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BAFTA Award For Best Newcomer
The BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer is a film award presented annually at the British Academy Film Awards in London. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). The Outstanding Debut award recognises the work of writers, directors and producers whose first films have been released in cinemas during the award's qualification window. It is presented in honour of screenwriter and producer Carl Foreman.http://static.bafta.org/files/rule-book-bafta-film-awards-1112-1017.pdf BAFTA Film Awards Guidelines * From 1998 to 2000, this category was known as the Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer in British Film (and was presented to a writer, director or producer). * From 2001 to 2008, this category was known as the Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Film Awards
The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs or BAFTA Awards, is an annual film award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The ceremony was first held at the flagship Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square in London, then the Royal Opera House from 2007 to 2016. The event was held at the Royal Albert Hall from 2017 to 2022, before moving to the Royal Festival Hall for 2023. The statue awarded to recipients depicts a theatrical mask. The first BAFTA Awards ceremony was held in 1949, and the ceremony was first broadcast on the BBC in 1956 with Vivien Leigh as the host. The ceremony was initially held in April or May; since 2001, it typically takes place in February. History The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Jenkin
Mark Jenkin (born 1976) is a Cornish director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer. He wrote and directed the film '' Bait'' (2019), which earned him a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Career Jenkin is a descendant of Alfred Wallis, a Cornish artist and fisherman. Jenkin won the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2002 for his debut film '' Golden Burn''. He followed this success with documentaries, shorts and low-budget feature films including '' The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light'', '' The Rabbit'' and '' The Lobsterman'', a documentary on the life of Cornish playwright Nick Darke. His 2007 feature film '' The Midnight Drives'' was described by Derek Malcolm, film critic for ''The Evening Standard'' as "A moving film about parentage with an exceptional performance from Colin Holt at its centre". Jenkin wrote and directed the 2019 drama film '' Bait'', starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Canning
Iain Alexander Canning (born July 1979) is an English film and television producer best known for producing the film ''The King's Speech'' (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA award for Best Film and Best British Film, and for executive producing television series '' Top of the Lake,'' which was nominated for an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe award. He has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards and won 1, nominated for 5 BAFTAs and won 3, and nominated for 2 Emmy Awards and won 1. 9 Iain co-founded See-Saw Films with producing partner Emile Sherman in 2008. Their offices are based in London, UK and Sydney, Australia. Career Iain Canning co-founded See-Saw Films with Emile Sherman in 2008 and has produced several major films including ''Lion'', winner of two BAFTA Awards, starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, and '' The Power of the Dog,'' starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons. Canning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Buffini
Moira Buffini (born 29 May 1965) is an English dramatist, director, and actor. Early life Buffini was born in Cheshire to Irish parents, and attended St Mary's College at Rhos-on-Sea in Wales as a day girl. She studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College, London University (1983–86). She subsequently trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. Career For ''Jordan'', co-written with Anna Reynolds (writer), Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe play. Her 1997 play ''Gabriel'' was performed at Soho theatre, winning the London Weekend Television, LWT Plays on Stage award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. Her 1999 play ''Silence (1999 play), Silence'' earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. ''Loveplay'' followed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC in 2001, then ''Dinner'' at the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre in 2003 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Nicholas Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is a British writer and film critic. He has been chief film critic at ''The Guardian'' since 1999, and is a contributing editor at ''Esquire'' magazine. Early life and education Bradshaw was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire and studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Footlights. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984, followed by postgraduate research in the Early Modern period in which he studied with Lisa Jardine and Anne Barton. He received his PhD in 1989. Career In the 1990s, Bradshaw was employed by the ''Evening Standard'' as a columnist, and during the 1997 general election campaign, editor Max Hastings asked him to write a series of parodic diary entries purporting to be by the Conservative Party MP and historian Alan Clark, which Clark thought deceptive and which were the subject of a court case resolved in January 1998, the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Arnold
