Search Results for: Academy Award Best Director Midnight Cowboy (1969)

[…] I was doing and I was able to produce the best colour pictures that this country ever saw. When I […]

[…]. Huw Wheldon is another of the seminal figures in the BBC who I really revere actually, because I do think that they represented the BBC at its very best. There was Haley, there was Joanna, Huw. Well, there are others, but I mean the ones that I was connected with, so to speak. And Huw, as I think […]

[…]you know, senior officers, senior army officers, or, you name it, big bureaucrats and everything else, with my own servant. And waiting, I think, the best part of a month, for a C Class flying boat flight on the old Imperial Airways, up to Cairo. I forget exactly how long it was, it might be less th[…]

[…] shot. Anyway, he went to the ministry of information. The job he was doing the ministry of information was all the generals were being given Russian awards, you know, Tedder and cross those they were given Award, which he entitled them to free rides on the trams in Moscow, as well as the decoration[…]

[…] do think that they represented the BBC at its very best. There was Haley, there was Joanna, Huw. Well, there […]

[…] work on The Wrong Box (1967), and her aforementioned 1966 Academy award, regularly punctuate the decade, providing palpable evidence of […]

[…]f my Mother’s when we were living in …we had a pub in Bayswater by this time and she was one of her customers and her daughter was going to the Royal Academy and she said “You know, Peter loves acting, do you think he could … why doesn’t he go to the RADA and try to get in to the RADA.”  Now, y[…]

[…]u know. Not likethe quiet sets that David Lean had. Then there was Much Ado and that was the last one. Oh, Henry V, of course I got an Academy award for. Then there was Much Ado.Now Much Ado, after the mud of Agincourt, the beautiful sunshine of Tuscany was it?Yeah.Absolutel[…]

[…]ed up being a very good weaver in a Rudolph Steiner community near Gloucester. And that is where she is buried, and I put up a memorial to her at the Academy, because that was her greatest joy in life, to see a film with me there and have dinner, and maybe recognise some important personalities she'[…]