Tim Bevan

Timothy John Bevan, is a New Zealand-British film producer, the co-chairman of the production company Working Title Films. Bevan and Fellner are the most successful British producers of their era. Through 2017, the films he has co-produced have grossed a total of almost $7 billion worldwide.
As of 2017, films by Working Title Films have won 12 Academy Awards and 39 British Academy Film Awards.

Early life and education

Bevan was born in 1957 in Queenstown, New Zealand. From 1969 to 1974, he was educated at Sidcot School, a Quaker boarding independent school in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Winscombe in North Somerset, in South West England. He then attended Cheltenham College, a boarding independent school in the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, in the West of England.

Life and career

Bevan co-founded Working Title Films in London with Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. Radclyffe left the company in 1991 and Eric Fellner joined to partner Bevan. Among Bevan's more than 40 films as producer or executive producer include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Elizabeth, Notting Hill, Billy Elliot, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, Atonement, Frost/Nixon, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Theory of Everything, and Darkest Hour. Working Title are also notable for their long-time collaboration with American filmmakers the Coen brothers, having produced Barton Fink, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? among others.
Working Title signed a deal with Universal Studios in 1999 for a reported US$600 million, which gave Bevan and Fellner the authority to commission projects with a budget of up to $35 million without having to consult their investors.
Bevan is a co-producer of the West End musical Billy Elliot.
Bevan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 Birthday Honours for services to the British film industry.
In 2013, he and Fellner received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild of America.
Along with Fellner, Lisa Bryer, David Heyman, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. 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.

Personal life

Bevan is divorced from English actress Joely Richardson; the two have a daughter, Daisy, born in 1992. Bevan is now married to Amy Gadney, and they have a daughter and a son.

Filmography

Film

ProducerMy Beautiful Laundrette Personal Services Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Paperhouse For Queen and Country Diamond Skulls Chicago Joe and the Showgirl Robin Hood London Kills Me Map of the Human Heart French Kiss Moonlight and Valentino Loch Ness Bean The Matchmaker The Borrowers What Rats Won't Do Elizabeth The Hi-Lo Country Plunkett & Macleane High Fidelity 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? Matilda the Musical Catherine Called Birdy 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 producerA World Apart The Tall Guy Fools of Fortune Drop Dead Fred Bob Roberts Posse Romeo Is Bleeding Four Weddings and a Funeral The Hudsucker Proxy That Eye, the Sky 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 Genius Grimsby
As an actorElizabeth
ThanksThe Land Girls

''Following''

Television

Executive producer

Year	Title	Notes
1988	Echoes
1992	The Borrowers
1993	Tales of the City
1998	More Tales of the City
2001	Further Tales of the City
2003	About a Boy	Television pilot
2008	Frontline	Documentary
2007−10	The Tudors
2011	Love Bites
2011	The Borrowers	Television film
2012	Birdsong
2012	True Love
2013	Mary and Martha	Television film
2014	The Secrets
2014	About a Boy
2015	You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015	London Spy
2013−16	Yonderland
2017	Gypsy
2019	The Case Against Adnan Syed	Documentary
2019	Tales of the City
2020	The Luminaries
2019−20	Hanna
2021	We Are Lady Parts

Awards and honours

2005: Commander of the Order of the British Empire
2013 received the degree of Doctor honoris causa from The University of York
2018: Cinematic Production Award of the Royal Photographic Society