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unusual facts about BAFTA Award



Clermont Set

The Mayfair Set, a 1999 BAFTA Award-winning documentary series by Adam Curtis describing how buccaneer capitalists were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focussing on members of the Clermont Club.

Jacqueline Wilson

Starring former EastEnders star Michelle Collins as Marigold Westward, who won a BAFTA Award for her role, and now plays Stella in Coronation street, Alice Connor as Dolphin Westward and Holly Grainger as Star Westward.

Mark Coulier

He and J. Roy Helland won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair for The Iron Lady (2011).

Paul Massie

Massie won a BAFTA Award in 1959 for Most Promising Newcomer for his role in the Anthony Asquith film Orders to Kill (1958) in which he portrayed an American bomber pilot in Nazi-occupied France.

Penelope Milford

She next played a fictional actress named Lorna Sinclair in Ken Russell's BAFTA nominated 1977 film Valentino, about the life of actor Rudolph Valentino.

R. C. Sherriff

His 1955 screenplays, The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up were nominated for best British screenplay BAFTA awards.

The Trials of Oz

The Trials of Oz is 1991 BAFTA Award-nominated BBC drama film about famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine Oz were charged with obscenity.


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A Touch of Larceny

The film was nominated for the BAFTA award for Best British Screenplay but it lost to The Angry Silence.

Andrea Morricone

He collaborated with his father on the famous score for Cinema Paradiso, for which they won a BAFTA Award.

Blast Theory

2005 – Interactive Arts BAFTA Award, nominated for Uncle Roy All Around You in two categories: Interactive Arts and Technical & Social Innovation

Chiara Bellati

Previously she worked on 2 series of the BAFTA award-winning BBC "Coast" and on a number of programmes for Channel 4, including producing a documentary for the controversial Witness Series entitled Moving Heaven and Earth, and producing and directing a prime-time series of the Royal Television Society award-winning series A Place in the Sun.

Dean Wright

Wright was the visual effects supervisor for Andrew Adamson's Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and VES Award for Best Visual Effects for 2005.

Elvi Hale

Hale was nominated for a BAFTA award for most promising film newcomer for her performance in Wendy Toye's True as a Turtle (1957).

Hattie Dalton

Hattie Dalton is an Australian filmmaker who won a BAFTA award for best live-action short film for her 2004 film The Banker, starring Michael Sheen.

ITV Meridian

Drama became a successful genre for the station, with Peter Kosminsky's No Child of Mine, tackling the emotionally difficult subject of child abuse, winning Meridian a BAFTA award.

Joey Deacon

The four men formed an inseparable group in the hospital for decades, and in 1974 their relationship was the subject of a Prix Italia and BAFTA award-winning drama documentary for British television's Horizon written by Elaine Morgan and directed by Brian Gibson, entitled Joey.

Jon Sen

In 2003, BAFTA award-winning producer Catherine Wearing employed Sen to direct Channel 4's £2 million flagship drama Second Generation starring Parminder Nagra.

Julie Westwood

Other TV shows she has worked on include the BAFTA award winning Channel 5 series The Hoobs, in which she plays the voice of Tula, Cartoon Critters as the voice of Fleur and Fully Booked, a BBC Sunday morning TV show with Zoë Ball and later Gail Porter where she played Morag the Cow.

Melvin O'Doom

Melvin was presenting Swap Shop with Basil Brush in 2008 on Saturday mornings, alongside his days of playing various characters for the long running and BAFTA award winning Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow.

Nicholas Hooper

Hooper won a BAFTA Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act.

Poppy Cat

An animated TV series The Extraordinary Adventures of Poppy Cat based on the Poppy Cat books, comprising 52 episodes running 11 minutes, was created by Kate Boutilier and Eryk Casemiro and produced by Coolabi Productions, and BAFTA award-winning King Rollo Films and first aired on Nick Jr. from May 2011, and on Disney Junior.

Rory McCann

He was next seen in the 2002 television comedy-drama The Book Group playing a disabled personal trainer, for which he won a Scottish BAFTA award for the best television performance of 2002.

Sophie Harris

Sophie also designed the costumes for several Woodfall Films, including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and This Sporting Life (1963), and for Jack Clayton (The Innocents (1961) and The Pumpkin Eater, for which she won a BAFTA Award for best costume designer.

That Lady

She lost an eye in a duel defending the honor of her king Philip II of Spain, (played by Paul Scofield who earned a BAFTA award for his portrayal of the smoldering, sexually frustrated Philip).

The Afternoon Play

The series was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2005 for Best New Director for an episode directed by the actress Sarah Lancashire.

Ulla-Britt Söderlund

The creation of 1700-styled costumes in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon earned her an Academy Award and a nomination for an English BAFTA Award.