Jeremy Dawson

Production

Jeremy Dawson

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jeremy Dawson is a Canadian-American film producer and visual effects artist. He was nominated for the Academy Award in the category of Best Picture for the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel at the 87th Academy Awards, as well as the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the stop-motion films Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Isle of Dogs(2018). With The Grand Budapest Hotel, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Dawson grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Grand Budapest Hotel poster
8.0

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

The Whale poster
7.8

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

The Whale

2022

Caught Stealing poster
6.8

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

Caught Stealing

2025

The Phoenician Scheme poster
6.5

Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

The Phoenician Scheme

2025

Isle of Dogs poster
7.8

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

Isle of Dogs

2018

Fantastic Mr. Fox poster
7.8

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009

Asteroid City poster
6.5

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Asteroid City

2023

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun poster
7.0

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

2021

Moonrise Kingdom poster
7.7

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Moonrise Kingdom

2012

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl poster
7.5

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

2015

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar poster
7.3

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

2023

Poison poster
6.8

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.

Poison

2023

Despair poster
6.2

After a phone call ends in despair, a young woman faces a fatal decision.

Despair

2010

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More poster
7.5

Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison."

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

2024

The Rat Catcher poster
6.6

In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.

The Rat Catcher

2023

The Swan poster
6.8

Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.

The Swan

2023

Castello Cavalcanti poster
7.0

In 1955 in Italy, race car driver Jed Cavalcanti suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.

Castello Cavalcanti

2013

La grande sortie poster
7.5

Prima ballerina takes the stage at the Ópera Bastille, consumed by her own anxiety and stage fright

La grande sortie

2015