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Come this October, the British film producer David Puttnam will receive the Industry lifetime achievement award at the Rome Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This will be the fest's 20th edition, which will take place between October 15, 2025, to October 26, 2025. The last edition took place from October 16, 2024, to October 27, 2026.
Interestingly, the award was introduced this year, which makes David Puttnam the first one to receive the accolade. However, this isn't the first lifetime achievement award he has won. In 2006, Puttnam received the honour at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Puttnam has several popular films to his name. His Chariots of Fire even won big at the Academy Awards in 1981. He was also the head of Columbia Pictures for a couple of years, where he picked a few of the films, but only some of them were released during his tenure there.
Some popular films David Puttnam has produced
Among the several movies that he produced, Chariots of Fire (1981) is probably the best film on his shelf. The film is based on a true story and focuses on a couple of athletes, Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams. Out of its seven nominations at the Oscars, it won four of them, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
His 1984 production, The Killing Fields, which he co-produced with Iain Smith, was coincidentally nominated for seven Academy Awards too. However, it won three, unlike the above, though it did include one Oscar for Best Picture. The film isn't exactly a true story, but it is inspired by the experiences of a couple of journalists, Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg.
Yet another one of his productions, The Mission (1986), was nominated for, well, you guessed that right, seven Academy Awards. It just won one, though, the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. To this day, it is considered one of the greatest historical dramas of all time.
David Puttnam produced a couple of films in 1975 and 1976, among which one was a box office disaster and another a major hit.
Lisztomania (1975), a film he co-produced with Roy Baird and directed by Ken Russell, was a big flop. Sadly, after this film, Goodtimes Enterprises decided not to make more films with Ken. Ken's last film was a short called A Kitten for Hitler (2007).
On the other hand, his executively produced Bugsy Malone (1976) was a box office success and was a directorial debut for Alan Parker.
David Puttnam's other films include:
- Melody (1971)
- The Pied Piper (1972)
- That'll Be the Day (1973)
- The Duellists (1977)
- Midnight Express (1978)
- Local Hero (1982)
- Sharma and Beyond (1984)
- Memphis Belle (1990)
- Meeting Venus (1991)
- Being Human (1994)
- War of the Buttons (1994)
- My Life So Far (1999)
Some of the films he produced under Columbia Pictures include The Beast (1988), Hope and Glory (1987), and School Daze (1988).
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