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Allan Segal

Allan Segal's work won, amongst other accolades, two BAFTAs (for the films "Nuts and Bolts of the Economy" and "Made in Korea"), the Royal Television Society's Judges' Award, and a New York Film Festival Blue Ribbon.

Amanda Berry

Amanda Sonia Berry (born 1961), Chief Executive of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

America: A Personal History of the United States

The series was a great success in both countries and won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA.

Betty Blue

The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster.

Blue Jam

Morris himself delivered disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film, My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117.

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.

Chloë Leland

She worked as camera operator on multi-award winning feature Concert for George and produced and directed Walking with Monsters for which she won at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) and was nominated for a BAFTA.

Colin Teague

Subsequently he was Bafta nominated twice for Being Human, and in 2011 Teague directed Shirley, a biopic on the legendary Shirley Bassey, which won a Cymru Bafta for best single drama in 2012.

Dare to be Digital

12 teams took part in Dare 2007, including BAFTA Ones to Watch Award nominees Care Box for their game 'Climbactic' (Edinburgh University), Phoenix Seed for 'Bear Go Home' (Peking University and the University of Abertay Dundee) and Voodoo Boogy for 'Ragnarawk' who ultimately won the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award.

Darrall Macqueen Ltd

Smile ran from 2002 until 2007 with more than 250 x 3 hour live broadcasts - winning Darrall Macqueen a BAFTA in the Interactive category in 2005, an Interactive Indie of the Year Award (2005) and a BAFTA in the Presenter category for Barney Harwood who was the host of Smile in 2007.

Dion Beebe

Beebe was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA for his work on Rob Marshall's Chicago, and won the 2006 Academy Award for his work on the director's later Memoirs of a Geisha.

Do Thi Hai Yen

“The Quiet American” received the Academy Award Nomination, another ten wins and seven nominations at the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes - USA, London Critics Circle Film Awards, National Board of Review - USA, Political Film Society - USA, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Satellite Awards, Bangkok International Film Festival, Australian Screen Sound Guild, World Soundtrack Awards.in 2003.

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).

Flickerpix

Collaborations with CBBC Newsround for their specials Living with Alcohol and Living with Cancer, Living with Alcohol went on to be awarded a BAFTA.

Foz Allan

2011-2012: Wolfblood (Winner: Royal Television Society, Banff 'Rockie', BAFTA) (Originating Producer)

Fred Feast

Feast acted in numerous television dramas throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, including the BAFTA winning ITV play Another Sunday and Sweet FA, written by Jack Rosenthal and Colin Welland.

Garfield Kennedy

He produced and directed the Emmy Award-winning 9/11 documentary for the BBC and PBS WGBH Boston, Why the Towers Fell and has completed a series of fiction shorts including the BAFTA Nominated Bye-Child (written and directed by Bernard MacLaverty.

Guillermo Arriaga

Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he wrote the screenplay of Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Hacker T. Dog

Phil Fletcher's performance as Hacker was highly acclaimed and he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children’s Presenter with Iain Stirling.

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.

Ilan Eshkeri

Eshkeri's other notable works include The Young Victoria, which was nominated for this year's Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Score; Warner Bros' martial arts epic Ninja Assassin, Dino DeLaurentiis' Hannibal Rising, and producing the BAFTA-nominated score to Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

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.

Jordan Cronenweth

His work on Blade Runner won the Best Cinematography Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and got a BSC Award nomination and BAFTA Film Award.

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.

Kate Fraser

During that time, she was also a presenter of Grampian Headlines (short local news bulletins), The Birthday Spot, the business interview programme The Buck Stops Here and the BAFTA-nominated Saturday morning children's programme Wize Up, alongside announcing colleagues Rachael Robertson and Scott Brown.

Linh Dan Pham

In 2005, Pham made a return to acting with her role in the BAFTA and César winning French film The Beat That My Heart Skipped, opposite Romain Duris for which she was nominated again for the most promising actress César award (and won).

Mal Young

He then moved on to become Head of Drama at the independent production company Pearson Television, where he oversaw work on ITV police drama The Bill and another soap opera, Channel 5's Family Affairs, which he created, and was Executive Producer on C5's legal drama series, the BAFTA nominated Wing And A Prayer.

Matt Greenhalgh

He adapted Deborah Curtis's Touching From a Distance—a biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis—into the 2007 film Control, for which he was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Bafta at the 61st British Academy Film Awards (which he won).

Matteis

Maria De Matteis, costume designer, won BAFTA Film Award in 1971 for Best Costume Design for her work in Waterloo (1970) and nominated for an Academy Award in 1957 for Best Costume Design, Color for her work in War and Peace (1956).

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.

Michael Pärt

He has contributed to award-winning projects such as the BAFTA-winning LazyTown and the Grammy-nominated albums Volta by Björk and Neon Bible by Arcade Fire.

Mr Endowed

The video is produced by BAFTA nominated film producer, Luti Fagbenle of Luti Media.

Nadirim

Following the lead from games and movies with similar settings and drawing inspiration from Arabic musical traditions and local, authentic instruments, BAFTA-winning composer Tamás Kreiner (Best Original Game Music, Imperium Galactica II., 2000) and Ervin Nagy at Newtex Productions created an all-original score which captures the mood and mysticism of the land and immediately draw the listener into the experience.

Patricia Llewellyn

Her recent credits include Heston's Feast for chef Heston Blumenthal (winner of Royal Television Society Award for Best Features Programme in 2008), and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (winner of BAFTA for Best Features programme in both 2004 and 2007, an International Emmy for Best Non Scripted Entertainment Programme in 2006 and the Grierson Award for Most Entertaining Documentary also in 2006) plus long running food magazine series The F Word for chef, Gordon Ramsay.

Paul Wroblewski

At the 2011 BAFTA awards, he gained his 3rd BAFTA for The Only Way Is Essex winner in the category 'YouTube Audience Award'.

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.

Philip John

His television drama includes Murphy's Law, C4 feature length comedy Wedding Belles written by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh and primetime series like Being Human, for which he won a BAFTA nomination as Best Director, Ashes To Ashe and Downton Abbey.

Philip Saville

Other significant programmes on which Saville worked include Out of the Unknown (1965) and the Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) for which Saville received a BAFTA to add to his earlier BAFTA for Hamlet at Elsinore (1964).

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.

Roger Murray-Leach

For the serial Planet of Evil, Murray-Leach designed an alien jungle at Ealing studios that so impressed Hinchcliffe that he wrote to the Head of the BBC design department, suggesting that Murray-Leach should be nominated for a BAFTA or a Royal Television Society Award.

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.

Sharat Sardana

Sardana was the writer of the BAFTA-nominated short film, Inferno (2001), starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.

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 Tales of Beatrix Potter

The film's designer, Christine Edzard, was nominated for BAFTA awards for Best Art Direction and for Best Costume Design.

The Waltz of the Toreadors

Wolf Mankowitz was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Screenplay and Sellers was named Best Actor at the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival.

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.

Your Funeral... My Trial

"The Carny" also inspired the 2004 animated short film Jo Jo in the Stars, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Short Film.


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