Don Levy is senior vice president of marketing and communications for the Digital Production Division of Sony Pictures.

Levy directs the corporate communications, marketing and public relations for Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks. In addition, Levy coordinates marketing and communication activity across Sony Pictures and other Sony companies.

Levy joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1996 during the group’s founding stages. Since then, with Levy directing its communication efforts, Imageworks has gone on to become and award-winning visual effects and digital character animation company. In 2003, Levy oversaw the Academy Award® campaign for Imageworks’ animated short film, The ChubbChubbs!, which garnered the group’s first Oscar®, and guided the company to win the 2005 Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for its work on Spider-Man™ 2.

Prior to joining Sony Pictures Digital, Levy served in a similar capacity with Sony Pictures Digital Studios, supporting the studio’s digital production and post-production businesses. Levy joined Sony Pictures in 1995 as Columbia Picture’s Awards campaign consultant working on the Oscar® winning campaign for Sense And Sensibility.

Before joining Sony Pictures Entertainment, Levy spent six years at Paramount Pictures where he was in charge of production publicity for the that studio’s motion picture group. Freelance credits as a production publicist include numerous films such as; Coming Home, Shoot The Moon, Running Scared, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Club Paradise, and many films in which visual effects played a significant role, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Flinstones, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Witches Of Eastwick, 2010, Brainstorm, and Poltergeist. He began his career as an apprentice with the precursor to the entertainment PR firm PMK, Maslansky-Koenigsberg, and credits its partners Neil Koenigsberg and the late Michael Maslansky, with early mentorship. He also held positions in television publicity at Warner Bros. Television, working on such mini-series and movies of the week as “Roots: The Next Generations”, “The Corn is Green”, and “You Can’t Take it With You”, and later with Associated Film Distribution as national promotion manager.

Levy is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he serves on its feature animation nominating committee, the Publicists Guild of America, from which he received the Guild’s highest honor, The Les Mason Award and their Bob Yeager Award for community service.

Levy studied dramatic literature, theater history and cinema at NYU and graduated from the University of Denver, where he majored in Mass Communications and History. He also has a certificate from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA where he studied marketing strategy in the information age.

Levy lives with his family in Thousand Oaks, California.