Nationality British Name Iain Canning | Role Film producer | |
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Born 23 July 1979 (age 45) ( 1979-07-23 ) Bristol, England, United Kingdom Movies The King's Speech, Macbeth, Shame, Tracks, Slow West Similar People | ||
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Iain Canning (born 23 July 1979) is an English film producer best known for producing The King's Speech (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture, and the BAFTA awards for Best Film and Best British Film. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Lion (2016).
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Iain co-founded See-Saw Films with producing partner Emile Sherman in 2008. Their offices are split between Great Britain, Australia and the USA.
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Life and career
Canning co-founded See-Saw Films with Emile Sherman in 2008 and has produced several major films including Lion, winner of two BAFTA Awards, starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.
Canning won his Academy Award in 2011 for The King's Speech directed by Tom Hooper. The film stars Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
Among See-Saw's upcoming film projects are Mary Magdalene starring Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, John Cameron Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties starring Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman and Steve McQueen's Widows starring Viola Davis, Liam Neeson and Michelle Rodriguez.
Canning also produced Jane Campion's Emmy Award-winning TV series Top of the Lake which was the first project produced under See-Saw Films' new TV Division. Top of the Lake: China Girl, also directed by Campion, recently wrapped production and is set for broadcast in 2017. Starring Elisabeth Moss who reprises her Golden Globe winning role as Detective Robin Griffin, Top of the Lake: China Girl also stars Nicole Kidman and Gwendoline Christie. Other TV projects include Love, Nina written by Nick Hornby, directed by S.J. Clarkson and starring Helena Bonham Carter.
Canning's recent film productions include Steve McQueen's Shame starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, which received the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, and also garnered the Volpi Cup Best Actor award at Venice for Fassbender, director Justin Kurzel's Macbeth, Mr. Holmes directed by Bill Condon and starring Ian McKellen, Life directed by Anton Corbijn and Slow West starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi-Smit McPhee, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2015. Rounding out Canning's productions are the international hits Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson and Tracks directed by John Curran.
Prior to founding See-Saw, Canning executive-produced the award–winning films Hunger directed by McQueen and Anton Corbijn's Control.
Canning is a trustee of the Bristol contemporary art centre Arnolfini