---
name: "James Higginson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-higginson"
fi1m_id: "james-higginson"
imdb_id: "nm2664949"
tmdb_id: 1727671
wikidata_id: "Q86426088"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-22T03:30:01.084264+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# James Higginson

## Identity

James Higginson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-higginson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-higginson
- **IMDb ID:** nm2664949
- **TMDB ID:** 1727671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q86426088
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86426088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2664949/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1727671

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 68 (1), 2020s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86426088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2664949/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1727671

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Early Man*](https://film.one/film/early-man.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

James Higginson is a British screenwriter and development executive at Aardman Animations. He co-wrote the screenplay for the stop-motion feature *Early Man* (2018), directed by Nick Park, alongside Mark Burton.

Higginson has held development roles at Aardman on several productions, including *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015) and *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023). He served as co-executive producer on *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024) and as script editor on the television series *The Epic Adventures of Morph* (2020–2021).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, m.the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *Early Man* (2018), Fi1m 68, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/early-man.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), Fi1m 81, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md)
- *Early Man* (2018), Screenplay — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/early-man.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2018: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film (nominated), for *Early Man*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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