Head of FilmPaul Webster has been in the film business for over thirty years. Starting quite literally at the bottom, he began his career in a basement office beneath the Gate Cinema in London, working as a despatch clerk. He then spent ten years in exhibition and distribution before moving into production in the mid-80s. His first feature, Dream Demon for Palace Pictures, was followed by a five-year association with Working Title Films where he produced five features and set up and ran their Los Angeles office. He then went independent, producing four films in America including the critically acclaimed Little Odessa, The Pallbearer and The Yards. Between 1995-7 Paul was Head of Production for Miramax Films, where he supervised many films, beginning with the 1996 Best Picture Oscar winner The English Patient and concluding with Oscar winners Good Will Hunting and Shakespeare in Love. In 1998 he joined Channel 4 television and created FilmFour, which was involved in the production of over 50 films and numerous shorts in its five years of existence, garnering over 100 international awards and six Oscar nominations. Highlights included The Motorcycle Diaries, East is East, Sexy Beast and Touching the Void.

Paul has produced or executive-produced many films over the years, many of which have been highly regarded. But his projects have also amassed more than 100 awards, including three winners of the BAFTA for Best British Film and eight Oscar-nominated pictures. In 2004 he produced the hit film Pride & Prejudice for Working Title Films, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen. He then produced Atonement in 2007, which went on to massive global and critical success, earning seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture (winning for Best Score), and scooping both the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Picture. In 2004 Paul joined forces with Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone to create Kudos Pictures, the film arm of Kudos Film and TV. The plan has been to exploit the synergies between film and TV and to take advantage of the impressive flow of writing, directing and acting talent passing through Kudos’ doors. The union has proved to be a fertile one, with three films produced so far and many more in the pipeline. First out the gate was the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated Eastern Promises, directed by David Cronenberg, followed by Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day (which Paul executive-produced) and The Crimson Wing, out in late-2008, through Walt Disney Pictures.