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James Hawes is a British television director. He has worked in British television drama since the mid-1990s, and has also produced documentaries for British and American television networks.
James Hawes (born 1960) is a British novelist and popular historian who has been an official bestseller in both genres. He has also written theatrically released screen adaptations of two of his works. He teaches creative writing at Oxford University.
James Hawes. Director: One Life. James Hawes set-up and directed the entire first season of 'Slow Horses' for AppleTV+. His debut feature, 'One Life', premiered at TIFF and LFF in September 2023 and releases in the UK and US in early 2024.
Jan 1, 2024 · One Life: Directed by James Hawes. With Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter. Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
James Hawes has dedicated much of his directing career to bringing powerful true stories to the screen. It's only fitting then that the prolific television director's feature debut film is One Life , a moving biopic about a genuine hero — British humanitarian Nicholas Winton — brought to the big screen starring one of cinema's greatest actors.
James Hawes has established himself over the last decade as one of Britain’s leading comic novelists. Described by The Daily Telegraph as 'a poet of despair', and, since the publication of Speak for England (2005), his fifth novel, consecrated by The Guardian as satirist laureate, he has been compared with everyone from Tom Sharpe to Evelyn ...
With One Life, which stars two-time Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins as the humanitarian Sir Nicholas "Nicky" Winton, Hawes is contributing his own work to the canon. "It's completely wonderful and utterly thrilling," he says of helming his first film for the big screen.
Dec 29, 2023 · James Hawes is interviewed for One Life. Directed James Hawes, Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn both play Nicholas Winton at different stages of his extraordinary life. Helena Bonham-Carter...
James Hawes. Click to buy. Based on the landmark BBC series Art That Made Us. Explore the history of the British isles through 80 extraordinary creations – from Beowulf and the Bayeux Tapestry to Banksy, Stormzy, and beyond...
He has appeared on Radio 4 Today, Channel 4 News, Sky News and GB News. In 2022, he was “series story consultant” and key on-screen commentator in the eight-part BBC TV series “Art that Made Us”. He also wrote the accompanying book. His next book will be The Shortest History of Ireland.
