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Iain Canning  

Academy Award-Winning English Film Producer; Best Known for "The King's Speech" & "The Power of the Dog"

Iain Canning is an English film producer best known for producing The King's Speech in 2010, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA awards for Best Film and Best British Film. In 2021, he produced the critically acclaimed The Power of the Dog.

Canning founded See-Saw Films with Australian Producer Emile Sherman in 2008. Prior to founding See-Saw, he executive-produced the award-winning films Hunger and Control. Hunger, Steve McQueen’s debut feature that recreated the final weeks of Irish Republican Bobby Sands, won the Camera d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award. Control, the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, also earned a Special Mention Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won a BAFTA Carl Foreman Award the same year.

Canning is on the 2022 Oscar Nominee list for Best Picture.

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