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The film premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival to great acclaim and writers Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan won the best screenplay award for the film. The film won the People's Choice Award Runner-Up prize at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was nominated for four Oscars at the 86th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress (for Dench), and Best Original Score. It was also nominated for four British Academy Film Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The same year, HBO released Frears's television drama Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, starring Christopher Plummer and Frank Langella. It explores the United States Supreme Court deliberation over banning Muhammad Ali from boxing for refusing to serve in the US Army during the Vietnam War. [ citation needed] An entertaining selection of well-directed performances keep this film going. Terence Stamp is the supergrass ex-criminal exiled in Spain who finds that old comrades have caught up with him, intent on settling scores. Played by John Hurt and a livewire young Tim Roth, they are disconcerted by Stamp’s Zen acceptance of the situation. 15. Liam (2000) In 2002, Frears directed social thriller, Dirty Pretty Things, a film about two immigrants living in London. The film starred Audrey Tautou, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It won a British Independent Film Award for Best Independent British Film in 2003. For his performance as Okwe, Chiwetel Ejiofor won the 2003 British Independent Film Award for Best Actor. [ citation needed]

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In 2003, Frears returned to directing for television with The Deal (2003), which depicts an alleged deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown over which of them should become leader of the Labour Party in 1994. Michael Sheen portrayed Tony Blair to great acclaim. In 2005, Frears directed the British theatre comedy Mrs Henderson Presents starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins. The film was praised for its performances by Dench and Hoskins with Dench receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. [ citation needed] The 100 most powerful people in British culture: 61-80". The Telegraph. 18 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.

A convinced republican, [23] in April 2015, Frears was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election, but not other Green Party candidates. [24] National Life Stories, 'Jellicoe, Ann (1 of 11) National Life Stories Collection: The Legacy of the English Stage Company', The British Library Board, 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2018 Ms Wilmers remembered Mr O’Hagan’s arriving for his interview wearing a lurid green suit in 1990. They said the London Review of Books was booming and was benefiting thanks to the “genius” of Ms Wilmers and a “renewed taste for long-form journalism and reportage”.

Sam’s dream: ‘I want it to be like an EastEnders cafe, but in Sam’s dream: ‘I want it to be like an EastEnders cafe, but in

Mr O’Hagan – who has a new book coming out in a fortnight and another about Caledonian Road in the pipeline – said the “concept at the beginning was a greasy spoon without the grease”, adding: “We wanted to open a cafe – so we started a company, it’s called Del Boy Productions. Sam is a big Only Fools and Horses fan. We can afford a bit of happy chaos.” This book is a collection of Nina's letters over a five-year period. Their publication happened gradually. Victoria found a boxful of her sister's letters several years ago when moving house. Then, in 2008, when novelist Andrew O'Hagan was collecting tributes for a book about Mary-Kay Wilmers to celebrate her 70th birthday, Bad Character, in 2008, he threw in a couple of Nina's letters. They went down a storm and an editor, hearing him read them aloud, wondered whether they might make a book. But there is more to Sam Frears than a freak condition. Mary-Kay could see it from day one. "He's got some kind of charismatic personality. I don't know why – neither of his parents do. He had long hair and seemed to be seeing some joke and smiling." In the late 1980s, Frears came to international attention as a director of feature films. In 1985, Frears found widespread acclaim with My Beautiful Laundrette. Based on Hanif Kureishi's screenplay, the film focuses on an interracial gay romance. It as released theatrically to great critical acclaim. It received an Academy Award nomination and two nominations for BAFTA Awards. The success of the film helped launch the careers of both Frears and actor Daniel Day-Lewis. [ citation needed] PRIMROSE Hill is well known for being home to the great and good but arguably its one true celebrity is Sam Frears.For visiting builders, not just the exclusive Primrose Hill people. I wanted a kind of EastEnders style cafe, although I’m not sure you can get that round here.”

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Field, Matthew (2015). Some kind of hero: 007: the remarkable story of the James Bond films. Ajay Chowdhury. Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 978-0-7509-6421-0. OCLC 930556527. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) He stops, embarrassed, head facing the table. "I don't really want to say this … having relationships with girls." Macdonald, Moira (20 October 2006). "Stephen Frears takes on a lifelong icon — and takes film world by storm". The Seattle Times . Retrieved 9 September 2022.Frears has also directed two films adapted from novels by Roddy Doyle, The Snapper (1993) and The Van (1996). Frears's other films include the horror film Mary Reilly and the Western The Hi-Lo Country (1998). [ citation needed] 2000s [ edit ]

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