[…]st: J. Stuart Blackton, Commodore Blackton he liked to be called.Roy Fowler: Yes?Eddie Dryhurst: [Chuckles] I wonder why?Roy Fowler: Which was a self-awarded title was it, or rank?Eddie Dryhurst: I don't know, I know he liked to be called Commodore.Roy Fowler: Sounds like a Southern Colonelcy doesn'[…]
[…]lons out of their self-inflicted doo-doo later in the year when their ultimate boss arrived at the Odeon Edinburgh to be presented with a prestigious award from Films of Scotland at the Film Festival. I would presume this award was in some way recognition for his having helped green-light location w[…]
[…]he fellow became a director - oh heck - a young, well not all that young now, obviously - I'll think of it later. As a matter of fact he just got the award for the best colour photography and black and white photography this last year, I think it was a BAFTA award.Manny Yospa: Do you mean Bob Kraske[…]
[…]. The extraordinary 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 w[…]
[…]dibly submitted the film for an Oscar and we didn’t know anything about it, they didn't tell us, and we suddenly heard one day you've won the Academy Award. So we said oh, that's very nice. And the chief result of winning the Academy Award for was that the film was taken on by a British distributor […]
[…]he Cannes Festival under the banner of London Films, it was British Lion by then, and he 7 asked to send it to Cannes which he did and it won an award of course for the short film of that year.And so it was entirely by luck, it could have sat down in those vaults forever, because it was a year […]
[…]e more interesting was probably cry freedom. I probably did. Yeah, I think it was quite creative. I must admit, I did get nominated for a Golden real award on that. And we got a certificate didn't win it. However, but I enjoyed doing that. And again, it was very, it was fun, because you're just play[…]
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[…]et a Silver Medal at the BMA Competition so I was quite pleased about that.[10:12]Mm, good.Really, it was my first experience of, of actually winning awards, an award. And Ithink it was after that, I think directly after that because they hadn’t got any films thatthe talk started about me possibly g[…]
[…]remember going back when they finally after whatever period was I know some weeks I suppose. They came to me one day and then I was taken out of this award. And they were in another room and I met my mother and father after first the first time after all this time and I couldn't understand it of cou[…]
