Graham Broadbent

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Graham Broadbent is a British film producer . With ten films in eleven years, he is one of the most active producers in the independent film genre . His numerous films received mostly positive reviews, such as B. See Bruges ... and die? or thunderpants .

Career

As a co-founder of the Motion Pictures production company , he produced the film Thunderpants by Peter Hewitt and Picadilly Jim by John McKay in 2002 . He also produced the film Millions by Danny Boyle , which won the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2005.

Previously, he founded and ran the production company Dragon Pictures with Damien Jones , for which he produced several films, such as B. Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom , screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and rated as one of the ten best films of the year by Time magazine . Other films produced by Dragon Pictures include Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) by Michael Radford , Some Voices by Simon Cellan Jones, Very Annie Mary (2001) by Sara Sugarman, Splendor (1999) by Gregg Araki , A Texas Funeral by William Blake Herron and The Debt Collector .

In 2004 he and Pete Czernin re-founded a production company that he called Blueprint Pictures . The first productions appeared in 2007, on the one hand the biopic Geliebte Jane with Anne Hathaway in the lead role, on the other hand the horror film The icy death by Gregory Jacobs, which was co-produced by George Clooney and Steven Sonderbergh . In 2008 the drama Bruges was seen ... and die? released.

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).