Deputy Chairman

Peter Watson is Chief Executive Officer of Recorded Picture Company. Joining RPC in the 1990s, Watson began a long and fruitful partnership with Jeremy Thomas. Setting out to build a vertically integrated production and distribution business, Watson co-founded the innovative sales agency HanWay Films in 1999, and remains Deputy Chairman. Continuing RPC’s legacy as a director-led production company, he has focused the business to achieve its standing in the market as a home for quality cinema.

Films executive-produced by Watson include Takeshi Kitano’s Brother, Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, Terry Gilliam’s Tideland, Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, Franklyn by Gerald McMorrow, Jon Amiel’s Creation, starring Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany, and most recently David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method starring Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender.

Watson has managed the finances of RPC, HanWay and their library assets for more than a decade. One of the few financially viable companies in the industry, the business remains independently owned.

Watson served as a Governor of the British Film Institute from 2004 – 2011.