- Went to Sidcot School.
- Co-founded Working Title Productions with Sarah Radclyffe (1984)
- Co-chairman of "Working Title Films" with his friend Eric Fellner.
- He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to the film industry.
- With Eric Fellner, ranked #9 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
- Former son-in-law of director Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave. Former brother-in-law of Carlo Gabriel Nero, Katherine Grimond and Natasha Richardson.
- Producer or executive producer for nine Best Picture Oscar nominees: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Fargo (1996), Elizabeth (1998), Atonement (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), A Serious Man (2009), Les Misérables (2012), The Theory of Everything (2014) and Darkest Hour (2017).
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