Christian Colson

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]

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

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

Academy Award for Best Picture

1920s
Wings – Film Studio: Famous Players–Lasky (1927–1928) The Broadway Melody – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1928–1929)

1930s

All Quiet on the Western Front – Film Studio: Universal (1929–1930)
Cimarron – Film Studio: RKO (1930–1931)
Grand Hotel – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1931–1932)
Cavalcade – Film Studio: Fox (1932–1933)
It Happened One Night – Film Studio: Columbia (1934)
Mutiny on the Bounty – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1935)
The Great Ziegfeld – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1936)
The Life of Emile Zola – Film Studio: Warner Bros. (1937)
You Can't Take It with You – Film Studio: Columbia (1938)
Gone with the Wind – Film Studio: Selznick International Pictures (1939)

1940s

Rebecca – Film Studio: Selznick International Pictures (1940)
How Green Was My Valley – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1941)
Mrs. Miniver – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
Casablanca – Film Studio: Warner Bros. (1943)
Going My Way – Film Studio: Paramount (1944)
The Lost Weekend – Film Studio: Paramount (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives – Film Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Productions (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1947)
Hamlet – Film Studio: J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films (1948)
All the King's Men – Film Studio: Columbia (1949)

1950s

All About Eve – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1950)
An American in Paris – Producer(s): Arthur Freed (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth – Producer(s): Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
From Here to Eternity – Producer(s): Buddy Adler (1953)
On the Waterfront – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1954)
Marty – Producer(s): Harold Hecht (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days – Producer(s): Michael Todd (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1957)
Gigi – Producer(s): Arthur Freed (1958)
Ben-Hur – Producer(s): Sam Zimbalist (1959)

1960s

The Apartment – Producer(s): Billy Wilder (1960)
West Side Story – Producer(s): Robert Wise (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1962)
Tom Jones – Producer(s): Tony Richardson (1963)
My Fair Lady – Producer(s): Jack L. Warner (1964)
The Sound of Music – Producer(s): Robert Wise (1965)
A Man for All Seasons – Producer(s): Fred Zinnemann (1966)
In the Heat of the Night – Producer(s): Walter Mirisch (1967)
Oliver! – Producer(s): John Woolf (1968)
Midnight Cowboy – Producer(s): Jerome Hellman (1969)

1970s

Patton – Producer(s): Frank McCarthy (1970)
The French Connection – Producer(s): Philip D'Antoni (1971)
The Godfather – Producer(s): Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
The Sting – Producer(s): Tony Bill, Julia Phillips, and Michael Phillips (1973)
The Godfather Part II – Producer(s): Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, and Fred Roos (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Producer(s): Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
Rocky – Producer(s): Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
Annie Hall – Producer(s): Charles H. Joffe (1977)
The Deer Hunter – Producer(s): Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, and Barry Spikings (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer – Producer(s): Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)

1980s

Ordinary People – Producer(s): Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
Chariots of Fire – Producer(s): David Puttnam (1981)
Gandhi – Producer(s): Richard Attenborough (1982)
Terms of Endearment – Producer(s): James L. Brooks (1983)
Amadeus – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1984)
Out of Africa – Producer(s): Sydney Pollack (1985)
Platoon – Producer(s): Arnold Kopelson (1986)
The Last Emperor – Producer(s): Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Rain Man – Producer(s): Mark Johnson (1988)
Driving Miss Daisy – Producer(s): Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)

1990s

Dances with Wolves – Producer(s): Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs – Producer(s): Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, and Kenneth Utt (1991)
Unforgiven – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood (1992)
Schindler's List – Producer(s): Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, and Steven Spielberg (1993)
Forrest Gump – Producer(s): Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch (1994)
Braveheart – Producer(s): Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
The English Patient – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1996)
Titanic – Producer(s): James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Producer(s): Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Producer(s): Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – Producer(s): David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
A Beautiful Mind – Producer(s): Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
Chicago – Producer(s): Martin Richards (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Producer(s): Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
Million Dollar Baby – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg, and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Crash – Producer(s): Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
The Departed – Producer(s): Graham King (2006)
No Country for Old Men – Producer(s): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Producer(s): Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Producer(s): Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Producer(s): Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Producer(s): Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Producer(s): Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Producer(s): Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Spotlight – Producer(s): Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Michael Sugar (2015)
Moonlight – Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Adele Romanski (2016)
The Shape of Water – Producer(s): J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Green Book – Producer(s): Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Parasite – Producer(s): Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Producer(s): Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) CODA – Producer(s): Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, and Patrick Wachsberger (2021) Everything Everywhere All at Once – Producer(s): Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang (2022)

