Barry Spikings
Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood. Spikings is best known as a producer of the film The Deer Hunter (1978), which won five Academy Awards.
Biography
Spikings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. After leaving Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the Lincolnshire Standard, as a trainee reporter. Later he joined the Farmers' Weekly, where he won a Golden Ear award for a fifteen-minute film that he produced and directed himself.
Spikings then moved to the entertainment world. Initially, he promoted pop music festivals and later films.
British Lion and EMI
In 1972, he became the co-owner of British Lion Films; Spikings later joined EMI when it took over British Lion.[1] For the film, The Deer Hunter (1978), Spikings won an Academy Award for Best Picture. The film also garnered awards for several of its actors.[2]
Nelson Holdings
In 1985, Spikings formed a Canadian company, Nelson Holdings International, with British financier Richard Northcott, to purchase entertainment firms. Nelson later acquired the home video assets of Embassy Pictures from Coca-Cola and film production companies Galactic Films and the Spikings Corporation, and formed Nelson Entertainment.[3][4] Nelson had the North American home video rights and all international rights to the output from the newly-formed Castle Rock Entertainment.[5]
Spikings served as president of Nelson Entertainment through the early 1990s. Afterwards, he formed a production partnership with Eric Pleskow.[6]
Filmography
- 1975: Conduct Unbecoming (producer with Michael Deeley and Andrew Donally)
- 1976: The Man Who Fell to Earth (producer with Michael Deeley)
- 1978: Convoy (executive producer)
- 1978: The Deer Hunter (producer with Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, and John Peverall)
- Academy Awards 1978: Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), Director (Cimino), Film Editing, and Sound.
- 1990: Texasville (producer with Peter Bogdanovich)
- 1991: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (executive producer)
- 1991: Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (producer)[7]
- 1991: The Taking of Beverly Hills (executive producer)
- 1994: The Favor (executive producer)
- 1994: There Goes My Baby — also known as The Last Days of Paradise (executive producer)
- 1995: Beyond Rangoon (producer with John Boorman and Eric Pleskow)
- 2013: Lone Survivor (producer with Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Akiva Goldsman, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Vitaly Grigoriants)
References
- ^ "A film script for the City". The Independent. 20 October 1996. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ Biskind, Peter. "The Vietnam Oscars". The Hive. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ Seideman, Tony (16 August 1986). "$85 mil buys Embassy." Billboard (p. 102).
- ^ "Archives - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. 6 August 1986.
- ^ A film script for the City Griffiths, Ian. The Independent 20 Oct 1996: 7.
- ^ "Pleskow, Spikings partner for pix". 14 October 1992.
- ^ "IMDb - Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas". IMDb. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
External links
- Barry Spikings Archived 5 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- Barry Spikings at IMDb
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- Harold Hecht (1955)
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- Sam Spiegel (1957)
- Arthur Freed (1958)
- Sam Zimbalist (1959)
- Billy Wilder (1960)
- Robert Wise (1961)
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- Jack L. Warner (1964)
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- Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974)
- Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
- Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
- Charles H. Joffe (1977)
- Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978)
- Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
- Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
- David Puttnam (1981)
- Richard Attenborough (1982)
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- Saul Zaentz (1984)
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- Arnold Kopelson (1986)
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- Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
- Saul Zaentz (1996)
- James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
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- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
- David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
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- Martin Richards (2002)
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- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
- Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)