Neil Jordan

Irish filmmaker and writer (born 1950)

Neil Jordan

Jordan at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

Born|

Neil Patrick Jordan

(1950-02-25) 25 February 1950 (age 75)

Sligo, Ireland

Education| University College Dublin (B.A., 1972)
Occupations|

* Filmmaker
* writer

Years active| 1979–present
Spouse(s)| Vivienne Shields (divorced)

Brenda Rawn

(m. 2004)​

Children| 5

Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and writer. He first achieved recognition for his short story collection, Night in Tunisia, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.[1][2] After a stint working at RTÉ, he made his directorial debut with the 1982 film Angel.

Jordan's best-known films include the crime thrillers Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992), the horror dramas Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Byzantium (2012), the biopic Michael Collins (1996), the black comedy The Butcher Boy (1997), the Graham Greene adaptation The End of the Affair (1999), the transgender-themed dramedy Breakfast on Pluto (2005), and the psychological thriller Greta (2018). Jordan also created the Showtime Network television series The Borgias (2011–2013) and Sky Atlantic's Riviera (2017–2020).

He is the recipient of numerous accolades for his film work, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, three IFTA Film & Drama Awards, a Golden Lion and a Silver Bear. In 1996, he was honoured with receiving the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[3]

## Early life and education

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Jordan was born in Sligo, the son of Angela (née O'Brien), a painter, and Michael Jordan, a professor.[4] He was educated at St. Paul's College, Raheny. Later, Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature. He graduated in 1972 with a BA in History. He became involved in student theatre there, where he met Jim Sheridan, who was also later to become an important Irish film director. After graduation, in 1976 Jordan produced his first collection of short stories: Night in Tunisia and other Stories.[5]

Of his religious background, Jordan said in a 1999 Salon interview: "I was brought up a Catholic and was quite religious at one stage in my life, when I was young. But it left me with no scars whatever; it just sort of vanished." He said about his current beliefs that "God is the greatest imaginary being of all time. Along with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the invention of God is probably the greatest creation of human thought."[6]

## Career

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Jordan's career began in the late 1970s working for the Irish television channel RTÉ. His work included writing storylines for the children's fantasy series Wanderly Wagon.[7] His first collection of short stories, Night in Tunisia, was published by Dublin's Irish Writers Co-operative in 1976. It won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.[8]

In 1981, when John Boorman was filming Excalibur in Ireland, he recruited Jordan as a "creative associate". A year later, Boorman was executive producer on Jordan's first feature Angel, a tale of a musician caught up in the Troubles played by Stephen Rea who has subsequently appeared in almost all of Jordan's films to date. During the 1980s, he directed films that won him acclaim, including The Company of Wolves and Mona Lisa, both made in England. The Company of Wolves, a dark and sexually-themed reimagining of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale based on short stories by Angela Carter, became a cult favourite.

As a writer/director, Jordan has a highly idiosyncratic body of work, ranging from mainstream hits like Interview with the Vampire to commercial failures like We're No Angels to a variety of more personal, low-budget arthouse pictures. He was also the driving force behind the cable TV series The Borgias.

Neil Jordan at the German premiere of The Brave One, 2007

Unconventional sexual relationships are a recurring theme in Jordan's work, and he often finds a sympathetic side to characters that audiences would traditionally consider deviant or downright horrifying. His film The Miracle, for instance, follows two characters who struggle to resist a strong, incestuous attraction. Interview with the Vampire, like the Anne Rice book it was based on, focused on the intense, intimate interpersonal relationship of two undead men who murder humans nightly (although the pair never have sex, they are clearly lovers of a sort), accompanied by an equally complex vampire woman who is eternally trapped in the body of a little girl. While Lestat (Tom Cruise) is depicted in an attractive but villainous manner, his partner Louis (Brad Pitt) and the child vampire Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) are meant to capture the audience's sympathy despite their predatory nature. In the remake of The End of the Affair, two people (Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore) engage in a love affair that will end as suddenly as it started, with both not wanting its end.

