Adam Somner (1967 â November 27, 2024) was a British and American assistant director and film producer. An assistant director since 2003 who started to produce some of the films on which he was assistant director on in 2010, he worked multiple times with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ridley Scott, and Paul Thomas Anderson.
As a producer, Somner was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Picture for the Anderson-directed Licorice Pizza (2021) and One Battle After Another (2025), winning posthumously for the latter.
Somner was born in London in 1967.
He produced Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, a BAFTA Award for Best Film, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture â Musical or Comedy. One Battle After Another (2025) was his final work and is dedicated in his memory.
Somner died from anaplastic thyroid cancer in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, on November 27, 2024, at the age of 57.