Nicolas Celis (born 15 October 1986) is a Mexican film producer . He received a nomination for the Academy Awards for best film for his work as a producer in the film Roma , alongside Alfonso Cuaron and Gabriela Rodriguez . For the same film he received four BAFTA Awards, the award for Best International Film at the British Independent Film Awards , ^{[1] [2]} two Golden Globes and three Academy Awards In 2017, the producer was named "Talent to watch", by The Hollywood Reporter ^[3]

Career [ edit ]

Among his first works is the drama-horror feature film, We Are What We Are directed by Jorge Michel Grau, who competed for the Camera d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival . This film had an American remake directed by Jim Mickle in 2013. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

In 2015, he collaborated as executive producer of Desierto , Jonas Cuaron , ^[7] with Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan , movie that won he FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto Film Festival. Later on he produced Tatiana Huezo ´s documentary Tempestad (2016), a film which was selected by the AMACC to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as well as the Goya Award . ^{[8] [9]}

He has collaborated in several Amat Escalante films, such as Heli (2013) which won the Palme d'Or for best direction and The Untamed (2016) , feature film which premiered at the Venice Film Festival .

Among his most recent co-productions is Birds of Passage , directed by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, this film was selected to open the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. Another co-production, Holy Beasts , by directors Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzman, premiered in the Panorama section in the 2019 Berlinale .

He has participated in meetings and workshops like Cannes Producer's Network and Torino FilmLab , among others. Most recently he served on the main jury for the Shanghai International Film Festival . ^{[10] [11] [12]}

Filmography [ edit ]

• Ex-Husbands (2023) - producer ^[13]
• Holy Beasts (2019) - producer ^[14]
• Roma (2018) - producer ^[15]
• Birds of Passage - producer ^[16]
• My Brother (2017) - producer
• To Die In the Desert (2017) - producer
• Tempestad (2016) - producer ^[17]
• The Untamed (2016) - executive producer ^[18]
• Desierto - executive producer ^{[19] [7]}
• Heli (2013) - line producer ^[20]
• Hilda (2015) - producer
• The Tiniest Place (2011) - producer
• We Are What We Are (2010) - producer ^[21]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Nicolas Celis at IMDb