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The Rome Film Fest will honor British producer David Puttnam with its inaugural Industry lifetime achievement award at the opening ceremony of the festival\u2019s 20th edition, running October 15\u201326.<\/p>\n
The award, created this year to recognize leading figures in the global film industry, will be presented to Puttnam by producer, director, and screenwriter Uberto Pasolini, who began his career with Puttnam as a location scout on The Killing Fields.<\/p>\n
More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n A true producing legend, Puttnam\u2019s long list of credits includes 4 Oscar best picture nominees: Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire <\/a>(that year\u2019s winner), The Killing Fields, and The Mission. His work has earned a combined total of ten Academy Awards, ten Golden Globes, twenty-five BAFTAs, and nine Emmys, as well as one Palme d\u2019Or (for Roland Joff\u00e9\u2019s The Mission).<\/p>\n Born in London in 1941, Puttnam began producing films in the early 1970s with titles such as Melody (1971), The Pied Piper (1972), and That\u2019ll Be the Day (1973). He set up Enigma Productions in 1978 and went on to collaborate with directors including Alan Parker <\/a>(Bugsy Malone), Ken Russell (Mahler), Adrian Lyne <\/a>(Foxes) and Ridley Scott<\/a> (The Duelist), kick-starting a new wave of British filmmakers that would hold sway over Hollywood in the 1980s.<\/p>\n Puttnam was briefly a studio head, running Columbia Pictures from 1986 to 1987, where he favored low-budget films from up-and-coming auteurs \u2014\u00a0like Spike Lee\u2019s School Daze over obvious blockbusters. Returning to the U.K., he continued to produce independent features, with such movies as Michael Caton-Jones\u2019 Memphis Belle (1990) and Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3\u2019s Meeting Venus (1991).<\/p>\n In the late 90s, Puttnam shifted his focus to politics and was elected to the House of Lords in 1997. He retired from Parliament in 2021 but remains active in education through Atticus Education, which provides audiovisual seminars worldwide.<\/p>\n Puttnam has held leadership roles with the Film Distributors\u2019 Association and the National Film and Television School, and has been honored by BAFTA, the British Film Institute and the Royal Television Society. He also serves as UNICEF UK ambassador, WWF global ambassador, and is an associate professor at University College Cork.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Rome Film Fest will honor British producer David Puttnam with its inaugural Industry lifetime achievement award at the opening ceremony of the festival\u2019s 20th edition, running October 15\u201326. The award, created this year to recognize leading figures in the global film industry, will be presented to Puttnam by producer, director, and screenwriter Uberto Pasolini, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[346426,372188,348779,31190,372189,372190],"class_list":["post-2023414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-british-film-institute","tag-david-puttnam","tag-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-the-hollywood-reporter","tag-the-killing-fields","tag-uberto-pasolini"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rome-Film-Fest-Honors-\u2018Chariots-of-Fire-\u2018Killing-Fields-Producer.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}