Graham King


Graham King is an English film producer. He has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the films The Aviator, Hugo, Bohemian Rhapsody, and The Departed ; for the last of which he won the award.

Career

King is president and CEO of production company GK Films. He is best known for his 2006 crime thriller film The Departed, which was awarded the Best Picture Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards, and for Bohemian Rhapsody, which was nominated for five awards including Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards, winning four.
King's multiple commercial successes as a producer include The Departed, The Tourist, and Bohemian Rhapsody, which grossed over worldwide against a production budget of about. Bohemian Rhapsody ultimately became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide, the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time, and in 2022 was listed as one of 20th Century Fox's top five highest-grossing films worldwide.

Honours

King was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours.

Filmography

Film

ProducerDr. T & the Women The Aviator The Departed Blood Diamond Next The Young Victoria Edge of Darkness The Town London Boulevard The Tourist Rango Hugo The Rum Diary In the Land of Blood and Honey Dark Shadows Jersey Boys The 5th Wave Allied Tomb Raider Delirium Bohemian Rhapsody The Unforgivable Michael
Executive producerChanging Habits Ping! Traffic Ali The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Desert Saints Gangs of New York The Ballad of Jack and Rose An Unfinished Life First Born Gardener of Eden Argo

Television

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