In addition to the unusual sexuality of Jordan's films, he frequently returns to the Troubles of Northern Ireland. The Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto both concern a transgender character (played by Jaye Davidson and Cillian Murphy, respectively), both concern The Troubles and both feature frequent Jordan leading man Stephen Rea. The two films, however, are very different, with The Crying Game being a realistic thriller/romance, and Breakfast on Pluto is a much more episodic, stylised, darkly comic biography. Jordan also frequently tells stories about children or young people, such as The Miracle and The Butcher Boy. While his pictures are most often grounded in reality, he occasionally directs more fantastic or dreamlike films, such as The Company of Wolves, High Spirits, Interview with the Vampire and In Dreams.

Jordan with Alicja Bachleda-Curuś and Colin Farrell at the Ondine premiere, 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York

The critical success of Jordan's early pictures led him to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and We're No Angels; both were critical and financial disasters. He later returned home to make the more personal The Crying Game, which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Jordan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film.[9] Its unexpected success led him back to American studio filmmaking, where he directed Interview with the Vampire. He also directed the crime drama The Brave One starring Jodie Foster.

Neil Gaiman announced during his Today show appearance on 27 January 2009, that Neil Jordan would be directing the film of his Newbery Medal-winning book The Graveyard Book.[10] Jordan also wrote and directed the 2009 Irish-made film Ondine, starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. He also directed Byzantium, an adaptation of the vampire play of the same name starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller.[11]

In 2011, Jordan's next feature was announced as the later aborted sci-fi romance Broken Dream, which was to have featured Ben Kingsley and John Hurt.[12]

He directed the thriller Greta (2018), starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz.

After working on the scripts for Riviera, Jordan has disowned the show, due to his scripts being reworked by others. He said he had no idea who rewrote these episodes. "They were changed, to my huge surprise and considerable upset. There were various sexual scenes introduced into the story and a lot of very expository dialogue. I objected in the strongest terms possible."[13]

## Personal life

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Jordan has five children: Anna and Sarah from his marriage to solicitor Vivienne Shields; Dashiel and Daniel from his current marriage to Brenda Rawn, and Ben, from a relationship with architect Mary Donohoe. Jordan lives in Dalkey, Dublin.[14]

In 1996, Neil Jordan was honoured with receiving the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[15] He has received many honorary doctorates, including from Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast.[16][17][18]

In 2009, he signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.[19][20]

In 2018, he donated his archives to the National Library of Ireland. Jordan's donation included TV and film scripts, production files, notebooks, storyboards and personal correspondence with artists and political figures.[21]

## Works

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### Film

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Other  | Notes

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1981  | Excalibur | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Creative associate
Traveller | No  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1982  | Angel | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Directorial Debut
1984  | The Company of Wolves | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1986  | Mona Lisa | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1988  | High Spirits | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1989  | We're No Angels | Yes  | No  | No  | No  |
1991  | The Miracle | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1992  | The Crying Game | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1994  | Interview with the Vampire | Yes  | No  | No  | No  |
1996  | Michael Collins | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
1997  | The Butcher Boy | Yes  | Yes  | executive  | No  |
1999  | In Dreams | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
The End of the Affair | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2000  | Not I | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Short film
2002  | The Good Thief | Yes  | Yes  | executive  | No  |
2003  | The Actors | No  | story  | executive  | No  |
2005  | Breakfast on Pluto | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2007  | The Brave One | Yes  | No  | No  | No  |
2009  | Ondine | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2012  | Byzantium | Yes  | No  | No  | No  |
2018  | Greta | Yes  | Yes  | executive  | No  |
2022  | Marlowe | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |

