Ted Oakes

Ted Oakes is a Canadian-born filmmaker and biologist who worked at the BBC Natural History Unit for 20 years. He founded Oak Island Films in 2017 and has been managing director since. He has collaborated with BBC, TVO, Smithsonian Channel, Discovery Channel and Merit Motion Pictures.

Education

Oakes completed his MSc. in biology, at Queen's University, Canada in 1989 and a PhD. in zoology at Oxford University, UK in 1996

Film career

Honours, Awards & Nominations

Honours

Front Cover Radio Times for Operation Snow Tiger 2013, BBC2/Discovery
2021 Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Awards and nominations

Writing career

2003 Monsters We Met — BBC Books
2009 Life — BBC Books
Mentoring

Oakes has been a mentor for Wildscreen since 2023 and he has mentored Youth Ambassadors through the Ocean Pathways placement programs at Ocean Wise since 2021.