Biographies on the British Winners

Daniel Day-Lewis- Leading Actor 'Lincoln'

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship.Day-Lewis, who grew up in London, is the son of actress Jill Balcon and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis. Despite his training in the classical presentational acting style at the Bristol Old Vic, he is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Often, he will remain completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedule of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only five films since 1998, with as many as five years between roles.

He has twice won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007). He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and the Screen Actors' Guild Award for his role as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York(2002). Most recently, he won his fourth BAFTA Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his role as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), for which he is also currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Sam Mendes (Outstanding British Film)

Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director. He is best known for directing American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the crime film Road to Perdition (2002); the James Bond movie Skyfall (2012), and his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994) and Company(1996), as well as Gypsy (2003).

In 2000, Mendes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to drama", and in 2005 received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

Michael G. Wilson (Outstanding British Film)

Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE (born January 21, 1942) is the producer and screenwriter of many James Bond movies.

In 1972, Wilson joined Eon Productions, the production company responsible for the James Bond film series dating back to 1962 that began with his stepfather Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Wilson specifically worked in Eon Productions' legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). In 1979 Wilson became executive producer of the film Moonraker and since has been an executive producer or producer in every James Bond film, currently co-producing with his half-sister Barbara.

Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989 Michael G. Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay to Licence to Kill alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, west which prevented Maibaum from having any further involvement. For both, this was their final James Bond script, as Maibaum died in 1991 and Wilson ceased writing, although Wilson technically went on to outline the next film in the series with Alfonse Ruggiero that was eventually scrapped due to internal legal wranglings between Eon Productions and MGM (the following film, GoldenEye being a completely different story written by Michael France).

Barbara Broccoli (Outstanding British Film)

Barbara Broccoli, OBE (born June 18, 1960) is an American film producer known for her work on the James Bond film series.

Broccoli is the daughter of the James Bond producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and actress Dana Wilson Broccoli (née Natol). As of 2012, she co-produces Bond films with her half-brother Michael G.Wilson.

She was appointed Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen of the United Kingdom in the 2008 New Years Honours.

Neal Purvis

Neal Purvis (born 9 September 1961) and Robert Wade (born 1962) are English Screenwriters, who have co-written the five James Bond Films from The World is not Enough to Skyfall, as well as other works. The two have been called "one of Britain's most successful screenwriting partnerships".

John Logan

John David Logan (born September 24, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer.
Logan was a successful playwright in Chicago for many years before turning to screenwriting. His first play, Never the Sinner, tells the story of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Subsequent plays include Hauptmann, about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and Riverview, a musical melodrama set at Chicago's famed amusement park.
His play Red, about artist Mark Rothko, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse, London in December 2009, and on Broadway, where it received six Tony Awards in mid-June 2010, the most of any play, including best play, best direction of a play for Michael Grandage and best featured actor in a play for Eddie Redmayne. Redmayne and Alfred Molina had originated their roles in London and brought them to New York for a limited run ending in late June.
Logan wrote Any Given Sunday and the television movie RKO 281, before gaining an Academy Award nomination for co-writing (with David Franzoni and William Nicholson) the Best Picture-winner, Gladiator in 2000. He gained another nomination for writing 2004's The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Other notable films written by Logan include Star Trek:Nemesis, The TimeMachine, The Last Samurai, and the Tim Burton-directed musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he received a Golden Globe Awards.
Logan's recent feature films include Rang, an animated feature starring Johnny Depp and directed by Gore Verbinski, the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret directed by Martin Scorsese and the James Bond film. Skyfall, along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. He is slated to pen the next two Bond films with the working titles Bond 24 and Bond 25.

Jacqueline Durran

Jacqueline Durran is a British costume designer. She won the BAFTA award for Vera Drake. She received considerable attention for her work in Pride & Prejudice (2005 film), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Costume Design nomination and won a Satellite Award. She was also nominated for Best Costume Design for her work on Atonement and Anna Karenina.

Simon Hayes

Simon recorded Tom Hooper's Les Miserables. His other recent feature credits include Ridley Scott's The Counselor, starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Javier Bardem and Prometheus, starring Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba. He has also worked with director Danny Boyle on Trance, starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassell.

Simon won the UK Screen Association's Conch Award for Production Sound Mixer of the Year in 2008, 2009 and 2012. He also received the Golden Reel Award in 2002 for Best Sound on Snatch.Simon has collaborated extensively with director Matthew Vaughn on several features including Stardust, Layer Cake, Kick Ass and X-Men: First Class. Other varied film credits include Daniel Barber's Harry Brown, Paul Greengrass's Green Zone, Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia!, Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.Simon was born in London and began his career in the film industry in 1986.

Juno Temple

Temple began her career as a child actress in the 1997 film Vigo: Passion for Life, a film about Jean Vigo. Another film directed by her father starred Juno in 2000 when she played Emma Southey in Pandaemonium.
She has won critical praise for several supporting roles. One reviewer said that she played her part in Notes on a Scandal with "petulance and angst".  while her performance as Lola Quincey in Atonement has been called "impressive".  She auditioned to play Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,  but lost out to Evanna Lynch. Some of her other film credits include Celia in St. Trinian's and St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, Drippy (Jennifer Logan) in Wild Child, and Jane Parker in The Other Boleyn Girl. In 2009, Temple starred as Eema in the comedy Year One alongside Jack Black and Michael Cera. She also played Anna in Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody and Di Radfield in the adaption of Sheila Kohler's Cracks.
She starred in Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl, which premiered on 12 September 2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival, co-starring Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Dozier, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen and Tim McGraw.
Temple has also appeared in Kid Harpoon's music video "Milkmaid" and Plushgun's "Just Impolite".In 2010, she appeared in an sketch for FunnyOrDie called "Cycop" which premiered on 12 July 2010 and featured the protagonist, from the indie film The Mother of Invention in a poorly made film of his creation. The sketch starred Temple, Andrew Bowser, Ryan Cartwright and Zelda Williams. She also had a major role in the film Kaboom, first winner of the Queer Palm.
In 2011, Temple appeared in Paul W.S. Aderson's 3D film aaption of The ThreeMusketeers, as Anne of Austria, the Queen Consort of France. The film als starred Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich, Christoph Waltz, and Mads Mikkelsen. She appeared in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), as a "street-smart Gotham girl." She also portrayed Diane in the lesbian lycanthropic tale Jack & Diane.
Temple the Elgin James film Little Birds. James offered her the choice of playing either f the two female leads and she hose to portray Lily, citing that she connected with the character more and "wanted to set her free." Temple and James worked on the film together for two years, becoming close. They continue to collaborate and in interviews refer to each other as "best friends" and "family". James has said he made Little Birds to honor the strong women in his life, including Temple. In February 2013 Temple won the EE Rising Star BAFTA, voted for by the public.

Alan Parker

Prior to moving into film, Alan was noted as one of London's most talented advertising copywriters. He worked for the Collet Dickinson Pearce (CDP) ad agency in the 1960's and early 1970's, and began directing his own tvc scripts in their basement. Formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a photographers' agent), and left CDP to become a full time director of commercials before moving onto features.