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British film producer (born 1939)
Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood. Spikings is best known as a producer of the film
The Deer Hunter (1978), which won five
Academy Awards .
Biography
Spikings was born in
Boston, Lincolnshire . After leaving
Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the
Lincolnshire Standard , as a trainee reporter. Later he joined the
Farmers' Weekly , where he won a
Golden Ear award for a fifteen-minute film that he produced and directed himself.
Spikings then moved to the entertainment world. Initially, he promoted pop music festivals and later films.
British Lion and EMI
In 1972, he became the co-owner of
British Lion Films ; Spikings later joined
EMI when it took over British Lion.
[1] For the film,
The Deer Hunter (1978), Spikings won an
Academy Award for Best Picture . The film also garnered awards for several of its actors.
[2]
Nelson Holdings
In 1985, Spikings formed a Canadian company, Nelson Holdings International, with British financier Richard Northcott, to purchase entertainment firms. Nelson later acquired the home video assets of
Embassy Pictures from
Coca-Cola and film production companies Galactic Films and the Spikings Corporation, and formed
Nelson Entertainment .
[3]
[4] Nelson had the North American home video rights and all international rights to the output from the newly-formed
Castle Rock Entertainment .
[5]
Spikings served as president of Nelson Entertainment through the early 1990s. Afterwards, he formed a production partnership with
Eric Pleskow .
[6]
Filmography
1975:
Conduct Unbecoming (producer with
Michael Deeley and
Andrew Donally )
1976:
The Man Who Fell to Earth (producer with
Michael Deeley )
1978:
Convoy (executive producer)
1978:
The Deer Hunter (producer with Michael Deeley,
Michael Cimino , and
John Peverall )
1990:
Texasville (producer with
Peter Bogdanovich )
1991:
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (executive producer)
1991: Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (producer)
[7]
1991:
The Taking of Beverly Hills (executive producer)
1994:
The Favor (executive producer)
1994:
There Goes My Baby — also known as The Last Days of Paradise (executive producer)
1995:
Beyond Rangoon (producer with
John Boorman and
Eric Pleskow )
2013:
Lone Survivor (producer with
Peter Berg , Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick,
Akiva Goldsman ,
Mark Wahlberg , Stephen Levinson, Vitaly Grigoriants)
References
External links
1951–1975 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)