Producer only

Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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1988  | The Courier | Frank Deasy
Joe Lee  | Executive producer
1999  | The Last September | Deborah Warner
2003  | Intermission | John Crowley |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Executive
Producer  | Creator  | Notes

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1979  | Miracles & Miss Langan | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | TV movie
2011–13  | The Borgias | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Directed 6 episodes
Wrote 20 episodes
2017–20  | Riviera | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Wrote 2 episodes

### Bibliography

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* Night in Tunisia (1976, short stories)
* The Past (1980, novel)
* The Dream of a Beast (1983, novella)
* Mona Lisa (1986, screenplay) co-written by David Leland
* Angel (1989, screenplay)
* A Neil Jordan Reader (1993) collects A Night in Tunisia, The Dream of a Beast, and The Crying Game (screenplay)
* Sunrise with Sea Monster (1994, novel) published in the US as ‘’Nightlines’’
* Michael Collins: Screenplay and Film Diary (1996, screenplay)
* Shade (2004, novel)
* Mistaken (2011, novel)
* The Drowned Detective (2016, novel)
* Carnivalesque (2017, novel)[22]
* The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small (2021, novel)
* The Well of Saint Nobody (2023, novel)

## Awards and nominations

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Year  | Title  | Academy Awards  | BAFTA Awards  | Golden Globe Awards

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Nominations  | Wins  | Nominations  | Wins  | Nominations  | Wins
1984  | The Company of Wolves |  |  | 4  |  |  |
1986  | Mona Lisa | 1  |  | 6  | 1  | 4  | 1
1992  | The Crying Game | 6  | 1  | 7  | 1  | 1  |
1994  | Interview with the Vampire | 2  |  | 4  | 2  | 2  |
1996  | Michael Collins | 2  |  | 2  |  | 2  |
1999  | The End of the Affair | 2  |  | 10  | 1  | 4  |
2005  | Breakfast on Pluto |  |  |  |  | 1  |
2007  | The Brave One |  |  |  |  | 1  |
Total  | 13  | 1  | 33  | 5  | 15  | 1
Year  | Title  | Awards/Nominations

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1986  | Mona Lisa | Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Direction
Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
1992  | The Crying Game | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated- Academy Award for Best Director
Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Direction
Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
1996  | Michael Collins | Golden Lion
1997  | The Butcher Boy | Silver Bear for Best Director
1999  | The End of the Affair | BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Direction
Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Director
2011  | The Borgias | Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
(for episodes "The Poisoned Chalice" and "The Assassin" )

### Literature

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* Guardian Fiction Prize for Night in Tunisia (1979)
* Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1981[23]
* 2004 Irish PEN Award
* Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for 'Shade' (2005) and Mistaken (2011)[24][25]
* 2011 Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year for 'Mistaken'[26]
* UCD Alumni Award in Arts & Humanities 2021

## See also

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* List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Ireland

