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. Upon leaving three years later, his first directing jobs were ''Edith's Finger'', which won the

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'', in 2000, with his three episodes receiving an average of 9 million viewers. He went on to direct the ITV crime drama '' Blood Strangers''. The series was nominated for a

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television award in 2002. He went on to direct '' The Debt'', a two-part British television crime drama film starring

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; '' When I'm Sixty Four'', which won the

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in 2005 for Best Television Film, and ''

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''. ''The Alan Clark Diaries'' led to work on ''A Very Social Secretary'', which was the launch film of the new UK channel

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. It won the Broadcast Press Award that year. During 2005 Jones also directed ''

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'', a Soviet thriller starring

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'' in 2007. His next direction job was ''

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'' in 2010, followed by ''

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for best visual effects in 2013. That year, Jones directed ''

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's "Drama Matters", starring

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. After directing ITV's '' The Great Fire'', in 2014, he went on to direct ''

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''. ''Last Summer'' was released in 2019 and was his first independently written and directed project, a coming-of-age drama set in 1970s rural Wales, praised by critics at film festivals including the

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of a film that has been written, produced, developed and premiered during the most radically political era of modern filmmaking. ''Last Summer'' makes Wales look bad. It makes Welsh cinema look bad". On 13 October 2019 ''Last Summer'' won Best Feature Film at the

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.

Filmography

* ''Greek Lover'' (1999) - writer and director * ''Edith's Finger'' (2000) - director * ''

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'' (2000) - director * '' Blood Strangers'' (2002) - director * '' The Debt'' (2003) - director * ''

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'' (2004) - director * ''

The Alan Clark Diaries ''The Alan Clark Diaries'' is a 2004 BBC television serial dramatising the diaries of the controversial British Conservative politician Alan Clark. The six-episode series debuted on BBC Four on 15 January 2004, and was later repeated on BBC Two. ...

'' (2004) - writer and director * ''

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'' (2005) - director * ''A Very Social Secretary'' (2005) - director * ''The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton'' (2006) - director * ''

Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' ( ) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic fiction, Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. Although the title page is dated 1818 and the novel was published posthumously in 1817 with ''Persuasio ...

'' (2007) - director * ''

The Diary of Anne Frank ''The Diary of a Young Girl'', commonly referred to as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of t ...

'' (2009) - director * ''

Going Postal ''Going Postal'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 33rd book in his '' Discworld'' series, released in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2004. Unlike most of Pratchett's Discworld novels, ''Going Postal'' is divided int ...

'' (2010) - director * ''

Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...

'' (2011) - director * ''

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'' (2012) - director * ''

Mr Selfridge ''Mr Selfridge'' is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928. It was co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece/ WGBH for broadcast on I ...

'' (2013) - director * ''

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'' (2013) - director * ''Lawless'' (2013) - director * ''

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'' (2014) - director * '' The Great Fire'' (2014) - director * ''

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'' (2015) - director * ''

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'' (2015) - director * '' Heroes Reborn'' (2016) - director * ''

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'' (2017) - director * ''

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'' (2017) - director * ''Last Summer'' (2018) - writer, producer, director * '' Hanna'' (2019) - director

Awards

*

BAFTA Cymru BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA in Wales) is the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was founded in 1987.Director's Guild of Great Britain - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in 30-Minute Television (2004) For ''

The Alan Clark Diaries ''The Alan Clark Diaries'' is a 2004 BBC television serial dramatising the diaries of the controversial British Conservative politician Alan Clark. The six-episode series debuted on BBC Four on 15 January 2004, and was later repeated on BBC Two. ...

'' * Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Single Drama (2005) For ''A Very Social Secretary'' *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Jon British male screenwriters Welsh television directors Living people 1967 births People from Carmarthen Welsh film directors Welsh screenwriters People educated at Oundle School