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Tom Hooper
Thomas George Hooper is a British-Australian filmmaker. Known for his work in film and television he has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for Golden Globe Award.
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entertainment · British-Australian film director · film director · television director · screenwriter · film producer · also Tom Hooper, Hooper
Born 5 October 1972 · Q295912
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2026· 8 entries
“suggest the awkwardness and tension of Logue and Bertie”
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“It was like half a dozen of the biggest female movie stars on the planet wanted to play the role”
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“The clockwork would run out after thirty seconds, so the maximum shot length was thirty seconds. I could only afford a hundred feet of Kodachrome reversal film, which cost about twenty-five [pounds], and you had to send off for two weeks to be processed. I could only make silent movies, because sound was too expensive and complicated.”
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The News International: Who was Lily Hooper? Missing teen hiker found dead in Australian bush after 8-day search
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The Times of India: 18-year-old Sydney hiker Lily Hooper found dead after 8-day search in Australian bushland
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New York Post: Australian hiker Lily Hooper, 18, found dead after family mistakenly told she was alive during 8-day search
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BBC: Lily Hooper: Missing teen hiker found dead in Australian bush after eight-day search
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2023· 1 entry
Co-supervised a new digital remix and remaster of Les Misérables in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, in collaboration with producer Cameron Mackintosh, music producer Lee McCutcheon, music director Stephen Metcalfe and s
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Tom the Hooper”.
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: 'In homage to cockroach limbs': Tom Hooper's Cats commentary deepens the mystery
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Tom Hooper's Cats film to be gender flipped as Judi Dench joins cast
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The Guardian: Taylor Swift to star in Tom Hooper's Cats movie
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Tom Hooper to milk Cats musical for movie version
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2015· 2 entries
Released ep “Tom Hooper and the Angry Hippies”.
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Released album “Tom’s Journey Through the Solar System”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Basement Suite”.
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film for The King's Speech (2011).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The King's Speech (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Songs from the Trailer”.
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Elizabeth I (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
Hooper was asked by Helen Mirren to direct the Company Pictures/HBO Films two-part serial Elizabeth I, in which she was starring
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Making it eligible for the BAFTA Television Awards; it was nominated in the Best Single Drama category at the 2006 ceremony
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “The Unexplored Cosmos”.
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Hooper directed Daniel Deronda, adapted from George Eliot's novel
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2001· 1 entry
Hooper directed his first of two costume dramas for the BBC; Love in a Cold Climate was based on Nancy Mitford's novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate
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2000· 1 entry
And 2001; the first was the episode in which Carol Jackson (Lindsey Coulson) learns her daughter Bianca (Patsy Palmer) had an affair with her fiancé Dan Sullivan (Craig Fairbrass)
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1999· 1 entry
Hooper directed two episodes of Granada Television's comedy-drama television series Cold Feet, which marked his move to bigger-budget productions
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1997· 1 entry
Four episodes of the Children's BBC television series Byker Grove in the same year, and his first episodes of the BBC One soap opera EastEnders in 1998
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1996· 1 entry
Joined the commercial production company John S
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1992· 1 entry
Had a screening at the 35th London Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-10-05.
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