## References

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1. ^ Duncan J. Petrie, "Jordan, Neil", Encyclopedia.com.
2. ^ Marianne Brace, "Neil Jordan: the writing game", The Independent, 14 January 1995.
3. ^ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
4. ^ "Neil Jordan Biography (1950–)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
5. ^ De Breffny, Brian (1983). Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 123.
6. ^ Sragow, Michael (9 December 1999). "Beautiful Dreamer". Salon. Archived from the original on 11 February 2007.
7. ^ "Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005 // Eugene Lambert Interview Pt. 2 – A Wanderly Beginning". 13 January 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
8. ^ Bromwich, Kathryn (21 April 2019). "On my radar: Neil Jordan's cultural highlights". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
9. ^ "The 65th Academy Awards | 1993". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
10. ^ Laurie Hertzel. "Gaiman's 'Graveyard' will be a movie, too." Star Tribune. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
11. ^ Kemp, Stuart (14 May 2011). "Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton to Star in Vampire Pic 'Byzantium' (Cannes)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
12. ^ Buzz Brady (15 April 2011). "Ben Kinglsey, John Hurt and Neil Jordan work on John Boorman's 'Broken Dream'". Irish Central. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
13. ^ Thorpe, Vanessa (24 June 2017). "The Neil Jordan series that isn't: film-maker disowns Riviera". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
14. ^ "Location". Irishtourist.com. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
15. ^ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
16. ^ "University College Dublin – News". Ucd.ie. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
17. ^ "Film Director Neil Jordan among recipients of Honorary Degrees at TCD". Tcd.ie. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
18. ^ "Queen's University Belfast (formerly Queen's College Belfast) Honorary Degrees 1871–2018" (PDF). Qub.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
19. ^ "Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski !" (in French). La Règle du jeu. 10 November 2009.
20. ^ "Sinead demands Jordan remove name from Polanski petition". The Irish Independent. 13 January 2010.
21. ^ "Neil Jordan donates 'vast' archive to National Library of Ireland". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
22. ^ "Carnivalesque review: Neil Jordan’s cirque du supernatural". The Irish Times.
23. ^ "Neil Jordan Gets Rooney Prize", The Irish Times, 7 October 1981
24. ^ "Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award – Literary Competitions – 39th Listowel Writers' Week 2009". Listowel Writers' Week. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
25. ^ Cían Nihill (2 June 2011). "Neil Jordan wins major literary award for second time". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
26. ^ Ronan McGreevy (18 November 2011). "Heaney honoured at book awards". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 October 2012.

## Further reading

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* Nolan, Val, Neil Jordan: Works for the Page (Cork: Cork University Press, 2022).
* Pramaggiore, Maria, Neil Jordan (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
* Rockett, Emer and Rockett, Kevin, Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2003).
* Zucker, Carole, The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival (London: Wallflower Press, 2008)
* Zucker, Carole (ed.), Neil Jordan Interviews (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2013)

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neil Jordan.

* Neil Jordan's web site
* Neil Jordan at IMDb
* Neil Jordan at the BFI's Screenonline
* Neil Jordan "Breakfast On Pluto" Interview

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Works by Neil Jordan

Films directed|

* Angel (1982)
* The Company of Wolves (1984)
* Mona Lisa (1986)
* High Spirits (1988)
* We're No Angels (1989)
* The Miracle (1991)
* The Crying Game (1992)
* Interview with the Vampire (1994)
* Michael Collins (1996)
* The Butcher Boy (1997)
* In Dreams (1999)
* The End of the Affair (1999)
* Not I (2000)
* The Good Thief (2002)
* Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
* The Brave One (2007)
* Ondine (2009)
* Byzantium (2012)
* Greta (2018)
* Marlowe (2022)

TV series created|

* The Borgias (2011–2013)
* Riviera (2017–2020)

Books|

* Night in Tunisia
* Shade
* Mistaken

Awards for Neil Jordan

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

1940–1975|

* Preston Sturges (1940)
* Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941)
* Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
* Norman Krasna (1943)
* Lamar Trotti (1944)
* Richard Schweizer (1945)
* Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946)
* Sidney Sheldon (1947)
* No award (1948)
* Robert Pirosh (1949)
* Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder (1950)
* Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
* T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
* Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch (1953)
* Budd Schulberg (1954)
* Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955)
* Albert Lamorisse (1956)
* George Wells (1957)
* Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
* Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro (1959)
* I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
* William Inge (1961)
* Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
* James Webb (1963)
* S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
* Frederic Raphael (1965)
* Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
* William Rose (1967)
* Mel Brooks (1968)
* William Goldman (1969)
* Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
* Jeremy Larner (1972)
* David S. Ward (1973)
* Robert Towne (1974)
* Frank Pierson (1975)