David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997-2008), as well as ''Stargate'' (1994), ''Independence Day'' (1996), ''Godzilla'' (1998), '' Shaft'' (2000), '' 2 Fast 2 Furious'' (2003), '' Four Brothers'' (2005), ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007), and the television series '' Little Britain'' and '' Sherlock''. For ''Independence Day'', he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television, and for ''Sherlock'', he and co-composer Michael Price won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of " His Last Vow", the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series ''Good Omens'' (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book '' Good Omens'', written with Terry Pratchett. Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Career While attending a Sixth Form College in Luton, Arnold became friends with director Dann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Ackie
Naomi Sarah Ackie (born 2 November 1992) is an English actress. She is known for her television roles in '' The End of the F***ing World'' (2019), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, and ''Master of None'' (2021) and her film roles in '' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'' (2019), '' I Wanna Dance with Somebody'' (2022), '' Blink Twice'' (2024), and '' Mickey 17'' (2025). Early life Naomi Ackie was born on 2 November 1992 in Walthamstow, London, the daughter of second-generation immigrants from Grenada. Her father was a Transport for London employee and her mother worked for the National Health Service. She has an older brother and sister. She went to Walthamstow School for Girls. Her first role was at the age of 11, playing the angel Gabriel in a school nativity play. She studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated in 2012. Career Ackie's breakthrough film role was in ''Lady Macbeth'' (2016), for which she won the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clio Barnard
Clio Barnard (born 1 January 1965) is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, '' The Arbor'', an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film '' The Selfish Giant'', which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. Early life and education Barnard grew up in the town of Otley in Yorkshire. Her father was a university lecturer and her mother was an artist who later became a jazz singer. She graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University), with a First Class B.A. (Hons) with distinction in fine art and received a Postgraduate Diploma in Electronic Imaging at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee). In 1988, her postgrad video work ''Dirt and Science'' featured Jane and Louise Wilson and toured internationally as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Glass
Rose Glass (born 1990) is an English film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut with the 2019 psychological horror film '' Saint Maud'', which was nominated for two awards at the 74th British Academy Film Awards. In 2020, Glass was named Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards. Her second feature film '' Love Lies Bleeding'' had its premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. Early life Glass was born in London, England, and grew up in Essex. She attended New Hall School and later the London College of Communication before working as a runner on film sets alongside directing and writing her own shorts. After graduating, she made a short film called ''Storm House'', and later submitted the film in an application to the National Film and Television School. She graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2014, where she made the short film ''Room 55''. During her years at both schools, she had written and direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Birch
Alice Birch (born 1986) is a British playwright and screenwriter. Birch has written several plays, including ''Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.'' for which she was awarded the George Devine Award, George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright, and ''Anatomy of a Suicide'' for which she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Birch was also the screenwriter for the film ''Lady Macbeth (film), Lady Macbeth'' and has written for such television shows as ''Succession (TV series), Succession'', ''Normal People (TV series), Normal People'', and the Peabody Award-winning miniseries ''Dead Ringers (miniseries), Dead Ringers''. Early life Birch spent the first five years of her life living with her family at the rural commune Birchwood Hall, near Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern. Because her parents were unmarried, they decided to give Alice and her sister the surname Birch after the commune's name. At 18, Birch joined the Royal Court Theatre’s young writers programme and spent a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nira Park
Nira Louise Park (born December 1967) is a British television and film producer. Life and career Park founded award-winning UK film and television production company Big Talk in 1995. She left the company in July 2018 to launch a new production company, Complete Fiction Pictures, with Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish and Rachael Prior. Park is best known for her collaborations with Edgar Wright, having produced all of his work over the past two decades; their partnership began with the award-winning television series ''Spaced''. This also marked the beginning of their long-standing collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, which continued with the cult comedy '' Shaun of the Dead'' for which Park received a BAFTA Outstanding Debut Award nomination. The film was the first instalment of Wright's iconic ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy, all starring Pegg and Frost. Park went on to produce Wright's '' Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' and '' Baby Driver''. Park has also worked c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
