Graham King is an English film producer. He has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the films The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and The Departed (2006), for which he won.

Career

King is president and CEO of production company GK Films. He is best known for his 2006 crime thriller film The Departed, which was awarded the Best Picture Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards, and for Bohemian Rhapsody, which was nominated for five awards including Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards, winning four. King's multiple commercial successes as a producer include The Departed (which grossed $289.8 million worldwide), The Tourist ($278.3 million), and Bohemian Rhapsody, which grossed over US$910 million worldwide against a production budget of about US$50 million. Bohemian Rhapsody ultimately became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide, the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time, and in 2022 was listed as one of 20th Century Fox's top five highest-grossing films worldwide.

Honours

King was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

Filmography

Film

Producer Executive producer

Television

Executive producer