Eric Fellner

Eric Nigel Fellner, is a British film producer. He is the co-chairman of the production company Working Title Films.

Early life and education

Fellner was born in England. From 1972 to 1977, he was educated at Cranleigh School, a boarding independent school for boys, in Surrey in South East England, followed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Career

Fellner was a film producer at Initial Films and had come to prominence as the producer of Sid and Nancy and the executive producer of A Kiss Before Dying. Following the departure of Sarah Radclyffe from Working Title Films, he joined to partner Tim Bevan in 1991.
Working Title has a separate deal covering television with Universal’s corporate sibling, NBCUniversal International Studios. It is now one of Britain's largest production company with offices in London and Los Angeles and its films have grossed over $8.5 billion worldwide. Successes include Four Weddings and a Funeral which has grossed over US$250 million worldwide. Dead Man Walking and Fargo won Oscars in 1996 and 1997 respectively, while Elizabeth, Atonement and Frost/Nixon were all nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award.

Recognition

He was awarded the C.B.E. in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the British film industry.
In 2013, he and Bevan received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild of America.
In 2013, he was Awarded a Career Achievement Award at Zurich Film Festival.
2018: Cinematic Production Award of the Royal Photographic Society
Personal life

Fellner has five children, three from his marriage and two with long-time partner, photographer Laura Bailey. They live in London.

Philanthropy

He is the Chairman of Into Film which is a charity which aims to put film at the heart of children and young people’s educational, cultural and personal development.
Along with his business partner Tim Bevan, Lisa Bryer, David Heyman, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson he founded the London Screen Academy in September 2019, a sixth form school teaching behind the camera skills to a student body of 800.

Filmography

Film

Producer

Sid and Nancy
Straight to Hell
Hidden Agenda
Liebestraum
Wild West
No Worries
French Kiss
Moonlight and Valentino
Loch Ness
Bean
The Matchmaker
The Borrowers
What Rats Won't Do
Elizabeth
The Hi-Lo Country
Plunkett & Macleane
Bridget Jones's Diary
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
40 Days and 40 Nights
Ali G Indahouse
About a Boy
The Guru
Johnny English
Love Actually
The Calcium Kid
Thunderbirds
Wimbledon
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
The Interpreter
Pride & Prejudice
Nanny McPhee
United 93
Catch a Fire
Sixty Six
Smokin' Aces
Hot Fuzz
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Definitely, Maybe
Wild Child
Frost/Nixon
The Boat That Rocked
State of Play
Green Zone
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Paul
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Johnny English Reborn
Contraband
Big Miracle
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
I Give It a Year
About Time
The World's End
Closed Circuit
The Two Faces of January
The Theory of Everything
Billy Elliot the Musical Live
Trash
We Are Your Friends
Everest
Legend
The Danish Girl
The Program
Hail, Caesar!
Bridget Jones's Baby
Baby Driver
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
The Snowman
Entebbe
King of Thieves
Johnny English Strikes Again
Mary Queen of Scots
The Kid Who Would Be King
Yesterday
Radioactive
Cats
Emma
The High Note
Rebecca
Cyrano
Last Night in Soho
Ticket to Paradise
The Swimmers
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Catherine Called Birdy
Genie
Drive-Away Dolls
The Substance
Blitz
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Honey Don't!
Crime 101
The Sheep Detectives
Finding Emily
Pressure
Sense and Sensibility
Werwulf
Hippie Hippie Shake

Executive producer

The Rachel Papers
A Kiss Before Dying
Year of the Gun
Posse
Romeo Is Bleeding
The Hawk
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Hudsucker Proxy
Panther
Dead Man Walking
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Notting Hill
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Cried
The Man Who Wasn't There
Long Time Dead
My Little Eye
Thirteen
The Shape of Things
Ned Kelly
The Italian Job
Gettin' Square
Shaun of the Dead
Mickybo and Me
Inside I'm Dancing
No. 2
Gone
Burn After Reading
The Soloist
A Serious Man
Arrietty
Rush
Grimsby

Thanks

Following
Grand Theft Parsons
''Outlaw King''
Television