JEREMY THOMAS HONOURED WITH THE AWARD TO THE PRODUCER

Tuesday October 14th, 2008

Jeremy Thomas

At the upcoming edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage the first ever Award to the Producer of Visually Outstanding Films will be presented to Jeremy Thomas, who thanks to his film oeuvre, which proves his visual sensitivity, will certainly go down in the history of cinema.

Thomas has begun his career quite early and, starting from the minor jobs, he kept working up the ladder. At the beginning he was an editor and than a producer of the documentaries and TV films. His second theatrical production, Shout by Jerzy Skolimowski won Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes Film Festival.


The Last Emperor dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, cin. Vittorio Storaro

During the many years of his career he has repeatedly worked with the director Bernardo Bertolucci. This fruitful cooperation resulted in the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1988 for The Last Emperor. Afterwards the two filmmakers have worked together on The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers. Jeremy Thomas has also produced the extraordinary films by David Cronenberg - Naked Lunch and Crash and numerous films with many other directors like Stephen Frears, Karel Reisz, Volker Schlondorff, Bob Rafelson, Jerzy Skolimowski and Jonathan Glazer. His filmography includes even productions with Japanese filmmakers i.e. Nagisa Oshima’sTaboo and Takeshi Kitano’sBrother. In 2006 The European Film Academy honoured him with the Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema Award.


Tideland dir. Terry Gilliam, cin. Nicola Pecorini

Young Adam dir. David Mackenzie, cin. Giles Nuttgens

Recently Thomas has worked on Terry Gilliam’sTideland, Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater and Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders.

  • Bad Timing, 1980, dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, 1983, dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • Eureka, 1984, dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • The Last Emperor, 1987, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • The Sheltering Sky, 1990, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Let Him Have It, 1991, dir. Peter Medak
  • Naked Lunch, 1991, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Stealing Beauty, 1996, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Blood and Wine, 1996, dir. Bob Rafelson
  • The Ogre, 1996, dir. Volker Schlöndorff
  • Crash, 1996, dir.David Cronenberg
  • Taboo, 1999, dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • Sexy Beast, 2000, dir.Jonathan Glazer
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002, dir. Phillip Noyce
  • The Dreamers, 2003, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Young Adam, 2003, dir. David Mackenzie
  • Tideland, 2005, dir. Terry Gilliam
  • Fast Food Nation, 2006, dir. Richard Linklater
  • Palermo Shooting, 2008, dir. Wim Wenders


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