1976–2000|

* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* Colin Welland (1981)
* John Briley (1982)
* Horton Foote (1983)
* Robert Benton (1984)
* William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W. Wallace (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* John Patrick Shanley (1987)
* Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow (1988)
* Tom Schulman (1989)
* Bruce Joel Rubin (1990)
* Callie Khouri (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Christopher McQuarrie (1995)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
* Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997)
* Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
* Alan Ball (1999)
* Cameron Crowe (2000)

2001–present|

* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman (2004)
* Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
* Michael Arndt (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Dustin Lance Black (2008)
* Mark Boal (2009)
* David Seidler (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Quentin Tarantino (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Kenneth Branagh (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)
* Sean Baker (2024)

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* e

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1983–2000|

* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
* Bruce Robinson (1984)
* Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)
* Kurt Luedtke (1986)
* Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987)
* Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman (1988)
* Christopher Hampton (1989)
* Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle, and Ian La Frenais (1991)
* Michael Tolkin (1992)
* Steven Zaillian (1993)
* Paul Attanasio (1994)
* John Hodge (1995)
* Anthony Minghella (1996)
* Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (1997)
* Elaine May (1998)
* Neil Jordan (1999)
* Stephen Gaghan (2000)

2001–present|

* Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman, and Joe Stillman (2001)
* Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
* Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006)
* Ronald Harwood (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
* Anthony McCarten (2014)
* Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)
* Luke Davies (2016)
* James Ivory (2017)
* Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, and Kevin Willmott (2018)
* Taika Waititi (2019)
* Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)
* Sian Heder (2021)
* Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell (2022)
* Cord Jefferson (2023)
* Peter Straughan (2024)

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* e

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay
(1980–2021)|

* Bo Goldman (1980)
* Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn (1981)
* Barry Levinson (1982)
* Éric Rohmer (1983)
* Alex Cox (1984)
* Woody Allen (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Woody Allen (1989)
* Nicholas Kazan (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt (1993)
* Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Cameron Crowe / Steve Kloves (2000)
* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Dan Futterman (2005)
* William Monahan (2006)
* Brad Bird (2007)
* Dustin Lance Black (2008)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Nicole Holofcener (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo / Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Charlie Kaufman (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)

Original Screenplay
(2022–present)|

* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* David Hemingson (2023)
* Sean Baker (2024)

Adapted Screenplay
(2022–present)|

* Kogonada (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)
* RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes (2024)

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* e

Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer

Actor

* Simon Ward (1973)
* Edward Fox (1974)
* Robin Askwith (1975)
* Peter Firth (1976)
* Dennis Waterman (1977)
* Michael J. Jackson (1978)
* Simon MacCorkindale (1979)
* Jonathan Pryce (1980)

Actress

* Lynne Frederick (1973)
* Heather Wright (1974)
* Jill Townsend (1975)
* Gemma Craven (1976)
* Lesley-Anne Down (1977)
* Lea Brodie (1978)
* Karen Dotrice (1979)
* Wendy Morgan (1980)

* Franco Rosso (1981)
* Cassie McFarlane (1982)
* Neil Jordan (1983)
* Tim Roth (1984)
* Margi Clarke/Alexandra Pigg (1985)
* Gary Oldman (1986)
* Harry Hook (1987)
* Kristin Scott Thomas (1988)
* Andi Engel (1989)
* Philip Ridley (1990)
* Anthony Minghella (1991)
* Peter Chelsom (1992)
* Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor (1993)
* Ian Hart (1994)
* Danny Boyle (1995)
* Emily Watson (1996)
* Jude Law (1997)
* Guy Ritchie (1998)
* Peter Mullan (1999)
* Jamie Bell (2000)
* Ben Hopkins (2001)
* Asif Kapadia (2002)
* Max Pirkis (2003)
* Emily Blunt/Natalie Press (2004)
* Saul Dibb (2005)
* Paul Andrew Williams (2006)
* John Carney (2007)
* Joanna Hogg (2008)
* Peter Strickland (2009)
* Ben Wheatley (2010)
* Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe (2011)
* Sally El Hosaini (2012)
* Maisie Williams (2016)
* Florence Pugh (2017)
* Rungano Nyoni (2018)

