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Graham King

British film producer

Graham King is a British film producer. He has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the films The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and The Departed (2006), for the last of which he won the award.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Graham King (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Dec 19, 1961.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedAshmole Academy3

Career

Occupation: film producer.6

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 (which grossed $289.8 million worldwide), The Tourist ($278.3 million), and Bohemian Rhapsody, which grossed over $910 million worldwide against a production budget of about $50 million. Bohemian Rhapsody ultimately became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide, the second 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Graham King (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • BornDec 19, 1961, London7
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom8

Awards

  • 2007Academy Award for Best Picture for The Departed9 10
  • Date not recordedOfficer of the Order of the British Empire9

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