Philippa Lowthorpe
{{Short description|English film and television director}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|12|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter}}
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| years_active = 1992–present
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Philippa Lowthorpe (born 27 December 1961){{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/w698LWFp4DFsRnXlx4EBsyAJpnQ/appointments|publisher=Companies House|title=Philippa Lowthorpe - Personal Appointments|accessdate=2020-01-25}} is an English film and television director. She was awarded the Deluxe Director Award at the WFTV Film and Television Awards for the miniseries Three Girls.{{cite news
|url = https://wftv.org.uk/events-gallery/2017-wftv-award-winners/
|title = Meet the 2017 Women in Film and Television Award Winners
|website = WFTV (Women in Film & TV, UK)
|accessdate = 16 May 2018
|archive-date = 15 January 2018
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180115071808/https://wftv.org.uk/events-gallery/2017-wftv-award-winners/
|url-status = dead
}} She recently directed episodes of the second season of The Crown and the 2020 film Misbehaviour.
Early life
Lowthorpe was born in a village near Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire,{{Cite web|url=https://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=3517|title=UWE Bristol awards honorary degree to Philippa Lowthorpe - UWE Bristol: News Releases|website=info.uwe.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-acting-for-crewe-and-camera-1293672.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-acting-for-crewe-and-camera-1293672.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Interview: Acting for Crewe and camera|date=1997-11-13|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2018-12-28}} and grew up in Nettleham, Lincolnshire. She attended De Aston School in Market Rasen and then went to St Hilda's College, Oxford to study Classics. Lowthorpe moved to Bristol to make documentaries for BBC Bristol, including Three Salons at the Seaside and A Skirt Through History about women's untold stories.
Career
Lowthorpe started out as a director in documentaries. Her award-winning documentaries led her to be invited to write and direct her first drama Eight Hours from Paris (1997) for George Faber, a film for Screen Two in which real people played themselves, alongside professional actors. This was followed by The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Philippa Gregory, for BBC films, shown on BBC 2.
She was lead director on the very first series of Call the Midwife. Her opening episode gained the highest audience for any debut of a drama in the past decade. She also directed the first Call the Midwife Christmas Special (2013), for which she won a BAFTA for directing. She is the only woman ever to have won this award.
Other directing credits include the multi-award-winning Five Daughters (2010), Jamaica Inn (2014), Cider with Rosie (2015), and the feature film Swallows and Amazons (2016) for BFI/Studio Canal/BBC films.
Her credits include Jamaica Inn, Call the Midwife, for which she won a British Academy Television Craft Award in 2013,{{cite web|url=http://www.directors.uk.com/about-us/news/lowthorpe-becomes-baftas-first-female-drama-director-winner|title=Lowthorpe becomes BAFTA's first female drama director winner|accessdate=23 April 2014|website=Directors UK|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429083045/http://www.directors.uk.com/about-us/news/lowthorpe-becomes-baftas-first-female-drama-director-winner|archivedate=29 April 2014}}
Five Daughters, Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), and The Other Boleyn Girl (2003). A 2013 interview with her appears on the BAFTA website,{{cite web|url=http://guru.bafta.org/philippa-lowthorpe-big-questions|accessdate=23 April 2014|title=Philippa Lowthorpe: Big Questions|website=BAFTA}} and she received a British Film Institute award in 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-first-feature-awards-announcement-2013-07-29.pdf|title=BFI announces support for Philippa Lowthorpe, Andrew Steggall and Jane Lightfoot in latest round of First Feature Awards|accessdate=23 April 2014|website=BFI}} Her very first feature film Swallows and Amazons won Grand Prize Feature at New York International Children's Film Festival, and the Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature at Seattle International Film Festival in 2017.{{cite web
|url = http://old-site.nyicff.org/wp-content/uploads/NYICFF2017-Awards.pdf
|title = New York International Children's Film Festival - Announces 2017 Award Winners
|website = MYICFF
|accessdate = May 16, 2018
|archive-date = 16 May 2018
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180516103032/http://old-site.nyicff.org/wp-content/uploads/NYICFF2017-Awards.pdf
|url-status = dead
|url = https://www.siff.net/festival/siff-2017-award-winners
|title = SIFF 2017 Award Winners
|website = SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival)
|date =
|accessdate = May 16, 2018
|archive-date = 17 July 2017
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170717204421/https://www.siff.net/festival/siff-2017-award-winners
|url-status = dead
Lowthorpe's recent work, the BBC mini-series Three Girls (2017) about the Rochdale young child exploitation, reunited her with Executive Producer Susan Hogg and Producer Simon Lewis who she had previously worked with on the award-winning Five Daughters. The series was awarded by BAFTA for best directing in fiction, with writer Nicole Taylor recognised for best writing in a drama series, and Úna Ní Dhonghaíle for best editing in fiction, in 2018. In May 2018 "Three Girls" was also voted Best Mini Series at the BAFTA TV Awards (shared with Nicole Taylor, Susan Hogg and Simon Lewis). In October 2018 "Three Girls" also won the Prix Italia (again shared with Nicole Taylor, Susan Hogg and Simon Lewis).