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London Film Critics' Circle Award for Director of the Year

1980–2000|

* Nicolas Roeg (1980)
* Andrzej Wajda (1981)
* Costa-Gavras (1982)
* Andrzej Wajda (1983)
* Neil Jordan (1984)
* Roland Joffé (1985)
* Akira Kurosawa (1986)
* Stanley Kubrick (1987)
* John Huston (1988)
* Terence Davies (1989)
* Woody Allen (1990)
* Ridley Scott (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* James Ivory (1993)
* Steven Spielberg (1994)
* Peter Jackson (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Spike Jonze (2000)

2001–present|

* Alejandro González Iñárritu (2001)
* Phillip Noyce (2002)
* Clint Eastwood (2003)
* Martin Scorsese (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* David Fincher (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ang Lee (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* László Nemes (2016)
* Sean Baker (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Steve McQueen (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)
* RaMell Ross (2024)

* v
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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

1956–1975|

* James Poe, John Farrow and S. J. Perelman (1956)
* No Award (1957)
* Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
* Wendell Mayes (1959)
* I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
* Abby Mann (1961)
* No Award (1962)
* Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. (1963)
* Harold Pinter (1964)
* No Award (1965)
* Robert Bolt (1966)
* David Newman and Robert Benton (1967)
* Lorenzo Semple Jr. (1968)
* Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
* Éric Rohmer (1970)
* Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich / Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
* Ingmar Bergman (1974)
* François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Gruault (1975)

1976–2000|

* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Robert Benton (1984)
* Woody Allen (1985)
* Hanif Kureishi (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Craig Lucas (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Jenny Lumet (2008)
* Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche (2009)
* Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko (2010)
* Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Phyllis Nagy (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
* Paul Schrader (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Eliza Hittman (2020)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Samy Burch (2023)
* Sean Baker (2024)

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Recipients of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

* Heno Magee (1976)
* Desmond Hogan (1977)
* Peter Sheridan (1978)
* Kate Cruise O'Brien (1979)
* Bernard Farrell (1980)
* Neil Jordan (1981)
* Medbh McGuckian/Special Prize: Seán Ó Tuama & Thomas Kinsella (1982)
* Dorothy Nelson (1983)
* Ronan Sheehan (1984)
* Frank McGuinness (1985)
* Paul Mercier (1986)
* Deirdre Madden (1987)
* Glenn Patterson (1988)
* Robert McLiam Wilson (1989)
* Mary Dorcey (1990)
* Anne Enright (1991)
* Hugo Hamilton (1992)
* Gerard Fanning (1993)
* Colum McCann (1994)
* Philip MacCann (1995)
* Mike McCormack (1996)
* Anne Haverty (1997)
* David Wheatley (1998)
* Mark O'Rowe (1999)
* Claire Keegan (2000)
* Keith Ridgway (2001)
* Caitríona O'Reilly (2002)
* Eugene O'Brien (2003)
* Claire Kilroy (2004)
* Nick Laird (2005)
* Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006)
* Kevin Barry (2007)
* Leontia Flynn (2008)
* Kevin Power (2009)
* Leanne O'Sullivan (2010)
* Lucy Caldwell (2011)
* Nancy Harris (2012)
* Ciarán Collins (2013)
* Colin Barrett (2014)
* Sara Baume (2015)
* Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2016)
* Elizabeth Reapy (2017)
* Caitriona Lally (2018)
* Mark O'Connell (2019)
* Stephen Sexton (2020)
* Niamh Campbell (2021)
* Seán Hewitt (2022)
* Michael Magee (2023)

* Dan Rooney
* Oscar Wilde Centre

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Silver Bear for Best Director

