---
name: "John Battsek"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-battsek"
fi1m_id: "john-battsek"
imdb_id: "nm0061557"
tmdb_id: 222276
wikidata_id: "Q6221119"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 September 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T01:41:55.211005+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."
---

# John Battsek

## Identity

John Battsek

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-battsek
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-battsek
- **IMDb ID:** nm0061557
- **TMDB ID:** 222276
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6221119
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Battsek, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6221119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061557/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/222276

Producer. Born 1 September 1963.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 September 1963
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** Джон Батсек, ジョン・バツェック
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Battsek, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6221119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061557/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/222276

## Coming up

- *The Last First: Winter K2* (2026-10-02), Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-first-winter-k2.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Rising Phoenix*](https://film.one/film/rising-phoenix.md) (74)

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

## Biography

John Battsek is a British film producer born in September 1963. He is a founder of the production company Ventureland and has worked extensively in documentary filmmaking.

His credits include producing or executive producing *Searching for Sugar Man* (2012), *The Imposter* (2012), *Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom* (2015), *Listen to Me Marlon* (2015), *Project Nim* (2011), *How I Live Now* (2013), *The Rescue* (2021), *Beckham* (2023), *The Deepest Breath* (2023), *Rising Phoenix* (2020) and *The Last First: Winter K2* (2026).

*Sources: deadline.com, apple.com, whosdatedwho.com, nettv4u.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Rescue* (2021), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-rescue.md)
- *Rising Phoenix* (2020), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rising-phoenix.md)

## Complete filmography (80)

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

- *The Last First: Winter K2* (2026), Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-first-winter-k2.md)
- *Birthright* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Kylie* (2026), series, Producer
- *Murder in Monaco* (2025), Producer
- *Never Get Busted!* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation* (2025), Producer
- *A Simple Soldier* (2025), Producer
- *Just Sing* (2025), Producer
- *Elton John: Never Too Late* (2024), Executive Producer
- *99* (2024), series, Producer
- *Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Beckham* (2023), series, Producer
- *Bobi Wine: The People's President* (2023), Producer
- *WHAM!* (2023), Producer
- *Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker* (2023), series, Producer
- *The Deepest Breath* (2023), Producer
- *FIFA Uncovered* (2022), series, Producer
- *The Sound of 007* (2022), Producer
- *If These Walls Could Sing* (2022), Producer
- *The Real Charlie Chaplin* (2021), Producer
- *The Rescue* (2021), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-rescue.md)
- *Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story* (2021), Producer
- *Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In* (2021), Producer
- *Final Account* (2021), Producer
- *Football's Darkest Secret* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *American Rapstar* (2020), Executive Producer
- *A Cops and Robbers Story* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius* (2020), series, Producer
- *'Til Kingdom Come* (2020), Producer
- *Rising Phoenix* (2020), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/rising-phoenix.md)
- *Belushi* (2020), Producer
- *Citizen K* (2019), Producer
- *The Australian Dream* (2019), Producer
- *Mike Wallace Is Here* (2019), Producer
- *Sid & Judy* (2019), Producer
- *Mystify: Michael Hutchence* (2019), Producer
- *Circus of Books* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Spiral* (2018), Producer
- *Studio 54* (2018), Producer
- *Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars* (2018), Producer
- *Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Final Year* (2018), Producer
- *Legion of Brothers* (2017), Producer
- *The Last Shaman* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Five Came Back* (2017), series, Producer
- *Five Came Back* (2017), Producer
- *The Third Man* (2016), Producer
- *The Fall* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Don't Look Down* (2016), Producer
- *Hillsborough* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Chuck Norris vs Communism* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Listen to Me Marlon* (2015), Producer
- *Match 64: The Maracanã* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Pray for Ukraine* (2015), Executive Producer
- *The Viking of Sixth Avenue* (2015), Producer
- *Happy Valley* (2014), Producer
- *I Am Ali* (2014), Executive Producer
- *The Summit* (2013), Executive Producer
- *9.79** (2013), Executive Producer
- *How I Live Now* (2013), Producer
- *Everything or Nothing* (2012), Producer
- *The Imposter* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Searching for Sugar Man* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Koran by Heart* (2011), Producer
- *Match 64: The Final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup* (2011), Producer
- *Project Nim* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Better This World* (2011), Executive Producer
- *The Tillman Story* (2010), Producer
- *The Age of Stupid* (2009), Executive Producer
- *We Live in Public* (2009), Executive Producer
- *The Day After Peace* (2009), Producer
- *Sergio* (2009), Producer
- *Black Power Salute* (2008), Executive Producer
- *After the Rain* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Lila Says* (2005), Co-Producer
- *Live Forever* (2003), Producer
- *One Day in September* (1999), Producer
- *The Serpent's Kiss* (1997), Producer
- *The Long Day Closes* (1992), Publicist

## Gallery

- ![John Battsek](https://film.one/media/person/95543/gallery-954676476755.jpg) John Battsek — Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/John_Battsek_2015.jpg/1280px-John_Battsek_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![BAFTA's 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/95543/gallery-0180e36c3c28.jpg) BAFTA's 2013. — Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/BAFTA%27s_2013_%288463753111%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![BAFTA's 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/95543/gallery-26c3ca099fd4.jpg) BAFTA's 2013. — Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/BAFTA%27s_2013_%288464850232%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2024: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Bobi Wine: The People's President*

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

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