Biography

Martin Pope has produced four Oscar nominated films - animated feature 'Chico & Rita' and animated shorts 'The Gruffalo' , 'Room on the Broom' and 'Revolting Rhymes'.

Recent animated productions include the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated The Gruffalo; the BAFTA-nominated The Gruffalo's Child; the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Room on the Broom; the BAFTA nominated Stick Man; the Oscar-nominated, and BAFTA and International Emmy winning, Revolting Rhymes; the Rose d'or winning The Highway Rat; the International Emmy winning Zog and BAFTA-winning The Snail and the Whale.

'Chico & Rita', the animated musical feature directed by Fernando Trueba with star designer Xavier Mariscal and Tono Errando won the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature as well as Spain's Goya for Best Animated Feature.

Martin has produced ten feature films, including documentary 'One Life', narrated by Daniel Craig; the comedy 'Wild Target' with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, and Martin Freeman; and 'Glorious 39' with Romola Garai, Julie Christie, Christopher Lee and Eddie Redmayne.

Previously Martin produced two films with writer/director team Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger - 'Lawless Heart' and 'Sparkle'; as well as feature films 'The Cottage' (with Andy Serkis); 'Touch Of Pink' (starring Kyle Maclachlan); 'The Heart of Me' (starring Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams); and 'Alive & Kicking'. For TV, he produced 'The Turn of the Screw' (starring Colin Firth).

Prior to co-founding and running Magic Light Pictures, Martin ran his own independent company and before that was a producer at BBC Films. While there producing credits included director John Madden's 'Meat' and director John Schlesinger's BAFTA award winning film of Alan Bennett's 'A Question of Attribution'.
- IMDb mini biography by: CR