Guy Hibbert is a British screenwriter and playwright.
He has won four
BAFTA TV awards, including Best Writer for the 2009 film ''
Five Minutes of Heaven''. This film was premiered at the
25th Sundance Film Festival
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival was held during January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah. It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.
Award winners
*Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''We Live in Public''
*Grand Jury Prize: ...
, where Hibbert won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award.
''Five Minutes of Heaven'' also won the
Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, given for work promoting peace and reconciliation in Ireland.
His script for ''
Eye In The Sky'' won Best Screenplay at
Evening Standard British Film Awards
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2017.
Hibbert started his writing career as a playwright. His play On The Edge was the winner of the
John Whiting Award in 1985.
Other awards include the Mental Health Media Award in 1998 and in 2004 and the Joan Coleman Award in 2013 for his contribution to the understanding of mental health.
Hibbert lives in London with his wife, poet and translator Meifu Wang. He has one daughter, Celeste.
Filmography
* ''Master of the Marionettes'' (1989) writer
* ''Aimee'' (1991) – writer
* ''Bad Girl'' (1992) – writer
* ''Nice Town'' (1992) – writer
* ''Saigon Baby'' (1995) – writer
* ''
Prime Suspect
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'' - "Scent of Darkness" (1997) – writer
* ''No Child Of Mine'' (1997) – writer
* ''
Shot Through the Heart'' (1998) – writer
* ''The Russian Bride'' (2001) - writer and executive producer
* ''
May 33rd'' (2004) – writer and executive producer
* ''
Omagh'' (2004) – co-writer with
Paul Greengrass
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His early film ' ...
* ''
Who Gets the Dog?'' (2007) – writer
* ''
Five Minutes of Heaven'' (2009) – writer
* ''Blood and Oil'' (2010) – writer
* ''
Complicit
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'' (2013) – writer and executive producer
* ''
One Child
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'' (2014) - writer and executive producer
* ''
Eye in the Sky'' (2015) – writer and executive producer
* ''
A United Kingdom
''A United Kingdom'' is a 2016 biographical romantic drama film directed by Amma Asante and written by Guy Hibbert, based on the true-life romance of Seretse Khama, heir to the throne of the Bangwato Tribe in Serowe – one of many tribes f ...
'' (2016) - writer and executive producer
References
External links
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1950 births
Living people
British male screenwriters
Sundance Film Festival award winners
Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize recipients
writers from Oxford