BBC Film
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| Formerly | BBC Films (1990–2020) |
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| Industry | Film |
| Founded | 18 June 1990 |
| Founders | David M. Thompson |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people | Rose Garnett Eva Yates |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Services | Film |
| Owner | BBC |
| Parent | BBC |
| Subsidiaries |
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| Website | bbc |
BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990,[5] and has produced or co-produced between eight to fifteen films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors.
Originally based in Mortimer Street, London.The company was founded as a wholly owned but independent film-making company by Mark Shivas as part of the Drama Department. David M. Thompson became its head in 1997.
A restructuring in 2007 integrated BBC Films into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and Thompson left to start his own film production company.[6] BBC Film has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013.[7] The company changed its name to BBC Film in 2020.[8][9]
In 2022 Eva Yates became head of BBC Film, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.[10]
Filmography
1990s
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Truly, Madly, Deeply | |
| Antonia and Jane | with Miramax Films | |
| 1991 | Enchanted April | |
| Edward II | ||
| The Reflecting Skin | ||
| 1992 | Sarafina! | |
| 1993 | The Hawk | |
| The Snapper | ||
| Much Ado About Nothing | co-produced with American Playhouse Theatrical Films, Renaissance Films | |
| 1994 | Captives | with Miramax Films & Distant Horizon |
| The Hour of the Pig | ||
| 1995 | I.D. | |
| Angus | ||
| Cold Comfort Farm | ||
| 1996 | Jude | |
| Small Faces | ||
| Twelfth Night: Or What You Will | ||
| Shine | ||
| 1997 | Twenty Four Seven | |
| I Went Down | ||
| My Son the Fanatic | ||
| Love and Death on Long Island | ||
| Mrs Dalloway | ||
| Mrs Brown | ||
| The Relic | ||
| 1998 | Gods and Monsters | |
| Hard Rain | ||
| A Simple Plan | ||
| Black Dog | ||
| The Governess | ||
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | ||
| 1999 | A Room for Romeo Brass | |
| Mansfield Park | ||
| Man on the Moon | ||
| RKO 281 |
2000s
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Wonder Boys |
| Wild About Harry | |
| Saltwater | |
| Maybe Baby | |
| Billy Elliot (with Working Title Films) | |
| Shadow of the Vampire (with Saturn Films) | |
| Isn't She Great | |
| Last Resort | |
| 2001 | Iris (with Miramax Films and Intermedia) |
| Born Romantic | |
| About Adam | |
| The Claim | |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | |
| 2002 | Anita and Me |
| Dirty Pretty Things | |
| In This World | |
| The Heart of Me | |
| Morvern Callar | |
| The Gathering Storm | |
| 2003 | The Statement |
| The Mother | |
| Masked and Anonymous | |
| Code 46 | |
| I Capture The Castle | |
| Deep Blue | |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life | |
| Kiss of Life | |
| Skagerrak | |
| 2004 | Bullet Boy |
| Millions | |
| Red Dust | |
| My Summer of Love | |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (with Company Pictures) | |
| Stage Beauty (with Qwerty Films and Tribeca Film) | |
| Trauma | |
| Undone (short) | |
| The Accidental Perfectionist | |
| 2005 | Opal Dream |
| Imagine Me & You | |
| Mrs Henderson Presents | |
| A Cock and Bull Story | |
| Match Point | |
| Shooting Dogs (co-production with UK Film Council) | |
| Love + Hate | |
| The Mighty Celt | |
| The Undertaker (short) | |
| 2006 | Notes on a Scandal |
| Starter for Ten | |
| Scoop | |
| Fast Food Nation | |
| The History Boys | |
| Confetti | |
| Miss Potter | |
| As You Like It (in association with HBO Films) | |
| Glastonbury | |
| Snow Cake | |
| Life and Lyrics | |
| Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart | |
| Shoot the Messenger | |
| 2007 | Four Last Songs |
| Eastern Promises (distributed and co-presented by Focus Features) | |
| Becoming Jane | |
| Earth (co-production with Disneynature) | |
| Grow Your Own | |
| Joe's Palace | |
| The Restraint of Beasts | |
| Capturing Mary | |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures) |
| Death Defying Acts | |
| The Duchess | |
| Brideshead Revisited | |
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | |
| The Other Boleyn Girl[11] | |
| The Edge of Love | |
| The Meerkats | |
| Is Anybody There? | |
| Man On Wire (as BBC Storyville) | |
| Shifty | |
| Easy Virtue | |
| Into the Storm: Churchill at War | |
| 2009 | Nativity! |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats | |
| Tormented | |
| Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | |
