Iain Canning
Iain Canning ( born July 23 1979 in Bristol, England ) is a British film producer. For the film The King's Speech 2011 he won an Oscar for Best Picture.
Life
Canning worked as an Executive Producer in the two award-winning films Control and hunger. The latter won, among others the Golden Camera at the International Film Festival in Cannes. In 2008 he founded together with Emile Sherman, the production company See-Saw Films, with whom she has since realized numerous films, including The King's Speech with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush and Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving.
For The King's Speech Canning won at the Academy Awards in 2011, together with Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition, the film won the British Academy Film Awards and was nominated for numerous other awards. Shame, as I hunger a film by the British artist Steve McQueen, the Canning produced in 2011, has also been nominated for numerous awards. Because of their success with See-Saw Films Canning and Sherman were included 100 of the British newspaper The Guardian, 2011 in the list of Media Guardian.
Filmography
- 2006: Candy - Travel the Angel (Candy )
- 2007: Control
- 2008: Hunger
- 2009: Mary & Max - or shrinking sheep when it rains? (Mary & Max )
- 2010: The Kings of Mykonos
- 2010: The King's Speech
- 2010: Oranges and Sunshine
- 2011: Shame
- 2012: Dead Europe