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Lee Magiday founded Sleeper Films to build a strong independent film & TV slate with compelling and resonant stories. Prior to Sleeper, Lee was a producer on Yorgos Lanthimos’ multi-award winning The Favourite starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.
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Jun 7, 2011 · In 2006, Element recruited Magiday, former VP of acquisitions and production, Europe, for Focus Features and an ex-PolyGram executive. She was eager to get back into production with a company...
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Lee Magiday is an American film producer. She began her career producing music videos in London before beginning work at Universal Pictures for 7 years as Director of Acquisitions. She then went on to Polygram Filmed Entertainment central acquisitions. From 2002 - 2005, she worked at Focus Features as VP of Acquisitions & Production - Europe overse...
91st Academy Awards, 2018 Best Picture — The Favourite (shared with Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, and Yorgos Lanthimos)
Nov 24, 2021 · Producers Lee Magiday (The Favourite, The Lobster) and Rory Gilmartin (Herself, Frank of Ireland) and screen industry completion guarantor Wilf Varvill have teamed to launch London- and Dublin-based prodco Sleeper Films.
2019 Winner AFI Award. Movie of the Year. THE FAVOURITE ascends the throne by capturing the sumptuous insanity of life behind castle walls and then raising a scepter to smash each scene with wicked laughs, an air of erotica, revenge and rabbits. Yorgos Lanthimos' brilliantly warped vision of history crowns a royal cast, including Olivia Colman ...
Nov 23, 2021 · Sleeper Films, the London and Dublin-based production company founded by The Favourite producer Lee Magiday, has revealed plans to ramp up its output across TV and film, with a refreshed slate...
