Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood.
Spikings is best known as a producer of the film The Deer Hunter (1978), which won five Academy Awards.
After leaving Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the Lincolnshire Standard, as a trainee reporter.
Later he joined the Farmers' Weekly, where he won a Golden Ear award for a fifteen-minute film that he produced and directed himself.
[3] In 1985, Spikings formed a Canadian company, Nelson Holdings International, with British financier Richard Northcott, to purchase entertainment firms.