Performer

Tim Bevan

Producer in the Nutevio catalogue.

Born: 20 December 1957
Age: 68
Active: 1992–present
Known for: Producer

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Producer · 80
Executive Producer · 28
Actor · 3

The essay

Reading Tim Bevan

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Tim Bevan has 0 productions in the Nutevio catalogue. Timothy John Bevan, CBE (born 20 December 1957) is a New Zealand-British film producer and the co-chairman (with Eric Fellner) of the production company Working Title Films. Bevan and Fellner are the most successful British producers of their era. Through 2017, his co-produced films have grossed almost $7 billion worldwide. As of 2017, films by Working Title Films have won 12 Academy Awards and 39 British Academy Film Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Bevan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, a complete list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Bevan set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.