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Graham King(I)

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Graham King
Oscar-winning producer Graham King has worked behind the scenes with the industry's foremost creative talents in both major motion pictures and independent features. Over the last thirty years, King has produced or executive produced more than forty-five films, grossing 1.2 billion dollars at the domestic box office, and over 2.8 billion dollars worldwide. Also heralded by critics and film groups, his films have been nominated for sixty-one Academy Awards, thirty-eight Golden Globe Awards, and fifty-two British Academy Film Awards. His GK Films banner has a three-year, first-look, non-exclusive deal with Paramount Pictures, under which King will develop and produce films through his shingle.

King is in various stages of production on a number of upcoming projects, which he will produce under the GK Films banner. He most recently released the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Rami Malek in the lead role. The film, which has earned over $800,000,000 in the global box office, traces the meteoric rise of Queen through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. GK Films also recently partnered with SyFy to develop Dan Simmons' Award-winning and best-selling novel Hyperion as an event series. King will executive produce alongside Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips.

Most recently, King served as producer on the epic feature "Tomb Raider," which tells the origin story of Lara Croft's first adventure with Alicia Vikander in the leading role. Previously King was an executive producer on the Paramount Pictures' action thriller "World War Z" starring Brad Pitt. The film grossed over $540,000,000 worldwide and was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Films of the Year. King also served as executive producer on the Warner Bros.' historical drama "Argo." The film won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Award, and B.A.F.T.A. for Best Picture. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, "Argo" was named as one of the Top 10 Films of the Year at the A.F.I. Awards and by the National Board of Review, while also appearing on over 150 additional critics' lists of the top ten films of 2012.

In 2011, King produced several diverse films. He received Best Picture Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as a producer on Martin Scorsese's acclaimed fantasy adventure "Hugo." The film received eleven total Academy Award nominations, the most of any film that year, and also appeared on over 200 Critics' lists of the Top 10 films of 2011. King also produced Gore Verbinski's animated comedy "Rango," featuring the voice of Johnny Depp in the title role, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. That same year, he produced Angelina Jolie's feature directorial debut, "In The Land Of Blood And Honey," which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. This marked the first time a producer had been nominated for Best Picture Golden Globes in the three different categories - drama, animated film and foreign-language film - within the same year. King was also a producer on Tim Burton's gothic supernatural thriller Dark Shadows, starring Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green and Helena Bonham Carter. King previously won a Best Picture Oscar as a producer on Scorsese's 2006 crime drama "The Departed," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. The film won a total of four Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing.

King received his first Best Picture Academy Award nomination and won a Best Film B.A.F.T.A. Award, for his producing work on Scorsese's widely praised Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator," starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Additionally, he was honored by the Producers Guild of America (P.G.A.) with the Golden Laurel Award as Producer of the Year.

King's additional producing credits include the Oscar-nominated romantic war-time thriller "Allied," starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard and directed by Robert Zemeckis; the big screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, "Jersey Boys," directed by multi-Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood; the romantic thriller "The Tourist," pairing Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie; Ben Affleck's crime drama "The Town," starring Affleck and Jeremy Renner; Martin Campbell's thriller "Edge Of Darkness," starring Mel Gibson; the historical drama "The Young Victoria," starring Emily Blunt; and the drama "Blood Diamond," starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In addition, he served as a co-executive producer on Scorsese's Oscar-nominated epic drama "Gangs of New York," starring DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz.

King was previously the President and C.E.O. of Initial Entertainment Group, which he founded in 1995. During King's tenure at IEG, he served as an executive producer on such films as Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning ensemble drama "Traffic;" Michael Mann's biographical drama Ali, starring Will Smith in the title role; and "The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys," produced by and starring Jodie Foster. King also went on to executive produce the television miniseries "Traffic," for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Miniseries. A native of the United Kingdom, King moved to the United States in 1982 and was awarded an Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 2009.
BornDecember 19, 1961
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Robert Zemeckis and Graham King in Allied (2016)
Jon Hamm and Graham King in The Town (2010)
Brian May, Graham King, and Gwilym Lee in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Mike Myers, Roger Taylor, Brian May, Jim Beach, Graham King, and Rami Malek at an event for The 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2019 (2019)
Nicole Kidman, Brian May, Jim Beach, Graham King, and Rami Malek at an event for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Brian May, Jim Beach, Graham King, and Rami Malek at an event for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Graham King at an event for Argo (2012)
Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Burton, and Graham King at an event for Dark Shadows (2012)
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Known for

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Matt Damon in The Departed (2006)
The Departed
8.5
  • Producer
  • 2006
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, and Jeremy Renner in The Town (2010)
The Town
7.5
  • Producer
  • 2010
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004)
The Aviator
7.5
  • Producer
  • 2004
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
In the Land of Blood and Honey
4.7
  • Producer
  • 2011

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  • Tomb Raider 2
    • In Development
  • Michael
    • Pre-production
  • Jersey Boys Live!
    • Post-production
  • Little White Corvette
    • In Development
  • The Departed
    • In Development
  • Sandra Bullock in The Unforgivable (2021)
    The Unforgivable
    • (produced by, p.g.a.)
  • Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    • (produced by, p.g.a.)
  • Topher Grace in Delirium (2018)
    Delirium
  • Alicia Vikander in Tomb Raider (2018)
    Tomb Raider
  • Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied (2016)
    Allied
    • (produced by)
  • Chloë Grace Moretz and Zackary Arthur in The 5th Wave (2016)
    The 5th Wave
  • Jersey Boys (2014)
    Jersey Boys
  • Brad Pitt in World War Z (2013)
    World War Z
  • Argo (2012)
    Argo
  • Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Eva Green, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote, and Gulliver McGrath in Dark Shadows (2012)
    Dark Shadows
    • (produced by)
  • In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
    In the Land of Blood and Honey
  • Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary (2011)
    The Rum Diary
  • Asa Butterfield in Hugo (2011)
    Hugo
  • Eva Green and Jamie Campbell Bower in Camelot (2011)
    Camelot
  • Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Ian Abercrombie, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Gil Birmingham, James Ward Byrkit, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, and Abigail Breslin in Rango (2011)
    Rango
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    • December 19, 1961
    • England, UK
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    He appears in The Departed (2006), albeit only in a photo, as the deceased Jackie Costigan.

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