Person
Peter Watson
Production · Born 1966-01-01 · Holland Park, London, England
Biography
Peter Watson is CEO of Recorded Picture Company. Joining RPC in the early 1990s, Watson began a long and fruitful partnership with legendary producer Jeremy Thomas. Setting out to build a vertically integrated production and distribution business, Watson co-founded the respected sales agency HanWay Films in 1999, and remains its deputy chairman. Continuing RPC’s legacy as a director-led production company, he has focused the sales and distribution business to achieve its standing in the market as a home for quality cinema. Watson has executive produced more than a dozen films include Takeshi Kitano’s Brother, Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method.
Known for

Good Boy
Executive Producer

The Dreamers
Associate Producer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Executive Producer

Only Lovers Left Alive
Executive Producer

Made in Italy
Executive Producer

A Dangerous Method
Executive Producer

Hot Milk
Executive Producer

Tale of Tales
Executive Producer

Sexy Beast
Associate Producer

Brother
Producer
Filmography
- 2026Good BoyExecutive Producer
- 2025Hot MilkExecutive Producer
- 2024The Dead Don't HurtExecutive Producer
- 2024Race for Glory: Audi vs. LanciaExecutive Producer
- 2021SeanceExecutive Producer
- 2020Made in ItalyExecutive Producer
- 2020The Roads Not TakenExecutive Producer
- 2020The Burnt Orange HeresyExecutive Producer
- 2019The Song of NamesExecutive Producer
- 2019PinocchioExecutive Producer
- 2019The Kindness of StrangersExecutive Producer
- 2018The White CrowExecutive Producer
- 2018Swimming with MenExecutive Producer
- 2017The Killing of a Sacred DeerExecutive Producer
- 2017Blade of the ImmortalExecutive Producer
- 2017Their FinestExecutive Producer
- 2015High-RiseExecutive Producer
- 2015A Royal Night OutExecutive Producer
- 2015Tale of TalesExecutive Producer
- 2014The Riot ClubExecutive Producer
- 2013Only Lovers Left AliveExecutive Producer
- 2013Dom HemingwayExecutive Producer
- 2011A Dangerous MethodExecutive Producer
- 2010Essential KillingExecutive Producer
- 2009CreationExecutive Producer
- 2008FranklynExecutive Producer
- 2008Mister LonelyExecutive Producer
- 2006Fast Food NationExecutive Producer
- 2005TidelandExecutive Producer
- 2004Promised LandCo-Producer
- 2003The DreamersAssociate Producer
- 2003To Kill a KingExecutive Producer
- 2001Sexy BeastAssociate Producer
- 2000BrotherProducer
- —Bad Lieutenant: TokyoExecutive Producer
- —The CreepExecutive Producer
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