf 2 episodes, 2021
PortlandiaLorne Michaels 1 episode, 2012
CBS News Sunday MorningSelf 1 episode, 2018
The Oprah Winfrey ShowSelf 1 episode, 2011
Laugh-InWriter
Laugh-InWriter

Lorne Michaels's Movie/Shows Salary

Movie / Series Salary
Saturday Night LiveΒ (1975)$115,000 (1975 season)

Lorne Michaels's Quotes

  • [on John Travolta] John is the perfect star for the 1970s. He has this strange androgynous quality, this all-pervasive sexuality. Men don't find him terribly threatening. And women, well ...
  • [observation on his career, 2015] To use a tennis metaphor, after a certain point you can't keep charging the net, and you fall back to the lob game. But you can still win.I think I care just as much as I did at the beginning, and I think - at lots of levels - I'm better at it now. You learn to trust signs that something isn't going to work earlier than you used to, or that this person is talking nonsense earlier than you used to, and you're confident enough to to say, "We've got it. Let's move on".
  • [on Chris Farley, whom he fired from "Saturday Night Live" in 1995] I'd gone through hell with John (Belushi) back in the 1970's, and I had no intention of going through it again with Chris; so I dropped him from the lineup.

Lorne Michaels's photos

Interesting Facts about Lorne Michaels

  1. Was part of the famous "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto.
  2. Rosie Shuster is the daughter of Frank Shuster from comedy troupe Wayne & Shuster.
  3. Attended University of Toronto.
  4. Received an Honorary Doctorate from Ryerson University for his contribution to the television industry.
  5. He received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 25, 2003).
  6. Cousin of Neil Levy
  7. Awarded the 2004 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (given by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).
  8. Is a long-time friend of fellow New Yorker Paul Simon, which has led to Simon and/or his songs appearing in numerous Michaels productions, including Saturday Night Live (1975) (several appearances as both host and musical guest); The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) (brief appearance); and Coneheads (1993) (song "Kodachrome"). Michaels has also produced several of Simon's specials, including: The Paul Simon Special (1977); The Concert in Central Park (1982)_; and American Masters: Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time (1993).
  9. Attended Forest Hill Collegiate highschool in Forest Hill, an area of Toronto
  10. He was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada)on May 1, 2002 for his services to the entertainment industry.
  11. Is portrayed by Ari Cohen in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something (2002).
  12. Best Man at Steve Martin's wedding to Anne Stringfield.
  13. Counts Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) as a major influence on his Saturday Night Live (1975) sketches.
  14. His office is adjacent to the Saturday Night Live (1975) studio located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
  15. Received a dog-head inkwell as a gift from actress Reese Witherspoon after she emceed the first post 9/11 Saturday Night Live (1975) show.
  16. His Saturday Night Live (1975) is the longest-running weekly late-night show in the history of television (as of 2008).
  17. His cat Steve is a former Purina calendar model.
  18. Like friend Steve Martin and fellow showbiz heavyweights Paul Simon and Mike Nichols, Michaels has had his portrait painted by Eric Fischl.
  19. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Barack Obama, in a live televised ceremony held in the East Room of the White House, on November 22, 2016, along with twenty other recipients, the the largest, and final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Obama's presidency. At this ceremony, the twenty-one recipients, in alphabetical order, included: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elouise Cobell (posthumous award given to her son), Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Richard Garwin, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton (as Margaret H. Hamilton), Tom Hanks, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (posthumous award given to her niece), Michael Jordan, Maya Lin, Lorne Michaels, Newton Minow, Eduardo Padron (as Eduardo PadrΓ³n), Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, and Cicely Tyson.
  20. Born on the same date as Danny DeVito.

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