BBC Film

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 some of the most successful British films of recent years, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Quartet, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Saving Mr. Banks, My Week with Marilyn, Eastern Promises, Match Point, Jane Eyre, In the Loop, An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, The History Boys, Nativity!, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, Philomena, Stan & Ollie, Man Up, Billy Elliot and Brooklyn.

BBC Film

Formerly	BBC Films (1990–2020)
Industry	Film
Founded	18 June 1990; 34 years ago (18 June 1990)
Founders	David M. Thompson
Headquarters	Broadcasting House, London , England
Area served	United Kingdom
Key people	Rose Garnett Eva Yates
Products	Motion pictures
Services	Film
Owner	BBC
Parent	BBC
Subsidiaries	Storyville[1] iFeatures (with Creative England, the British Film Institute and ScreenSkills)[2][3] Microwave (with Film London and the British Film Institute)[4][3] BBC Earth Films (with BBC Earth)
Website	bbc.co.uk/bbcfilm

BBC Film co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Eva Yates is head of BBC Film, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.^[6]

The company was founded in 1990 by Mark Shivas as part of the Drama Department, with David M. Thompson becoming its head in 1997 as a wholly owned but independent film-making company, based in offices in Mortimer Street, London. A restructuring in 2007 integrated it 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.^[7] BBC Film has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013.^[8] The company changed its name to BBC Film in 2020.^[9][10]

Productions

1990s

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

1994

• Captives (with Miramax Films & Distant Horizon)
• The Hour of the Pig

1995

• I.D.
• Angus

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

• RKO 281
• A Room for Romeo Brass
• Mansfield Park
• Man on the Moon

2000s

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 Films)
• Born Romantic
• About Adam
• The Claim
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2002

• The Gathering Storm
• Anita and Me
• Dirty Pretty Things
• In This World
• The Heart of Me
• Morvern Callar

2003

• The Statement
• Kiss of Life
• The Mother
• Skagerrak
• Masked and Anonymous
• Code 46
• I Capture The Castle
• Deep Blue
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life

2004

• Undone (short)
• The Accidental Perfectionist
• 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

2005

• The Undertaker (short)
• 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

2006

• Notes on a Scandal
• Starter for Ten
• Scoop
• Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
• Fast Food Nation
• The History Boys
• Confetti
• Shoot the Messenger
• Miss Potter
• As You Like It (in association with HBO Films)
• Glastonbury
• Snow Cake
• Life and Lyrics

2007

• Joe's Palace
• The Restraint of Beasts
• Four Last Songs
• Capturing Mary
• Eastern Promises (distributed and co-presented by Focus Features)
• Becoming Jane
• Earth (co-production with Disneynature)
• Grow Your Own

2008

• Churchill at War
• 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

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

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)
• The Challenger Disaster
• 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)

2014

• Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
• 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

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

2016

• David Brent: Life on the Road
• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
• 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)

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)

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
• Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
• 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)

2020s

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
• Can't Get You Out of My Head (documentary series)
• People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
• 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

2022

• Aisha
• Ali & Ava
• Benediction
• God's Creatures
• Aftersun
• Triangle of Sadness
• The Lost King
• Allelujah
• The Eternal Daughter
• 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

Upcoming

• The Choral^[17]
• Christy
• Dreamers
• The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
• The Immortal Man
• Mission
• Pillion
• Sentimental Value

See also

• BBC portal

• BBC

References

1. "BBC Documentary Arm Storyville moves under BBC Film remit". Screen Daily. 26 October 2020.
2. "IFeatures".
3. "A bold new vision for BBC Films".
4. "Film London, BFI, and BBC's Microwave Commissions Films from Female & Non-Binary Directors".
5. "BBC Films: Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema in 2015". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
6. "Eva Yates appointed new Director of BBC Film". BBC Media Centre. 4 May 2022.
7. "David Thompson to leave Head of BBC Films role to launch new company". BBC. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
8. "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House". BBC. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
9. "BBC Films becomes BBC Film - but the dodgy BBC logo remains". Clean Feed. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
10. 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.
11. "BBC – The Other Boleyn Girl – BBC Films".
12. "BBC Films unveils upcoming slate at Cannes". BBC. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
13. "BBC - My Scientology Movie - BBC Films". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016.
14. "BBC – A United Kingdom – BBC Films".
15. "Upcoming Films".
16. Lodderhose, Diana (17 February 2016). "eOne Boards Steve Coogan-John C. Reilly's Laurel and Hardy Biopic 'Stan & Ollie'".
17. Hipes, Patrick (20 March 2024). "Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent & Simon Russell Beale To Star In Nicholas Hytner-Alan Bennett Reteam 'The Choral'; SPC Lands Rights". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 March 2024.

External links

• BBC Film at BBC Online