Emile Sherman

Emile Paul Sherman (born June 1972) is an Australian film and television producer best known for producing the film The King's Speech, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA award for Best Film and Best British Film, and for executive producing television series Top of the Lake, which was nominated for an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe award. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won one; nominated for five BAFTAs and won three, and nominated for two Emmy Awards and won one.

Emile co-founded See-Saw Films with producing partner Iain Canning in 2008. Their offices are based in Sydney, Australia and London, UK.

Early life and education Emile Sherman graduated from the University of New South Wales with degrees in arts and law, as well as a masters in arts. He is Jewish.

Career

Sherman was co-executive producer on Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), starring Kenneth Branagh and directed by Phillip Noyce. Feature films produced by him in the 2000s include Candy (2006) starring Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush, and Disgrace (2008) based on J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name.

Sherman co-founded See-Saw Films with UK producer Iain Canning in 2008. The second series, Top of the Lake: China Girl, also directed by Campion, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.

In 2016 Sherman produced Lion,

In 2019, Sherman produced short-form British comedy series, State of the Union, which premiered on Sundance TV. The first season starred Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd and won three Emmy Awards including Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. In 2021, the series was renewed for a second season starring Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson.

In 2021, two TV series produced by Sherman were released: British TV series The North Water, written and directed by Andrew Haigh, starring Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell, and Australian TV series Firebite, written by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher and directed by Thornton, Fletcher and Tony Krawitz.

In November 2021, Netflix released The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, See-Saw's second collaboration with Jane Campion.

Other roles In addition to his Managing Director role at See-Saw Films, Sherman is a director of Fulcrum Media Finance, a subsidiary of the company. Fulcrum Media Finance is a specialist film and television financier, providing cashflow for the Australian Producer Offset, Location and PDV Offsets as well as the New Zealand Screen Production Grant and the United Kingdom Film Tax Credit. Fulcrum has provided over $200 million in finance to film and television projects to date.

In 2019, Sherman and Canning teamed up with Garth Davis to form a new production company called I AM THAT, with Samantha Lang as head of development.

Sherman is also a director of animal protection institute Voiceless, and a director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

In 2021, Sherman launched a podcast with Lloyd Vogelman called Principle of Charity. In the podcast, the hosts bring together two expert guests with opposing views on big social issues, and in addition to passionately advocating their own views, each guest is challenged to present the best, most generous version of the other’s argument.

In December 2024, he was appointed to the Art Gallery of NSW Board of Trustees.

Awards 2011: Academy Award for The King's Speech directed by Tom Hooper, starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. Uncle Chatzkel Rod Freedman 2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence Phillip Noyce Abe Forsythe The Honourable Wally Norman Ted Emery Andrew JonesRick Kalowski The Night We Called It a Day Paul Goldman Peter CliftonMichael Thomas 2004 Oyster Farmer Anna Reeves Anna Reeves

Candy Neil Armfield Neil Armfield Luke Davies Nominated – AFI Award for Best Film Opal Dream Peter Cattaneo Peter Cattaneo Ben Rice Phil Traill

$9.99 Tatia Rosenthal Etgar KeretTatia Rosenthal Disgrace Steve Jacobs Anna Maria Monticelli Nominated – FCCA Award for Best Film 2009 Linear Anton Corbijn

Oranges and Sunshine Jim Loach Rona Munro Nominated – AACTA Award for Best FilmNominated – AFI Members' Choice AwardNominated – FCCA Award for Best FilmNominated – Inside Film Award for Best Feature Film South Solitary Shirley Barrett Shirley Barrett The Kings of Mykonos Peter Andrikidis Nominated – AFI Readers' Choice Award The King's Speech Tom Hooper David Seidler Academy Award for Best PictureBAFTA Award for Best FilmAlexander Korda Award for Best British FilmPGA Award for Best Theatrical Motion PictureNominated – ACCA Award for Best Motion PictureNominated – Davis Award for Best Motion PictureNominated – EDA Award for Best PictureNominated – European Film Award for Best FilmNominated – Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Film 2011 Shame Steve McQueen Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan Nominated – Alexander Korda Award for Best British FilmNominated – Black Reel Award for Best FilmNominated – European Film Award for Best FilmNominated – Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Film 2012 Dead Europe Tony Krawitz Louise Fox Nominated – AACTA Award for Best FilmNominated – FCCA Award 2013 Tracks John Curran Marion Nelson Nominated – AACTA Award for Best FilmNominated – AFCA Award for Best FilmNominated – FCCA Award

Life Anton Corbijn Luke Davies Macbeth Justin Kurzel Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie, Todd Louiso Mr. Holmes Bill Condon Jeffrey Hatcher Slow West John Maclean John Maclean 2016 Lion Garth Davis Luke Davies Nominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNominated – AACTA International Award for Best FilmNominated – Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best PictureNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – DramaNominated – Online Film & Television Association Award for Best FilmNominated – PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Film

How to Talk to Girls at Parties John Cameron Mitchell Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell

Mary Magdalene Garth Davis Helen Edmundson, Philippa Goslett Widows Steve McQueen Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen 2019 The Day Shall Come Chris Morris Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong 2020 Ammonite Francis Lee Francis Lee 2021 The Power of the Dog Jane Campion Jane Campion BAFTA Award for Best FilmGolden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – DramaCritics' Choice Movie Award for Best PictureNominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNominated – PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Operation Mincemeat John Madden Michelle Ashford Post-production The Stranger Thomas M. Wright Thomas M. Wright Premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 75th Cannes Film Festival The Son Florian Zeller Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton 2026 Tenzing Jennifer Peedom Luke Davies Post-production

Television AACTA Award for Best Telefeature or Miniseries

New Zealand Film and TV Awards for Best Television Feature or Drama

Music Videos