BBC Films

BBC Films

Industry	Film
Founded	June 18, 1990
Headquarters	Broadcasting House, London, United Kingdom
Products	Motion pictures
Parent	BBC
Website	www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms

BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded in 1990,^[1] and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Quartet, Chef, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Saving Mr. Banks, My Week with Marilyn, Jane Eyre, In the Loop, An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, Nativity!, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, Billy Elliot and Brooklyn.

BBC Films co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Christine Langan is of BBC Films, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.^[2]

BBC Films has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013.^[3] Prior to 2007, it was based nearby in Mortimer Street, while still under full control of the BBC. A restructuring of the division integrated it into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and its head David M. Thompson left to start his own film production company.^[4]

Productions

TBA

• Stan and Ollie^[5]
• A United Kingdom^[6]

2017

• The Happy Prince
• Victoria and Abdul
• On Chesil Beach

2016

• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
• City of Tiny Lights
• Florence Foster Jenkins
• The Sense of an Ending
• Sully
• Swallows and Amazons
• Their Finest
• The Mercy
• Viceroy's House
• Denial

2015

• Far from the Madding Crowd
• The Falling
• Woman in Gold
• Suite Française
• Testament of Youth
• Mr. Holmes
• X+Y
• Bill
• Brooklyn
• The Lady in the Van

2014

• Chef
• Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
• A Little Chaos
• A Long Way Down
• The Invisible Woman
• What We Did on Our Holiday

Lilting

2013

• Philomena
• Saving Mr. Banks^[7] (co-production with Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dom Hemingway
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• Walking with Dinosaurs

2012

• Quartet
• Shadow Dancer
• Spike Island
• Blood
• Good Vibrations
• Great Expectations
• In the Dark Half
• A Running Jump

2011

• The Awakening
• Brighton Rock
• West Is West
• Jane Eyre
• Coriolanus
• My Week with Marilyn
• Project Nim
• Perfect Sense
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• We Need to Talk about Kevin

2010

• Made in Dagenham
• Tamara Drewe
• Edge of Darkness (co-production with Warner Bros. and Icon Productions)
• StreetDance 3D (co-production with Vertigo Films)
• Freestyle

2009

• Nativity!
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• Tormented
• Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
• The Damned United (co-production with Columbia Pictures)
• In the Loop
• Bright Star (co-production with Film Finance Corporation Australia, Pathé, Warner Bros., UK Film Council, and Screen Australia)
• The Boys Are Back (co-production with Film Finance Corporation Australia, Tiger Aspect Pictures, Miramax Films, and Screen Australia)
• An Education

2008

• Churchill at War
• Revolutionary Road (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)
• Death Defying Acts
• The Duchess
• Brideshead Revisited
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• The Other Boleyn Girl^[8]
• The Edge of Love
• The Meerkats

2007

• Joe's Palace
• The Restraint of Beasts
• Four Last Songs
• The First Grader
• Capturing Mary
• Eastern Promises (distributed and co-presented by Focus Features)
• Becoming Jane

2006

• Notes on a Scandal
• Starter for Ten
• Scoop
• Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
• Fast Food Nation (US 2006/UK 2007)
• Confetti
• Shoot the Messenger
• Miss Potter
• As You Like It (in association with HBO Films)

2005

• The Undertaker (short)
• Opal Dream
• Imagine Me & You
• Mrs Henderson Presents
• A Cock and Bull Story
• Match Point
• Shooting Dogs
• Love + Hate

2004

• Undone (short)
• The Accidental Perfectionist
• Bullet Boy
• Millions
• Red Dust
• My Summer of Love
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (with Company Pictures)
• Stage Beauty (with Qwerty Films and Tribeca)
• Trauma

2003

• The Statement
• Kiss of Life
• The Mother
• Skagerrak
• Masked and Anonymous
• Code 46
• I Capture the Castle

2001

• Iris (with Miramax Films and Intermedia Films)
• Born Romantic

2000

• Wonder Boys
• Wild About Harry
• Saltwater
• Maybe Baby
• Billy Elliot (with Working Title Films)
• Shadow of the Vampire (with Saturn Films)

pre-1999

• 1997 - Twenty Four Seven
• 1997 – I Went Down
• 1996 – Jude
• 1996 – Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
• 1995 – ID
• 1994 – Captives (co-production with Distant Horizon & Miramax Films)
• 1990 – Truly, Madly, Deeply

See also

• BBC

References

1. "BBC Films: Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema in 2015". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
2. "Baftas 2015: who is Christine Langan?". The Guardian. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
3. "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House". BBC. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
4. "David Thompson to leave Head of BBC Films role to launch new company". BBC. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
5. Lodderhose, Diana (17 February 2016). "eOne Boards Steve Coogan-John C. Reilly's Laurel and Hardy Biopic 'Stan & Ollie'".
6. "BBC - A United Kingdom - BBC Films".
7. "BBC Films unveils upcoming slate at Cannes". BBC. BBC Films. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
8. "BBC - The Other Boleyn Girl - BBC Films".

External links

• BBC Films at BBC Online