Celine Rattray

Celine Rattray (born 1975) is a film producer who co-founded the production company Maven Pictures. In 2010, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Kids Are All Right. In 2020, Rattray launched Maven Screen Media with Trudie Styler, a multi-platform UK production company.

Celine Rattray at the Berlin Film Festival 2019

Career

Rattray earned a degree in mathematics and philosophy from St Hilda's College, Oxford prior to entering the entertainment industry.[1][2]

In 2003, Rattray co-founded New York-based production company Plum Pictures with Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin Lundberg.[1] The company produced several films before its 2009 disestablishment, including Grace Is Gone (2007), which won an Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

She was president of Mandalay Vision, the independent film division of Mandalay Entertainment, until 2011.[3] In that role she produced several films, including The Kids Are All Right (2010), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture BAFTA, Gold Derby Award for Best Motion Picture, and Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture.[3][4] In the same year, she was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture for The Whistleblower.

She left Mandalay Vision in 2011 to found Maven Pictures with Trudie Styler.[3] In that role she was nominated for a Women's Image Network Award in 2017 for Novitiate, which was also shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.

Filmography

References
  1. "Celine Rattray, James Heckler". New York Times. November 19, 2006.
  2. "Congratulations to our alumna Celine Rattray on the fifth anniversary of Maven Pictures". St Hilda's College, Oxford. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  3. Fleming, Jr., Mike (May 12, 2011). "Mandalay Vision Prexy Celine Rattray Forms Maven Pictures With Trudie Styler". Deadline.
  4. Smith, Nigel M. (May 12, 2011). "Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray Launch New Production Company, Maven Pictures". IndieWire.
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