What do celebrities who seem to have everything need most? Someone to manage and help look after it all.
Every year, The Hollywood Reporter recognizes the town’s best and most influential business managers working behind the scenes to manage the financial lives of entertainment’s most high-profile figures.
Business managers in Hollywood work with coteries of lawyers, agents and assistants in the employ of the town’s filmmakers, entertainers and movers and shakers to project earnings from potential projects, endorsements, brand launches, appearances and other forms of revenue. They then run point overseeing millions of dollars in investments, assets and bank accounts that go to fuel celebrities’ lifestyles: Any time you see, say, a multimillion-dollar real estate purchase by an A-lister, a business manager has vetted it and advised for (or against) it.
Whenever a new star breaks through with their first big pay day, or an influencer develops a pernicious spending habit, a tough conversation needs to be had about reining it in and investing for future financial turmoil — and it’s often Hollywood’s top business managers who are on the other end of the phone.
This year’s power list of the top business managers and financial advisers in entertainment will be published in the Oct. 29 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. If you or your client would like to be considered, please fill out the following form via this link. If chosen, a journalist with THR will reach out for more information. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 1, 2025.
