Martin Richards was an American producer. He won the Best Picture Academy Award for the production of Chicago (2002). As a Broadway producer, he won three Tony Awards for Best Musical and one Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, out of 10 nominations. Richards and his late wife Mary Lea Johnson Richards helped with the founding of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Meals on Wheels. Richards also created the New York Center for Children to care for abused children and their families. Richards died on November 26, 2012 from cancer. The marquees of Broadway theatres were dimmed in his memory the night of November 27, 2012.