Colin Callender

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Colin Callender

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Colin Callender was born in 1952 and is 72 years old now.

Birthday: 1952
How Old - Age: 72

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Colin Callender - Biography

Colin Callender is Chairman of Playground LLC a film, television and theater production company founded in 2010.A pioneering film and television executive who played a central role in HBO's unprecedented commercial and critical success and before that as an award winning producer in the UK, Callender has helped transform the entertainment landscape, setting new benchmarks for quality film and television production.One of the founders of HBO's Programming Group, Callender helped turn HBO into an innovative and groundbreaking programming powerhouse. As president of HBO Films from its inception in 1999 through 2009, he was responsible for overseeing the development and production of all filmsboth theatrical and for the service - and miniseries under the HBOFilms banner.Over the course of his tenure this included an unprecedented range of prestigious award-winning dramas.Callender was also the driving force behind the creation of Picturehouse, the distribution company that released Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth, Best Foreign Language nominee Yesterday, and La Vie En Rose, whose star Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress Oscar.Under Callender's leadership, HBO Films garnered numerous awards including 104 Emmy Awards (including best movie 14 out of the last 16 years), 29 Golden Globes (including best movie 10 out of the last 12 years), 9 Peabody Awards, 12 Humanitas Awards, 3 Oscars, and top awards at the Sundance Film Festival four years in a row (Rocket Science, Maria Full of Grace, American Splendor, and Real Women Have Curves) as well as the Palme D'Or in Cannes.Born and raised in England, Colin Callender started in the entertainment industry as a member of Britain's National Youth Theatre and began his production career as a stage manager at the Royal Court Theatre in London, working with directors such as David Hare, Sam Shepard and Mike Leigh. He later joined Granada Television as a graduate trainee.In 1979 as managing director of Primetime Television Ltd - the leading UK independent production company - he was the first independent producer to have a production green-lighted by the newly formed UK network CHANNEL 4 - the nine-hour television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's landmark stage production The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, for which he won an Emmy in 1983.Later in 1983, Callender launched The Callender Company Ltd., which quickly established itself as one of the UK's leading television and film producers. Its productions included Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect the official British entry to the 1987 Cannes Film Festival; John Schlesinger's Madame Sousatzka starring Shirley MacLaine; The Bretts a 13-hour mini-series for Masterpiece Theatre, Mr. Halpern AND Mr. Johnson with Jackie Gleeson and Sir Laurence Olivier. Callender also created and produced the long running talk show The Last Resort which launched the career of British TV personality Jonathan Ross and the hit quiz game Scrabble for Channel Four.In 1988, Callender moved to New York to head up HBO Showcase, HBO's newly formed East coast film production unit. The division launched the directing career of Forest Whitaker and featured the emerging talents of Rosie Perez and Cuba Gooding, Jr., among others, while garnering HBO's first Emmy Award for drama.In January 1996, Callender became the driving force behind the creation of HBO NYC, the movie division launched by then HBO chairman Jeff Bewkes. HBO NYC quickly made its mark with a distinguished award winning slate of films including Miss Evers' Boys, starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne (1997 Golden Globe Award and the coveted President's Award); A Lesson Before Dying, with Don Cheadle, (1999 Best Movie Emmy; as well as the first honor ever bestowed on a TV movie by the National Board of Review); If These Walls Could Talk, executive produced by Demi Moore, who starred with Cher and Sissy Spacek; In the Gloaming, starring Glenn Close; and Subway Stories, executive produced by Jonathan Demme. Callender relocated to Los Angeles in 1999, when he became president of HBO Films.Callender currently serves on the boards of The Public Theater in NY, Philip Seymour Hoffman's Labyrinth Theater Company, The Creative Coalition and the American Friends of The National Film School. He is also a Trustee of NYU Tisch School of The Arts, the American Cinematheque, and the New York branch of the British Academy Film and Television Arts.Callender was the recipient of the Evelyn F. Burkey Award at the 54th Annual Writers Guild Awards for services to writers; the Anti-Defamation League's Humanitarian Award; the first ever Sundance Creative Coalition Award for independent production; the prestigious Geffen Distinction in Theater Award for services to the theater; the Jacob Burns Film Center Vision Award; and the Humanitas Award for his continued work in the arts.In June 2003, Callender was honored by Her Majesty the Queen of England when he was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honors list for his services to the UK film and television industries in the US.Born in London in 1952, Callender holds a BA with Honors in Philosophy and Politics from the University of East Anglia. He is married to attorney Elizabeth Gaine with whom he has two daughters. He has a teenage son from a prior marriage.

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