| The Damned United (co-production with Columbia Pictures) | |
| In the Loop | |
| Bright Star (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Pathé, UK Film Council, and Screen Australia) | |
| The Boys Are Back (co-production with Miramax Films, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Tiger Aspect Pictures, and Screen Australia) | |
| An Education | |
| Fish Tank | |
| Creation | |
| Glorious 39 |
2010s
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2010 | The First Grader (co-production with National Geographic Entertainment, Videovision Entertainment, & UK Film Council) |
| Made in Dagenham | |
| Tamara Drewe | |
| Edge of Darkness (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures and Icon Productions) | |
| StreetDance 3D (co-production with Phase 4 Films, Vertigo Films, & British Film Institute) | |
| Freestyle (co-production with Phase 4 Films, Revolver Entertainment, Film London Microwave, B19 Media, and UK Film Council) | |
| Africa United | |
| 2011 | The Awakening |
| Brighton Rock | |
| West Is West | |
| Jane Eyre | |
| Coriolanus | |
| My Week with Marilyn | |
| Project Nim | |
| The Iron Lady | |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | |
| We Need to Talk about Kevin | |
| One Life (as BBC Earth Films) | |
| The British Guide to Showing Off | |
| Ill Manors | |
| 2012 | Quartet |
| Shadow Dancer | |
| Spike Island | |
| Blood | |
| Good Vibrations | |
| Great Expectations | |
| In the Dark Half | |
| A Running Jump | |
| StreetDance 2 | |
| Strawberry Fields (co-production with Soda Pictures, Film London Microwave, Kent County Council Film Office, Screen South, Met Film Post, and UK Film Council) | |
| Perfect Sense | |
| 2013 | Philomena |
| Saving Mr. Banks[12] (co-production with Walt Disney Pictures) | |
| Dom Hemingway | |
| Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | |
| Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie (as BBC Earth Films) | |
| Broken | |
| Exhibition | |
| Flying Blind (co-production with Soda Pictures, iFeatures, Matador Pictures, Southwest Screen, Cinema Six, Regent Capital, The City of Bristol and Ignition Films) | |
| Borrowed Time (co-production with Film London Microwave, UK Film Council and Parkville Pictures) | |
| Big Men | |
| Ginger & Rosa | |
| Now Is Good | |
| London: The Modern Babylon (co-production with Cinedigm, British Film Institute and Nitrate Film) | |
| The Summit | |
| The Sea | |
| Kiss the Water (co-production with Virgil Films, Easy There Tiger, Slate Films, and Creative Scotland) | |
| The Challenger Disaster | |
| 2014 | A Little Chaos |
| A Long Way Down | |
| The Invisible Woman | |
| What We Did on Our Holiday | |
| Enchanted Kingdom (as BBC Earth Films, co-production with Reliance Entertainment, IM Global, & Evergreen Studios) | |
| Pride | |
| My Old Lady | |
| Lilting | |
| Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie | |
| 2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd |
| The Falling | |
| Woman in Gold | |
| Suite Française | |
| Testament of Youth | |
| Mr. Holmes | |
| X+Y | |
| Bill | |
| Brooklyn | |
| The Lady in the Van | |
| Man Up | |
| London Road | |
| Being AP (co-production with Entertainment One, Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, and Moneyglass Films) | |
| The Face of an Angel | |
| Spooks: The Greater Good | |
| 2016 | David Brent: Life on the Road |
| Florence Foster Jenkins | |
| Swallows and Amazons | |
| Denial | |
| My Scientology Movie[13] | |
| A United Kingdom[14] | |
| The Lovers and the Despot (as BBC Storyville) | |
| The Levelling | |
| Notes on Blindness | |
| I, Daniel Blake | |
| The Library Suicides (co-production with Soda Pictures, Edicis Films, S4C, Ffilm Cymru Wales and British Film Institute) | |
| The Lighthouse | |
| The Goob (co-production with Soda Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, British Film Institute, and EMU Films) | |
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | |
| 2017 | Viceroy's House[15] |
| City of Tiny Lights | |
| The Sense of an Ending | |
| Their Finest | |
| Lady Macbeth | |
| Victoria & Abdul | |
| Mindhorn | |
| Breathe | |
| Earth: One Amazing Day (as BBC Earth Films, co-production with Goldcrest Films International & SMG Pictures) | |
| Apostasy | |
| Spaceship (co-production with Breaking Glass Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, British Film Institute, Belly Productions, Parkville Pictures, and Trinity) | |
| Trophy (as BBC Storyville) | |
| 2018 | On Chesil Beach |
| Yardie | |
| The Children Act | |
| The Happy Prince | |
| Out of Blue | |
| In Fabric | |
| Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | |
| Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | |
| 2019 | Blue Story |
| Dirty God | |
| Little Joe | |
