Films Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring
Scarlett Johansson and
Colin Firth, marked Webber's feature film debut. The film has received numerous accolades, including three
Academy Award nominations, two
Golden Globe nominations, and 10
BAFTA Award nominations.
Dino De Laurentiis tapped Webber to direct
Hannibal Rising. Based on
Thomas Harris' book of the same name, and starring
Gaspard Ulliel,
Gong Li and
Rhys Ifans, this
prequel depicts a young
Hannibal Lecter as he gradually becomes a
serial killer. Webber made his first short film,
The Zebra Man, about sideshow performer
Horace Ridler starring
Minnie Driver. Then, in 2012, Webber returned to the big screen with the
World War II drama
Emperor, starring
Tommy Lee Jones.
Television He directed
Simon Russell Beale as
Franz Schubert in
The Temptation of Franz Schubert and explored the counter-culture of tunnel-dwelling road protesters in
Underground. His 2001
Channel 4 miniseries
Men Only stirred controversy for its frank and shocking portrayal of the dark side of male sexuality. It is notable for giving early leads to
Stephen Moyer of
True Blood and
Martin Freeman of
The Hobbit. In 2016, he directed the ITV miniseries
Tutankhamun, starring
Sam Neill.
Documentary An award-winning documentary director, Webber directed several programmes for
Channel 4 about classical music including child prodigies, maestros and composers such as
Richard Wagner. He also directed several popular science documentaries about a range of subjects including crash test dummies, deep sea life and phantom limbs. In 2009, he travelled into the remote
Colombian
Amazon to film with the
Macuna Tribe for a documentary called
The Sand and the Rain.
Producer Webber moved to
Qatar in 2008 where he took up the post of Creative Director at
Qatar National Day for two years. During this time he developed their film programme. While in Qatar he also executive produced several documentary films including Sarajevo Film Festival winner
For the Love of Books, which was also the recipient of a Grierson Award in 2012 for Best Historical Documentary. ==Filmography==