Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas has died aged 77, according to BBC News. His publicist said the British filmmaker “passed away peacefully” surrounded by family and loved ones at his Oxfordshire home on Friday. The report has not been independently confirmed here.
Thomas produced Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, which won nine Academy Awards, including best picture, earning him an Oscar as producer. He later collaborated with Bertolucci on The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers.
His other credits included Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing and Eureka, and adaptations of JG Ballard’s Crash and High-Rise. He also backed early work by British directors including Ben Wheatley, Jonathan Glazer, Stephen Frears and David Mackenzie, the BBC reports.
Thomas began in the cutting room before taking his first production role on the 1976 Australian film Mad Dog Morgan. He received the European Film Academy’s Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema award in 2006 and was made a CBE in 2009.
His latest collaboration with Japanese director Takashi Miike, Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, is due to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday, according to the BBC. For global film audiences, that places news of Thomas’s death alongside one of his final reported production credits.
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