Nigel Sinclair

Nigel Sinclair, CBE (born 31 March 1948) is a British producer of Hollywood films.

Early life

Sinclair was born in Corbridge, Northumberland, England. His family moved to Galloway, in southwest Scotland, a few years later where he grew up. He went to boarding school at Monkton Combe School in England. In 1966, he attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating in 1969. After a short stint working as a researcher for the Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge, he qualified as a lawyer with the London firm then known as Denton, Hall and Burgin. He practiced law in London and subsequently in the Middle East until 1980.

Sinclair attended Columbia University School of Law in New York and obtained a LAM in International Legal Studies, and qualified for the State Bar of California. In 1989, Sinclair founded his own firm, Sinclair Tennenbaum & Co., in Los Angeles. He practiced entertainment law until he retired from that practice in 1996 to found Intermedia with Guy East.

Film career

In 2014, Sinclair founded documentary, television and film company White Horse Pictures alongside East with partners Nicholas Ferrall, Cassidy Hartmann and Jeanne Elfant Festa. With White Horse Pictures, Sinclair has produced a series acclaimed documentaries, including Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years and Pavarotti, The Apollo (exec) directed by Roger Ross Williams, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart directed by Frank Marshall, and Amy Poehler's documentary directorial debut Lucy and Desi.

Prior to launching White Horse Pictures, Sinclair was the CEO and co-chairman of Exclusive Media, a global independent film company that financed, produced and globally distributed feature films and documentaries. With Exclusive, Sinclair produced Parkland and End of Watch.

In addition, Sinclair was executive producer on Ron Howard's epic action-thriller Rush, set in the world of Formula 1 auto racing. Along with Michael Shevloff and Paul Crowder, Sinclair also produced the documentary 1, the authorized history of Formula 1.

Previously, Sinclair served as executive producer on George Clooney's The Ides of March, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature Undefeated, produced by Exclusive Media's documentary production arm Spitfire Pictures. Sinclair also served as an executive producer on the Hammer Films production and box-office hit The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

Sinclair's other film credits include Peter Weir's The Way Back, starring Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris; Sliding Doors, starring Gwyneth Paltrow; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Alan Parker's The Life of David Gale, starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.

Prior to co-founding Exclusive Media, Sinclair and Guy East (who is also co-chairman of White Horse Pictures), founded Intermedia Films in 1996, which grew to become one of the world's leading independent film companies. After their departure in 2002, Sinclair and East then founded Spitfire Pictures, which was merged with Hammer to form Exclusive Media in 2008.

Under the Spitfire Pictures label Sinclair produced (along with Olivia Harrison) the award-winning George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Martin Scorsese's biographical film about the life of George Harrison, which won an Emmy. He also produced the Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home, also directed by Scorsese, which won an Emmy, two Grammy Awards, a Peabody Award and a DuPont.

In 2012, Sinclair won his second Grammy for Foo Fighters: Back and Forth and in 2007 he was nominated for a Grammy for Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who. Sinclair won his first Grammy in 2006 for No Direction Home.

His company Spitfire Pictures had been involved with Tongal since 2013, working with the company to crowd-source a documentary. According to the Los Angeles Times, Tongal users will submit pitch ideas, with Spitfire selecting the top five, and awarding one the winning idea before distributing the final project.

Personal life

In 1981, Sinclair married Pat Craig and together they have one child in addition to Pat's two children.

Sinclair is active in a number of charities including the Santa Monica-based charity k9 Connection. Sinclair is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BAFTA, having served on the board of directors for BAFTA LA many times. Sinclair's principal hobby is as an amateur musician playing guitar and collecting guitars.

Filmography He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film Year Film Credit 1988 The Blue Iguana Executive producer 1989 Kill Me Again Executive producer Fear, Anxiety & Depression 1990 Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? Executive producer A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha Executive producer 1992 Minbo Executive producer 1993 Daibyonin Co-executive producer 1998 Sliding Doors Executive producer Hilary and Jackie Executive producer Clay Pigeons Executive producer Playing by Heart Executive producer 1999 Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Executive producer 2000 Love's Labour's Lost Executive producer Where the Money Is Executive producer Up at the Villa Co-executive producer Company Man Co-executive producer 2001 Enigma Executive producer The Wedding Planner Executive producer Blow Dry Executive producer 2002 K-19: The Widowmaker Executive producer The Quiet American Executive producer Dark Blue Executive producer 2003 National Security Executive producer Masked and Anonymous The Life of David Gale Executive producer Basic Executive producer Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Executive producer 2004 Mindhunters Executive producer Suspect Zero Executive producer 2009 Possession 2010 The Way Back Let Me In Executive producer 2011 The Resident Executive producer The Ides of March Executive producer 2012 The Woman in Black Executive producer End of Watch So Undercover 2013 Snitch Parkland Rush Executive producer Begin Again Executive producer 2014 The Quiet Ones Executive producer A Walk Among the Tombstones Executive producer The Woman in Black: Angel of Death Executive producer 2015 Dark Places Executive producer 2023 Haunting of the Queen Mary Producer

Documentary

Miscellaneous crew

Year Film Role 1996 Mojave Moon Business affairs

Thanks

Year Film Role 1990 Wild at Heart Special thanks Hamlet 1991 K2 With special thanks to 1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise The producers wish to express their special thanks to 1995 Braveheart The producers wish to thank 1998 The Land Girls Thanks

Television

Accolades