Christian Colson

British film producer

Christian Colson
Born	15 September 1968 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education	Claires Court School 1975–1981
Occupation	Producer
Years active	2005–present

Christian Colson (born 15 September 1968) is a British film producer. He is best known as the producer of the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he received numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and BAFTA Award for Best Film. In 2014, both Danny Boyle and Christian Colson signed a first look deal with FX Productions.^[1]

Filmography

Producer

The Descent (2005)
Separate Lies (2005)
Eden Lake (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
The Descent Part 2 (2009)
Centurion (2010)
127 Hours (2010)
Trance (2013)
Selma (2014)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Trainspotting 2 (2017)

References

^ Prudom, Laura (15 October 2014). "Danny Boyle Signs First-Look Deal with FX Prods". Variety. Retrieved 28 February 2021.

External links

Christian Colson at IMDb

Awards for Christian Colson
v t e Academy Award for Best Picture winning producers
1951–1975	Arthur Freed (1951) Cecil B. DeMille (1952) Buddy Adler (1953) Sam Spiegel (1954) Harold Hecht (1955) Michael Todd (1956) Sam Spiegel (1957) Arthur Freed (1958) Sam Zimbalist (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Robert Wise (1961) Sam Spiegel (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) Jack L. Warner (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Walter Mirisch (1967) John Woolf (1968) Jerome Hellman (1969) Frank McCarthy (1970) Philip D'Antoni (1971) Albert S. Ruddy (1972) Tony Bill, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips (1973) Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974) Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
1976–2000	Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976) Charles H. Joffe (1977) Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978) Stanley R. Jaffe (1979) Ronald L. Schwary (1980) David Puttnam (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Saul Zaentz (1984) Sydney Pollack (1985) Arnold Kopelson (1986) Jeremy Thomas (1987) Mark Johnson (1988) Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989) Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990) Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993) Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994) Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995) Saul Zaentz (1996) James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997) Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998) Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999) David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
2001–present	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001) Martin Richards (2002) Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003) Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004) Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005) Graham King (2006) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007) Christian Colson (2008) Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009) Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010) Thomas Langmann (2011) Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012) Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014) Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015) Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016) J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017) Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018) Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019) Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020) Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021) Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022) Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)

BAFTA Award for Best Film

1940s
The Best Years of Our Lives (1947) Hamlet (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949)

1950s
All About Eve (1950) La Ronde (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) Forbidden Games (1953) The Wages of Fear (1954) Richard III (1955) Gervaise (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Room at the Top (1958) Ben-Hur (1959)

1960s

The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai / The Hustler – Robert Rossen (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Tom Jones (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
My Fair Lady (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (1966)
A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967)
The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1968)
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger (1969)

1970s
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) Cabaret (1972) Day for Night (1973) Lacombe, Lucien (1974) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976) Annie Hall – Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins (1977) Julia – Richard Roth (1978) Manhattan (1979)

1980s

The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980)
Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam (1981)
Gandhi – Richard Attenborough (1982)
Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert (1983)
The Killing Fields – David Puttnam (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1985)
A Room with a View – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1986)
Jean de Florette – Claude Berri (1987)
The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1988)
Dead Poets Society – Peter Weir, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas (1989)

1990s

Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese, Robert Chartoff, and Irwin Winkler (1990)
The Commitments – Alan Parker, Lynda Myles, and Roger Randall-Cutler (1991)
Howards End – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1992)
Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, and Gerald R. Molen (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell and Duncan Kenworthy (1994)
Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Lindsay Doran (1995)
The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
The Full Monty – Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, and Fran Walsh (2001)
The Pianist – Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, and Alain Sarde (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
The Aviator – Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, and Michael Mann (2004)
Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus (2005)
The Queen – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward (2006)
Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh (2017)
Roma – Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez (2018)
1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021) All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert (2022) Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas (2023)