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Oscar-Winning Producer Jeremy Thomas Dies at Home, Aged 77

His collaborations with Takashi Miike include Blade of the Immortal and Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, premiering Monday in Toronto.

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Film producer Jeremy Thomas died peacefully last Friday at his Oxfordshire home, surrounded by family and loved ones. He was 77 and won the Best Picture Oscar for producing The Last Emperor.

Film producer Jeremy Thomas died peacefully last Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, with family and loved ones around him. He was 77.

Thomas produced Takashi Miike’s live-action adaptation of Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal manga. He also worked with Miike on Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, which premieres Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A prolific producer, Thomas was perhaps most widely known for the 1987 film The Last Emperor, which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture.

His other producing credits included:

  • A Dangerous Method
  • Crash
  • Mad Dog Morgan
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  • Sexy Beast
  • The Shout

Sources: Variety via ANN

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