As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award.
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The series was a great success in both countries and won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA.
He produced a variety of series and one-offs for the Corporation during the 1990s, of which the best known are 1996's Our Friends in the North (winner of the 1997 Best Drama Serial accolades from both the British Academy Television Awards and the Royal Television Society) and the 1997 Jimmy McGovern serial The Lakes.
As a member of the cast Outlanders Donoghue has won a total of four British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Series.
Birtwistle has won awards for several of her productions, including Hotel du Lac, Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and was one of the nominees for the 2008 BAFTA Awards for her production of Cranford.