Filmography
=Film and television=
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|+ {{swatch inline|#ffa|DR}} Director — {{swatch inline|#ffa|WR}} Writer — {{swatch inline|#ffa|OT}} Other ! style="width:3%;" scope="col"| Year ! style="width:33%;" scope="col"| Title | style="background: #ffa; width:4%;" scope="col" | DR | style="background: #ffa; width:4%;" scope="col" | WR | style="background: #ffa; width:6%;" scope="col" | OT ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 1992
|{{no2}} |{{no2}} |{{ya}} | Documentary series;{{cite news |url = https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/220/20?q=40+minutes+&svc=9371535 |title = 40 Minutes |website = BBC Genome |accessdate = May 16, 2018}} |
| 1994
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{ya}} | Documentary;{{cite news | url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7dab57d2 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517013829/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7dab57d2 | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 May 2018 | title = Three Salons at the Seaside (1994) | website=BFI | accessdate =May 16, 2018}} also producer |
| 1994
|A Skirt Through History |{{ya}} |{{ya}} |{{ya}} | Documentary series;{{cite news | url = http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/SeriesDetails.aspx?SeriesID=23938 | title = A Skirt Through History | website = BBC Active's Video for Learning | accessdate = May 16, 2018 | archive-date = 16 May 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180516175209/http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/SeriesDetails.aspx?SeriesID=23938 | url-status = dead }} also producer; |
| 1997
|Eight Hours from Paris |{{ya}} |{{ya}} |{{ya}} | Television film for Screen Two; also producer |
| 2003
|{{ya}} |{{ya}} |{{no2}} | Television film |
| 2006
|Beau Brummell: This Charming Man |{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | Television film |
| 2007
|Sex, the City and Me |{{ya}} |{{ya}} |{{no2}} | Television film{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qyh4 | title = BBC Two - Sex, the City and Me | website = BBC | accessdate =May 16, 2018}} |
| 2010
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | Miniseries; all 3 parts |
| 2013-2014
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | 5 episodes |
| 2014
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | Miniseries; all 3 parts |
| 2015
|Cider with Rosie |{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | Television film{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031vh0t | title = BBC Two - Cider with Rosie | website = BBC | accessdate =May 16, 2018}} |
| 2016
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | |
| 2017
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | Miniseries; all 3 parts |
| 2017
|{{ya}} |{{no2}} |{{no2}} | Episodes: "Marionettes", "Vergangenheit" |
| 2020
| {{ya}} | {{no2}} | {{no2}} | |
| 2022
| Willow | {{ya}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | |
| TBA
| {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{no2}} | |
Awards and nominations
{{Incomplete list|date=May 2018}}
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| style="width:2%;" scope="col"| Year
! style="width:33%;" scope="col"| Association ! style="width:41%;" scope="col"| Category ! style="width:33%;" scope="col"| Work ! style="width:2%;" scope="col" | Result ! style="width:1%;" scope="col" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
|---|
| 1995
| Best Single Documentary | Three Salons at the Seaside | {{won}} |url = |title= Royal Television Society, UK - 1995 Awards |date = |website= IMDb }} |
| rowspan="3" | 2011
| rowspan="2" | RTS Programme Awards - West of England | Best Television Drama | rowspan="2" | Five Daughters | {{Nom}} {{ref label|five|4a}} | rowspan="2"|{{cite web | title = West of England Award Winners and Nominees 2010 | website = UK RTS | url = https://www.rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/Bristol/RTS%20Award%20Winners%202010%20complete.pdf | accessdate = May 20, 2018 }} |
| Best Director
| {{Won}} |
| RTS Programme Awards
| Best Drama Serial | Five Daughters | {{Won}} {{ref label|five|4a}} | title = RTS Programme Awards 2011 | website = UK RTS | date = 16 March 2011 | url = https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2011 | accessdate = May 20, 2018 }} |
| rowspan="6" | 2013
| British Academy Television Craft Awards | Best Director - Fiction / Entertainment | rowspan="4" | Call the Midwife | {{won}} | |
| British Academy Television Awards
| {{nom}} {{ref label|callmid|1a}} | |
| Television and Radio Industries Club Awards
| HD Drama Programme of the Year | {{won}} {{ref label|callmid|1a}} |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/21771078 |title = BBC leads the pack at TRIC Awards |date= March 13, 2013 |website = BBC |publisher= |access-date= May 20, 2018 |quote= }} |
| Christopher Award
| Television & Cable | {{won}} {{ref label|callmid|1b}} |url= http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christophers/2013/04/the-2013-christopher-award-winners-for-tv-film-and-books-are/ |title= The 2013 Christopher Award Winners for TV, Film and Books Are… |last= Rossi |first= Tony |date= April 9, 2013 |website= Patheos |access-date= May 19, 2018 |quote= }} |
| RTS Programme Awards - West of England