| Stan & Ollie[16] | |
| Sorry We Missed You | |
| The Aftermath | |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | |
| The Souvenir | |
| The White Crow | |
| Monsoon | |
| Judy | |
| Be Still My Beating Heart (co-production with Creative Scotland, Scottish Film Talent Network, & barry crerar) | |
| Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | |
| They Shall Not Grow Old | |
| Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans |
2020s
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| The Nest | |
| Surge | |
| His House | |
| Mogul Mowgli | |
| Misbehaviour | |
| The Roads Not Taken | |
| Ammonite | |
| Supernova | |
| Lynn + Lucy | |
| Aisha and Abhaya (co-production with Royal Opera House, Rambert Dance Company, Arts Council England, & Robin Saunders) | |
| 2021 | After Love |
| The Mauritanian | |
| True Things | |
| Ear for Eye | |
| The Power of the Dog | |
| Pirates | |
| The Souvenir Part II | |
| The Phantom of the Open | |
| Cow | |
| Body of Water (co-production with Verve Pictures, Film London Microwave, British Film Institute, Lions Den Films, Bright Shadow Films, and Boudica Films) | |
| Here Before | |
| Herself | |
| The Year Earth Changed | |
| 9/11: Inside the President's War Room | |
| River | |
| Can't Get You Out of My Head (documentary series) | |
| People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan | |
| 2022 | Aisha |
| Ali & Ava | |
| Benediction | |
| God's Creatures | |
| Aftersun | |
| Triangle of Sadness | |
| The Lost King | |
| Allelujah | |
| The Eternal Daughter | |
| The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (short) | |
| Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (documentary series) | |
| 2023 | Girl |
| Blue Jean | |
| Medusa Deluxe | |
| Rye Lane | |
| Scrapper | |
| Club Zero | |
| Femme | |
| The Old Oak | |
| In Camera | |
| Silver Haze | |
| Sweet Sue | |
| Silent Roar | |
| Chuck Chuck Baby | |
| Tuesday | |
| Janet Planet | |
| Hoard | |
| One Life | |
| The End We Start From | |
| The Great Escaper | |
| The Iron Claw | |
| 2024 | The Outrun |
| Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | |
| Edge of Summer | |
| Bird | |
| On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | |
| Santosh | |
| September Says | |
| Lollipop | |
| Harvest | |
| The Salt Path | |
| On Falling | |
| The Severed Sun | |
| 2025 | Dreamers |
| Christy | |
| Urchin | |
| My Father's Shadow | |
| Pillion | |
| Sentimental Value | |
| Ish | |
| Hamlet | |
| Straight Circle | |
| The Choral | |
| Palestine 36 | |
| The Son and the Sea | |
| Retreat | |
| 2026 | Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man |
| The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford |
Upcoming
- Chork
- Flesh[17]
- Fonda
- Ghosts: The Possession of Button House
- I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
- Mission
- Pretend I'm Not Here
- The End of It
- The Entertainment System Is Down
- The Roots Manoeuvre
See also
- Film4 Productions – British film production company
References
- ^ "BBC Documentary Arm Storyville moves under BBC Film remit". Screen Daily. 26 October 2020.
- ^ "IFeatures".
- ^ a b "A bold new vision for BBC Films".
- ^ "Film London, BFI, and BBC's Microwave Commissions Films from Female & Non-Binary Directors".
- ^ "BBC Films: Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema in 2015". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ "David Thompson to leave Head of BBC Films role to launch new company". BBC. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House". BBC. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ "BBC Films becomes BBC Film - but the dodgy BBC logo remains". Clean Feed. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ^ Wiseman, Andreas (3 December 2020). "'Harriet' Actress Cynthia Erivo To Star In & Produce Story Of Princess "Gifted" To Queen Victoria; BBC Film, Benedict Cumberbatch's SunnyMarch & So So Producing". Deadline. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ^ "Eva Yates appointed new Director of BBC Film". BBC Media Centre. 4 May 2022.
- ^ "BBC – The Other Boleyn Girl – BBC Films".
- ^ "BBC Films unveils upcoming slate at Cannes". BBC. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ "BBC - My Scientology Movie - BBC Films". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016.
- ^ "BBC – A United Kingdom – BBC Films".
- ^ "Upcoming Films".
- ^ Lodderhose, Diana (17 February 2016). "eOne Boards Steve Coogan-John C. Reilly's Laurel and Hardy Biopic 'Stan & Ollie'".
- ^ Clarke, Stewart (12 November 2025). "David Szalay's Booker Prize-Winning Novel 'Flesh' Set For Movie Adaptation From 'Conclave' Producer House". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
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