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 – Nicolas 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)

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

1940s

The Song of Bernadette – Henry King and William Perlberg (1943)
Going My Way – Leo McCarey (1944)
The Lost Weekend – Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives – William Wyler and Samuel Goldwyn (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement – Elia Kazan and Darryl F. Zanuck (1947)
Johnny Belinda – Jean Negulesco and Jerry Wald / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – John Huston and Henry Blanke (1948)
All the King's Men – Robert Rossen (1949)

1950s

Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (1950)
A Place in the Sun – George Stevens (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth – Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
The Robe – Henry Koster and Frank Ross (1953)
On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan and Sam Spiegel (1954)
East of Eden – Elia Kazan (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Anderson and Kevin McClory (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – David Lean and Sam Spiegel (1957)
The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer (1958)
Ben-Hur – William Wyler and Sam Zimbalist (1959)

1960s

Spartacus – Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas (1960)
The Guns of Navarone – J. Lee Thompson and Carl Foreman (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean and Sam Spiegel (1962)
The Cardinal – Otto Preminger and Martin C. Schute (1963)
Becket – Peter Glenville and Hal B. Wallis (1964)
Doctor Zhivago – David Lean and Carlo Ponti (1965)
A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1966)
In the Heat of the Night – Norman Jewison and Walter Mirisch (1967)
The Lion in Winter – Anthony Harvey and Martin Poll (1968)
Anne of the Thousand Days – Charles Jarrott and Hal B. Wallis (1969)

1970s

Love Story – Arthur Hiller and Howard G. Minsky (1970)
The French Connection – William Friedkin and Philip D'Antoni (1971)
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
The Exorcist – William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty (1973)
Chinatown – Roman Polanski and Robert Evans (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Miloš Forman and Michael Douglas (1975)
Rocky – John G. Avildsen, Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
The Turning Point – Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents (1977)
Midnight Express – Alan Parker and Alan Marshall (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton and Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)

1980s

Ordinary People – Robert Redford and Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
On Golden Pond – Mark Rydell and Bruce Gilbert (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Steven Spielberg (1982)
Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks (1983)
Amadeus – Miloš Forman and Saul Zaentz (1984)
Out of Africa – Sydney Pollack (1985)
Platoon – Oliver Stone and Arnold Kopelson (1986)
The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Rain Man – Barry Levinson and Mark Johnson (1988)
Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and A. Kitman Ho (1989)

1990s

Dances with Wolves – Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
Bugsy – Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty (1991)
Scent of a Woman – Martin Brest (1992)
Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg (1993)
Forrest Gump – Robert Zemeckis and Wendy Finerman (1994)
Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Laurie Borg (1995)
The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
Titanic – James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg (1998)
American Beauty – Sam Mendes and Bruce Cohen (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – Ridley Scott and Douglas Wick (2000)
A Beautiful Mind – Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (2001)
The Hours – Stephen Daldry, Robert Fox, and Scott Rudin (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
The Aviator – Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann (2004)
Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee and Diana Ossana (2005)
Babel – Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Steve Golin (2006)
Atonement – Joe Wright and Tim Bevan (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle and Christian Colson (2008)
Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau (2009)

2010s

The Social Network – David Fincher, Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin (2010)
The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Jim Burke, and Jim Taylor (2011)
Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen, Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, and Bill Pohlad (2013)
Boyhood – Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
The Revenant – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
Moonlight – Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Adele Romanski (2016)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, and Peter Czernin (2017)
Bohemian Rhapsody – Bryan Singer, Jim Beach, and Graham King (2018)
1917 – Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Brian Oliver, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, and Peter Spears (2020) The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021) The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Tony Kushner (2022)

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