| Best Director Drama | Call the Midwife | {{Won}} | title = RTS West of England Awards 2013 | website = UK RTS | date = 8 April 2016 | url = https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-west-england-awards-2013 | accessdate = May 20, 2018 }} |
| RTS Programme Awards
| Best Drama Series | Call the Midwife] | {{Nom}} {{ref label|callmid|1a}} | title = RTS Programme Awards Awards 2013 | website = UK RTS | date = 19 March 2013 | url = https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2013 | accessdate = May 20, 2018 }} |
| rowspan="3" | 2017
| Seattle International Film Festival | Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature | rowspan="3" | Swallows and Amazons | {{won}} {{ref label|swallows|3a}} |url= https://www.siff.net/festival/siff-2017-award-winners |title= SIFF 2017 Award Winners |date= |website= SIFF |access-date= May 20, 2018 |archive-date= 17 July 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170717204421/https://www.siff.net/festival/siff-2017-award-winners |url-status= dead }} |
| RTS Programme Awards - West of England
| Best Director, Drama | {{Nom}} | title = RTS West of England Awards 2017 | website = UK RTS | date = 29 March 2017 | url = https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-west-england-awards-2017 | accessdate = May 20, 2018 }} |
| New York International Children's Film Festival
| Grand Prize Feature | {{Won}} {{ref label|swallows|3a}} |url= http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/heads-together-wins-2017-nyicff-short-grand-prize/ |title= New York Int'l Children's Film Festival Announces Complete 2017 Slate |author = Jennifer Wolfe |date= January 20, 2017 |website= AWN |publisher= |access-date= May 20, 2018 |quote= }} |
| rowspan="2" | 2017
| The Deluxe Director Award | Herself | {{won}} | title = Meet the 2017 Women in Film and Television Award Winners | website = WFTV | date = December 2, 2017 | url = https://wftv.org.uk/events-gallery/2017-wftv-award-winners/ | accessdate = May 17, 2018 | archive-date = 15 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180115071808/https://wftv.org.uk/events-gallery/2017-wftv-award-winners/ | url-status = dead }} |
| {{ill|Festival de la Fiction TV Awards|fr| Festival de la fiction TV de La Rochelle}}
| {{ill|Jury Special Prize for European Fiction|fr| Festival de la fiction TV de La Rochelle 2017}} | Three Girls | {{won}} {{ref label|threeg1|2a}} | |
| rowspan="7" | 2018
| British Academy Television Craft Awards | rowspan="4" | Three Girls | {{won}} | |
| British Academy Television Awards
| {{nom}} {{ref label|threeg1|2a}} | |
| Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
| Best Single Drama/Mini-series | {{Won}} {{ref label|threeg1|2a}} |url = http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/bpg-awards/2018-2/ |title = BPG Awards 2018 |date = 16 May 2018 |accessdate = 17 May 2018 |website = Broadcasting Press Guild Association }} |
| UK Broadcast Awards
| Best Drama Series or Serial | {{won}} {{ref label|threeg1|2a}} |url = https://broadcastawards.co.uk/winners-2018/ |title = Winners 2018 |date = February 2019 |accessdate = 19 May 2018 |website = The Broadcast Awards |archive-date = 19 May 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180519205251/https://broadcastawards.co.uk/winners-2018/ |url-status = dead }} |
| rowspan="2" | RTS Programme Awards - West of England
| Best Television Drama | rowspan="2" | Three Girls | {{Won}} {{ref label|threeg1|2a}} | rowspan="2"|{{cite web | author = Bristol | title = RTS West of England Awards - winners announced! | website = UK RTS | date = March 18, 2018 | url = https://rts.org.uk/article/rts-west-england-awards-winners-announced | accessdate = May 12, 2018 }} |
| Best Director Drama
| {{Won}} |
| RTS Programme Awards
| Best Mini-Series | Three Girls | {{Won}} {{ref label|threeg1|2a}} | rowspan="2"|{{cite news | author = | title = RTS Programme Awards 2018, In Partnership with Audio Network | website = UK RTS | date = | url = https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2018-partnership-audio-network | accessdate = May 16, 2018 }} |
;Notes:
:1. {{note label|callmid|1a}} Call the Midwife — with Heidi Thomas (writer), Hugh Warren (producer), and Pippa Harris (executive producer)
: ... {{note label|callmid|1b}} — with Heidi Thomas (writer) and Pippa Harris (executive producer)
:2. {{note label|threeg1|2a}} Three Girls — with Nicole Taylor (writer), Simon Lewis (producer), and Susan Hogg (executive producer)
:3. {{note label|swallows|3a}} Swallows and Amazons — with Andrea Gibb
:4. {{note label|five|4a}} Five Daughters — with Stephen Butchard and Simon Lewis
Honours
- Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts in recognition of Lowthorpe's contribution to film and television, UWE Bristol.{{cite news
|url = https://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=3517
|title = UWE Bristol awards honorary degree to Philippa Lowthorpe
|website = UWE Bristol
|date = November 23, 2016
|accessdate = May 16, 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1339400|name=Philippa Lowthorpe}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170726145142/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9dc0cbd Philippa Lowthorpe] — BFI
- {{Twitter | hililowthorpe | Philippa Lowthorpe}}
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