Dorcas Wright "Dede" Gardner[1] (born October 16, 1967) is an American film producer.

She has also been nominated in the category for The Tree of Life (2011), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015), Vice (2018), Women Talking (2022), and Nickel Boys (2024).

[4] Her father is a partner at the Chicago investment bank William Blair & Company; her mother is president of the Michael Reese Health Trust.

In 2012, Gardner and her fellow producers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Tree of Life.

[11] In 2014, she won the Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie 12 Years a Slave alongside co-producers Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Kleiner and Anthony Katagas.