[…]never it was. It was November…I: Oh, sorry.R: …but it was certainly a Friday. It was the night of the Academy, Television Academy Awards, and the whole of television, BBC and ITV, had gone to the Dorchester Hotel for that night’s presentations. I[…]
[…]es, which is not bad. One year was all nominated twice, two, two films came out, and both were nominated forRoy Fowler 35:16 the American Academy. But the American Academy, yes, yes, yes. That's an astonishing record.Speaker 1 35:22 So you know, when you talk about Balkan, I […]
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Maybe. Because...
Pressurised them?
Maybe it was a release, a release from Mickey Balcon.
Yes. The Academy as it was called.
Yes.
Mm. I had always assumed that it was some, chemical problem I suppose with Hamer.
I suppose so. I don’t know.
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[…].JPH: It was 1954 when Lloyd asked you.So one was hired by...DS: Rediffusion....someone applying for a franchise at this stage, or had they been awarded a contract?JPH: No, they’d been awarded the franchise. It was the year, the year, bill, they were awarded the franchise at the beginning […]
[…]nd this happened with one or two people. But if you kept your kept your head down, said yes at the right minute and as your bride and tried to do the best you could and showed that you were trying to do the best you could. And you also had enthusiasm via terrific enthusiasm. I was I was a bit stupid[…]
[…]en thirty and be in London by about ten thirty and then I could spend the day at the movies and I used to come up at least once a month and go to the Academy of Studio One or wherever the more interesting films were and furthered my own education that way and also had got to know a few people in Lon[…]
[…]dinary thing is and I would have tocheck the facts on this, I think it was the first time that any British film had beennominated for an award by the Academy, and I got the award for art direction that year. Ididn't get the actual Oscar, I got the nomination, not the award. I think it was the very f[…]
[…]o the future. It’s very exciting.JR: Indeed. Virginia McKenna, thank you very much.VM: Thank you.JR: Not mentioned in Virginia’s account: the British Academy Award for Best Actress for A Town Like Alice; the BBC’s TV Award for Best Actress for Romeo and Juliet; the Belgian Prix Femina Award for Carv[…]
[…]in Jamaica. Yes.SPEAKER: M14Another film that was taken away from me went NC by Elmer Williams Believe it or not the man who did High Noon and got an Academy Award for it. Yes.SPEAKER: M8Who. Who was running Fox at the time here and had a cutting room constructed next to his office since I was queer[…]
