Jeremy Kleiner  Jeremy Kleiner (born 1976) is an American film producer. Kleiner and his fellow producers won two Academy Awards for Best Picture for the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave" and the 2016 film "Moonlight". Kleiner was born to a Jewish family and is a 1998 graduate of Harvard University. Kleiner worked as creative executive at Dick and Lauren Shuler Donner's company. In 2003, he joined Plan B Entertainment where he worked his way up from creative executive to producer and then co-president in 2013.