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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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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)
Academy Award-nominated The Favourite producer Lee Magiday has lined up boxing biopic In the Shadows for her newly launched banner Sleeper Films, teaming with Madeleine Sanderson (Being AP, Fighting for a City) of Curate Films, with backing from Film4.
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Jun 7, 2011 · Lee Magiday. Before joining Element in 2006, Lee Magiday was VP of acquisitions and production, Europe, for Focus Features, where she brought in projects including My Summer Of Love and...
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.
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...
