DON LEVY
SVP, Marketing & Communications, Sony Pictures Digital
Don Levy is senior vice president of marketing and communications for Sony Pictures Digital which oversees the digital production and online assets of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and consists of four key operating business units: Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Pictures Digital Networks which includes SoapCity, Screenblast, Sony Pictures mobile and wireless services, the studio's online promotional arm SPiN, and the UK interactive television service GoPlayTV.
By making information and entertainment available anywhere, anytime on any connected device, Sony Pictures Digital is exploring new technology that links hardware with software in ways that advance the current boundaries of the entertainment landscape. He is responsible for Sony Pictures Digital’s corporate communications, media and public relations for the division’s operating businesses, and coordination of marketing strategy between its business units.
Levy, a seven-year veteran of Sony Pictures Entertainment, came to Sony Picture Digital from Sony Pictures Digital Studios Division, where he served in a similar capacity in support of the studio’s technology driven businesses. He joined Sony Pictures in 1995 as the studio’s Awards campaign consultant working on the Oscar-winning campaign for "Sense and Sensibility," and, in 1996, became Executive Director of Advertising, Publicity and Promotion for Sony Pictures award-winning visual effects and digital character animation company, Imageworks.
During his tenure with Imageworks, Mr. Levy oversaw the publicity efforts for the visual effects and character animation facility, which included five Academy Award campaigns for "Starship Troopers, " Hollow Man," Stuart Little," "Spider-Man" and "The ChubbChubbs." This past year, Imageworks received its first Academy Award for "The ChubbChubbs", in the category of Best Animated Short Film. Prior to joining SPE, Levy held a six-year post at Paramount Pictures, where he was in charge of production publicity for that studio’s motion picture group. Freelance credits as a production publicist include numerous films in which visual effects played a significant role, including “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “The Flintstones,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “2010,” “Brainstorm,” “Poltergeist” and "Coming Home." Levy is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and received the Publicists Guild of America’s highest honor, The Les Mason Award.