1956–1975|

* Robert Aldrich (1956)
* Mario Monicelli (1957)
* Tadashi Imai (1958)
* Akira Kurosawa (1959)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
* Bernhard Wicki (1961)
* Francesco Rosi (1962)
* Nikos Koundouros (1963)
* Satyajit Ray (1964)
* Satyajit Ray (1965)
* Carlos Saura (1966)
* Živojin Pavlović (1967)
* Carlos Saura (1968)
* Jean-Pierre Blanc (1972)
* Sergei Solovyov (1975)

1976–2000|

* Mario Monicelli (1976)
* Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (1977)
* Georgi Djulgerov (1978)
* Astrid Henning-Jensen (1979)
* István Szabó (1980)
* Mario Monicelli (1982)
* Éric Rohmer (1983)
* Costas Ferris / Ettore Scola (1984)
* Robert Benton (1985)
* Georgiy Shengelaya (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Norman Jewison (1988)
* Dušan Hanák (1989)
* Michael Verhoeven (1990)
* Jonathan Demme / Ricky Tognazzi (1991)
* Jan Troell (1992)
* Andrew Birkin (1993)
* Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994)
* Richard Linklater (1995)
* Richard Loncraine / Yim Ho (1996)
* Eric Heumann (1997)
* Neil Jordan (1998)
* Stephen Frears (1999)
* Miloš Forman (2000)

2001–present|

* Lin Cheng-sheng (2001)
* Otar Iosseliani (2002)
* Patrice Chéreau (2003)
* Kim Ki-duk (2004)
* Marc Rothemund (2005)
* Mat Whitecross / Michael Winterbottom (2006)
* Joseph Cedar (2007)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2008)
* Asghar Farhadi (2009)
* Roman Polanski (2010)
* Ulrich Köhler (2011)
* Christian Petzold (2012)
* David Gordon Green (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Radu Jude / Małgorzata Szumowska (2015)
* Mia Hansen-Løve (2016)
* Aki Kaurismäki (2017)
* Wes Anderson (2018)
* Angela Schanelec (2019)
* Hong Sang-soo (2020)
* Dénes Nagy (2021)
* Claire Denis (2022)
* Philippe Garrel (2023)
* Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias (2024)
* Huo Meng (2025)

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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Original Drama
(1969–1983)|

* William Goldman (1969)
* Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North (1970)
* Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
* Jeremy Larner (1972)
* Steve Shagan (1973)
* Robert Towne (1974)
* Frank Pierson (1975)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Arthur Laurents (1977)
* Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones & Waldo Salt (1978)
* Mike Gray, T. S. Cook & James Bridges (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* Warren Beatty & Trevor Griffiths (1981)
* Melissa Mathison (1982)
* Horton Foote (1983)

Original Comedy
(1969–1983)|

* Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker (1969)
* Neil Simon (1970)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
* Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman & Robert Benton (1972)
* Melvin Frank & Jack Rose (1973)
* Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor & Alan Uger (1974)
* Robert Towne & Warren Beatty (1975)
* Bill Lancaster (1976)
* Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Larry Gelbart & Sheldon Keller (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller & Charles Shyer (1980)
* Steve Gordon (1981)
* Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal (1982)
* Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek (1983)

Original Screenplay
(1984–present)|

* Woody Allen (1984)
* William Kelley & Earl W. Wallace (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* John Patrick Shanley (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Woody Allen (1989)
* Barry Levinson (1990)
* Callie Khouri (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Richard Curtis (1994)
* Randall Wallace (1995)
* Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (1996)
* James L. Brooks & Mark Andrus (1997)
* Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard (1998)
* Alan Ball (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Michael Moore (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, & Charlie Kaufman (2004)
* Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco (2005)
* Michael Arndt (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Dustin Lance Black (2008)
* Mark Boal (2009)
* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Mark Boal (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (2014)
* Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer (2015)
* Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Bo Burnham (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Adam McKay & David Sirota (2021)
* Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* David Hemingson (2023)
* Sean Baker (2024)

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