Ben Winston

Ben Winston is a British producer and director, who established the production company Fulwell 73[1] with Gabe Turner, Ben Turner and Leo Pearlman.[2] He is well known as co-executive producer of The Late Late Show with James Corden alongside Rob Crabbe and Mike Gibbons and the show's segments "Carpool Karaoke" and "Drop the Mic". Winston is the youngest show producer of a Late Night show in America. The American talk show broadcast on CBS was launched in 2015. He has collaborated with a number of artists, most notably One Direction, JLS, Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow and James Cordon. He has produced and directed a number of pop culture oriented films, documentaries, concerts and music videos. He is also renowned for producing a number of the annual Brit Awards from 2011 to 2014. More recently he was a co-producer of US Grammy Awards and Tony Awards.

Career

Winston started at Fulwell 73 by co-producing in the Hands of the Gods (Lionsgate) in 2007. Since he has produced and directed shows including The Michael McIntyre Chat Show (BBC1) "Robbie Williams: One Night at The Palladium" (BBC1), "This is Justin Bieber" (ITV1), "One Direction: A Year In The Making," and the record breaking 8-hour marathon show "1D Day." He also notably produced and directed Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service. This film was the most watched single documentary of that year, while the song that came from it, "Sing" by Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band featuring Military Wives charted at number 1 for three weeks.[3]

In 2014 he was Executive Producer of The X Factor in the UK, the most successful entertainment show on British TV winning best programme at the National Television Awards. His work with his James Corden has been extensive, James Corden's World Cup Live (ITV1), When Corden Met Barlow (BBC1), When Robbie Met James (Sky One). He has also produced James Cordon as the host of the BRIT Awards for four years (2011-2014). For Red Nose Day on BBC1, he directed and co-wrote many memorable Smithy sketches. Ben co-directed the 3D documentary movie, JLS: Eyes Wide Open which opened on over 400 screens across the UK. At the time it was the biggest grossing music cinema release of all time in the UK, but was beaten by the next film he produced, the One Direction hit movie One Direction: This Is Us for Columbia Pictures, which broke records around the globe.[4]

As a commercial director, his advert for "A League Of There [sic] Own" won the gold award at Berlin Pro Max Awards in 2011. He also directed the 2011 Christmas Campaign for BBC One, "Consider Yourself One of Us" and the award-winning campaign for the Sport Relief mile. He has directed many music videos which led to him winning an MTV VMA for his One Direction video "Best Song Ever". He is the first ever director to win two Brit Awards in consecutive years for Best Video of the Year, which he won in 2014 and 2015.[5]

In 2014, he directed When Corden Met Barlow which aired on BBC One. The show included a 6-minute 45 second Carpool Karaoke segment in the documentary with singer Gary Barlow of the band Take That.[6] James Cordon explained that "Ben Winston and I always thought there was something very joyful about someone very, very famous singing their songs in an ordinary situation. We just had this idea: Los Angeles, traffic, the carpool lane — maybe this is something we could pull off." Later on Carpool Karaoke was included as a regular featured segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden and other specials.

Awards

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Nominated

Filmography

Director
Producer

Personal life

Ben Winston is the son of Robert Winston and Lira Helen Feigenbaum. He is of Jewish origin. He is married to Meredith Winston and they have a daughter Ruby Winston.

References

  1. ↑ Fulwell73 Official website
  2. ↑ Hollywood Reporter: The Late Late Show' Producer Ben Winston Inks Deal at CBS TV Studios
  3. ↑ The Official Charts: "Sing" page
  4. ↑ The Independent: One Direction film This Is Us tops UK and US Weekend box office
  5. ↑ The Guardian: One Direction win Best Video at the 2015 BRIT Awards
  6. ↑ "BBC One - When Corden Met Barlow". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
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