Andrew Macdonald (producer)

Scottish film producer

Andrew Imre Flint Macdonald^[1] (born January 1966) is a Scottish film producer, best known for his collaborations with screenwriter John Hodge and director Danny Boyle (including Shallow Grave (1994),^[2] Trainspotting (1996), The Beach (2000) and 28 Days Later (2002), ^[3] and writer-director Alex Garland.

Life and career

Together with Duncan Kenworthy, he is also the founder of DNA Films, the production company responsible for The Parole Officer (2001), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Years Later (TBA), two of which Danny Boyle directed and Alex Garland wrote. He also produced Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina.

He is the brother of Oscar-winning documentary maker Kevin Macdonald. His maternal grandparents were English actress Wendy Orme and Hungarian-born British Jewish Oscar-winning filmmaker Emeric Pressburger.

Filmography

Film

Producer

• Shallow Grave (1994)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
• The Beach (2000)
• The Parole Officer (2001)
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• Sunshine (2007)
• 28 Weeks Later (2007)
• Never Let Me Go (2010)
• Dredd (2012)
• The Sweeney (2012)
• Sunshine on Leith (2013)
• Ex Machina (2015)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
• T2 Trainspotting (2017)
• Annihilation (2018)
• Men (2022)
• Civil War (2024)
• 28 Years Later (2025)

Executive producer

• Twin Town (1997)
• Beautiful Creatures (2000) (Uncredited)
• Strictly Sinatra (2001)
• Heartlands (2002)
• The Final Curtain (2002)
• The Last King of Scotland (2006)
• The History Boys (2006)

Special thanks

• Separate Lies (2005)
• Agora (2009)

As an actor

Television

Producer

• The Making of an Englishman (1995) (Documentary)
• Hitler's Warriors (1998) (Documentary)

Executive Producer

• Devs (2020)
• Black Narcissus (2020)
• Shōgun (2024)

References

1. "Andrew Imre Flint Macdonald personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
2. The New York Times
3. The New York Times

External links

• Andrew Macdonald at IMDb
• Andrew Macdonald at the BFI's Screenonline
• Interview
• Interview with Andrew Macdonald on success, Sunshine and his sibling Kevin at Eye For Film