John Smithson
Production · Producer · Executive Producer · Director
Active 1992–present
John Smithson is an Oscar Best Picture nominee and BAFTA, Emmy, Peabody, and Grierson award-winning producer and executive in non-scripted film and television based in London, England.
Filmography
Cecil (2026) — ProducerRiver (2021) — ProducerPositive (2021) — Creative DirectorA Year Of British Murder (2019) — Executive ProducerMan Made Planet: Earth from Space (2017) — Creative DirectorJungle Shark (2016) — DirectorSherpa (2015) — ProducerBletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius (2015) — DirectorMayday: The Passenger Who Landed a Plane (2014) — Executive ProducerStephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012) — Executive Producer127 Hours (2010) — ProducerInto the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) — Executive ProducerU Be Dead (2009) — Executive ProducerThe Beckoning Silence (2007) — Executive ProducerDeep Water (2006) — Producer9/11: The Falling Man (2006) — Executive ProducerI Shouldn't Be Alive (2005) — Executive ProducerThe Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart (2005) — Executive ProducerTouching the Void (2003) — ProducerThe Affair (1995) — ProducerChildren of God (1994) — DirectorDead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) — Producer