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David Heyman
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Heyman at the 92nd Academy Awards
4 Nominations
Role Producer
Born July 26, 1961
London, England, UK
 

David Heyman is a British film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. In 1999, Heyman secured the film rights to the Harry Potter film series and went on to produce all eight installments. He got his start in the film industry as a production assistant on A Passage to India (1984), and in 1986, he became a creative executive at Warner Brothers. In the late '80s, he became vice president of United Artists and subsequently embarked on an independent producing career. In 2005, Heyman was the executive producer of the CBS television series "Threshold", while notable recent productions include the 2007 blockbuster I Am Legend, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) and Gravity (2013).

Nominations[]

86th Academy Awards, 2013
Best PictureGravity (shared with Alfonso Cuarón)
92nd Academy Awards, 2019
Best PictureMarriage Story (shared with Noah Baumbach)
Best PictureOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood (shared with Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino)
96th Academy Awards, 2023
Best PictureBarbie (shared with Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner)


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