Goldman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English and Economics. He began his career at Miramax in Acquisitions, Delivery and Business Affairs before moving on to GreeneStreet Films[2] where he was manager of the production department on a wide range of films, including: In the Bedroom, Swimfan, Uptown Girls, Romance & Cigarettes, and A Prairie Home Companion. During his time at GreeneStreet, Goldman worked with Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount, Fox and Miramax Films.
Goldman departed GreeneStreet in late 2005 to produce Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) would go on to win Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Following the 2007 win Goldman made the 2008 Sundance Audience Award prize-winning[citation needed] film The Wackness,.
Subsequent films include the Michael Douglas vehicle Solitary Man (2009), Rob Reiner[3] and Morgan Freeman film The Magic of Belle Isle (2012), Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe and directed by John Krokidas (2013), Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig in Craig Johnson's The Skeleton Twins (2014), Diane Keaton with Michael Douglas & Rob Reiner again on And So It Goes (2014), Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, and Jeff Nichols on the multi-award-winning film Loving[4] (2016), Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern, with director Craig Johnson again on Wilson (2017), and Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, Billy Magnussen on Ingrid Goes West (2017), which premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and Alex Strangelove - which was written by his frequent artistic collaborator Craig Johnson.
Goldman has also continued to produce documentaries. In 2010 he produced the Dan Hurlin documentary, Puppet,[5] and the Starz film Insha'Allah Democracy,[6] filmmaker Mohammed Ali Naqvi's personal exploration of former exiled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his quest to re-win Pakistan's presidential election. That film was named one of the 12 Must-See[7] Documentaries About Current World Politics by HuffPost.
Goldman is also known for naming the third to final set-up on a given day of film production the “Marcia shot,” in reference to Marcia Brady.