Amanda Posey
Amanda Posey (* 20th century ) is a British film producer . She became known through films such as Ball Fever , A Man for a Season , An Education , Quartet or Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds .
life and career
Amanda Posey started working in film in the early 1990s, first as assistant to the producer at the British TV series The Comic Strip Presents ... . In 1997 she finally began to work independently as a film producer. Her first film was the she herself produced the Nick Hornby -Literaturverfilmung Fever Pitch with Colin Firth in the lead role.
During the 2000s she was involved in films such as Five Seconds to Spare , the American remake of Ball Fever entitled A Man for a Season or another Oscar-nominated Nick Hornby film An Education with the cast of Carey Mulligan , Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina . In 2012 she was involved in Dustin Hoffman's comedy quartet with Maggie Smith , Michael Gambon and Billy Connolly . In 2014 she supported the cinema production A Long Way Down with Pierce Brosnan in the lead role, which is also based on a literary model by Hornby. For their commitment of the film Brooklyn - A love between two worlds , she was together with her colleague Finola Dwyer in the category Best Film at the ceremony in 2016 for the second time for a post-2010 Oscar nominated.
In addition to her commitment to feature films, she also supported the short film The Open Doors as a producer in 2005 and the documentary My Nazi Legacy in 2015 .
Amanda Posey is the second wife of the writer Nick Hornby.
Awards (selection)
- 2010: Oscar nomination for Best Picture at the 2010 awards ceremony for An Education with Finola Dwyer
- 2016: Oscar nomination for Best Picture at the 2016 awards ceremony for Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds with Finola Dwyer
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1997: Fever Pitch (Fever Pitch)
- 2000: Five Seconds to Spare
- 2005: A Man for a Season (Fever Pitch)
- 2009: An Education
- 2012: Quartet
- 2014: A Long Way Down
- 2015: Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds (Brooklyn)
- 2016: Your best hour (Their Finest)
- 2018: VS.
- 2019: Dirt Music
Documentaries and short films
- 2004: The Open Doors (short film)
- 2015: My Nazi Legacy (documentary)
literature
- Amanda Posey in: Caroline Hancock, Nic Wistreich: Get Your Film Funded: UK Film Finance Guide. , Shooting People Press, 2003, p. 38
Web links
- Amanda Posey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Amanda Posey filmography . In: The New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amanda Posey. In: AO Scott: Beware of Strangers Bearing Champagne. , The New York Times , October 8, 2009
- ↑ Amanda Posey. In: Amanda Posey: I didn't win, but my only regret is that I didn't meet George Clooney. , The Independent , March 8, 2009
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Posey, Amanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |