Jeremy Dawson

Jeremy Dawson

Birth : , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

History

Jeremy Dawson is a Canadian-American film producer and visual effects artist. He was nominated for the Academy Award in the category of Best Picture for the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel at the 87th Academy Awards, as well as the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the stop-motion films Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Isle of Dogs(2018). With The Grand Budapest Hotel, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Dawson grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Jeremy Dawson

Movies

The Swan
Producer
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Producer
A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
Asteroid City
Producer
Set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
The Whale
Producer
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
The French Dispatch
Producer
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Uncanny Valley
Producer
After an experiment with artificial intelligence doesn't go according to plan, Lee realizes that what they've created to save mankind could be the very thing that ends up destroying it.
Isle of Dogs
Producer
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
La grande sortie
Producer
Prima ballerina takes the stage at the Ópera Bastille, consumed by her own anxiety and stage fright
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Producer
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Producer
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Face in the Crowd
Executive Producer
A woman on a journey through a crowd grapples with private and public revelation, repulsion, fear, personal safety, and the desire for basic human interaction.
La Petite Mort
Executive Producer
A woman experiences the boundaries of her body as she contemplates life, death and love.
Moonrise Kingdom
Producer
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Despair
Producer
After a phone call ends in despair, a young woman faces a fatal decision.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Producer
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Beaver's Son (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
The Darjeeling Limited
Co-Producer
Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Himself
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
The Fountain
Second Unit Director
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Visual Effects Supervisor
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
Pi
Title Designer
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Pi
Visual Effects
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Tropico
Executive Producer
Raymond is hired to spy on Mark, an American businessman, in a steamy coastal town in Northern Brazil. However, things get complicated when he falls simultaneously for Mark's wife, Lucia, and her identical twin sister, Lea.