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==Filmography==
==Filmography==
'''Film'''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
* ''The Errand'' (1980) (Short film)
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" width="70" | Year
* ''The Caravaggio Conspiracy'' (1984)
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
* ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]'' (1995)
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role

! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
'''TV movies'''
|-valign="top"
* ''Ligmalion: A Musical for the 80s'' (1985)
| align="center" | 1978 || ''[[Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood|Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision]]''
* ''Raspberry Ripple'' (1986)
| director; producer || ''[[Omnibus (UK TV series)|Omnibus]]'' series TV documentary; also known as ''Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood''
* ''[[The Lost Language of Cranes (film)|The Lost Language of Cranes]]''{{efn|Also featured as an episode in the ''[[Screen Two]]'' series}} (1991)
|-valign="top"

| align="center" | 1978 || ''My Way''
'''TV series'''
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
{| class="wikitable"
|-valign="top"
! Year
| align="center" | 1980 || ''The Errand''
! Title
| director || short film
! Notes
|-valign="top"
|-
| align="center" | 1981 || ''Did You Miss Me?''
| 1986
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
| ''[[Screen Two]]''
|-valign="top"
| Episode "Shergar"
| align="center" | 1981 || ''Chelsea Hotel''
|-
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary of the [[Hotel Chelsea]] in New York City
| 1988
|-valign="top"
| ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]''
| align="center" | 1982 || ''The Private Life of the Ford Cortina''
| Episode "Whatever Lola Wants"
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
|-
|-valign="top"
| 1992–1993
| align="center" | 1983 || ''Kurt Vonnegut , Jr: "Deadeye Dick"''
| ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera]]''
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
| Miniseries
|-valign="top"
|-
| align="center" | 1984 || ''The Caravaggio Conspiracy''
| director ||
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1985 || ''Ligmalion: A Musical for the 80s''
| director; producer || TV film
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1986 || ''Raspberry Ripple''
| director || TV film
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1986 || ''Shergar''
| director || ''[[Screen Two]]'' TV series episode (Season 2, Episode 11)
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1988 || ''Robert Mapplethorpe''
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary featuring [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1988 || ''Whatever Lola Wants''
| director || ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' TV series episode
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1989 || ''[[25x5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones]]''
| director || TV documentary
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1991 || ''[[Paris Is Burning (film)|Paris Is Burning]]''<ref>{{Citation|last=Xtravaganza|first=Brooke|title=Paris Is Burning|date=1991-08-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|last2=Christian|last3=Corey|last4=Duprée|first2=André|first3=Dorian|first4=Paris|access-date=2017-04-28}}</ref>
| executive producer || documentary
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1991 || ''Kenneth Anger''
| director || documentary about film-maker [[Kenneth Anger]]
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1991 || ''[[The Lost Language of Cranes (film)|The Lost Language of Cranes]]''
| director || TV film; also 1992 ''[[Screen Two]]'' TV series episode (Season 8, Episode 4)
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1992–1993 || ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera]]''
| director || TV miniseries
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1993 || ''Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue''
| director || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary on the [[Buddy Holly]] song "[[Peggy Sue (song)|Peggy Sue]]"
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1993 || ''Pirates''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3a839bae20c64e0f8217f2bcb77da017|title=Arena: Radio Night - BBC Two England, 18 December 1993 - BBC Genome |work=[[BBC Genome]]|access-date=2016-10-24}}</ref>
| director; producer || ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary on [[East London]] [[UK pirate radio|pirate radio]] stations, as part of ''Arena: Radio Night''
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1994 || ''[[Louise Bourgeois: No Trespassing]]''
| director ||
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1995 || ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]''
| director ||
|}
|}

===Documentary works===
'''TV movies'''
* ''[[25x5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones]]'' (1989)

'''TV series'''
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Title
! Episode
|-
|rowspan=2| 1978
| ''[[Omnibus (UK TV series)|Omnibus]]''
| "[[Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood|Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision]]" (Also producer)
|-
|rowspan=10| ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]''
| ''My Way''
|-
|rowspan=2| 1981
| ''Did You Miss Me?''
|-
| ''Chelsea Hotel''
|-
| 1982
| ''The Private Life of the Ford Cortina''
|-
| 1983
| ''Kurt Vonnegut , Jr: "Deadeye Dick"''
|-
| 1988
| ''Robert Mapplethorpe''
|-
| 1991
| ''Kenneth Anger''
|-
|rowspan=2| 1993
| ''Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue''
|-
| ''Pirates''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3a839bae20c64e0f8217f2bcb77da017|title=Arena: Radio Night - BBC Two England, 18 December 1993 - BBC Genome |work=[[BBC Genome]]|access-date=2016-10-24}}</ref> (Also producer)
|-
| 1994
| ''Louise Bourgeois: No Trespassing''
|}

'''Executive producer'''
* ''[[Paris Is Burning (film)|Paris Is Burning]]''<ref>{{Citation|last=Xtravaganza|first=Brooke|title=Paris Is Burning|date=1991-08-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|last2=Christian|last3=Corey|last4=Duprée|first2=André|first3=Dorian|first4=Paris|access-date=2017-04-28}}</ref> (1991)


==Accolades==
==Accolades==
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|-
|-
| align="center"| 1988
| align="center"| 1988
| [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA TV Award]]
|rowspan=5| [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA TV Award]]
| [[British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand|Best Factual Series]]
|rowspan=5| [[British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand|Best Factual Series]]
| ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' TV series
|rowspan=5| ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1989
| align="center"| 1989
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1990
| align="center"| 1990
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1991
| align="center"| 1991
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1992
| align="center"| 1992
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
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| [[BFI London Film Festival]]
| [[BFI London Film Festival]]
| Audience Award
| Audience Award
| ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]''
|rowspan=2| ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
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| [[Frameline Film Festival]]
| [[Frameline Film Festival]]
| Audience Award
| Audience Award
| ''Stonewall''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|}
|}
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==References==
==References==
{{Notelist}}
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


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[[Category:AIDS-related deaths in England]]
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Latest revision as of 17:14, 15 August 2023

Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch (1 August 1949 – 14 February 1995) was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema.[1]

Biography[edit]

Nigel Finch was born in Tenterden, Kent, the son of Graham and Tibby Finch, and raised in Bromley, south east London. He studied art history at the University of Sussex.[2]

Finch began working as co-editor for the BBC television documentary series Arena in the early 1970s.[2] He produced and directed many notable programs including My Way (1978), and The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982). He rose to prominence with the documentary Chelsea Hotel (1981), which profiled the famed New York hotel[3] and its legacy of famous gay guests, including Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, William S. Burroughs, Quentin Crisp and Andy Warhol. His documentary subjects include artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1988), filmmaker Kenneth Anger (1991),[1] and artist Louise Bourgeois (1994). Finch went on to direct films such as the BAFTA-nominated drama The Lost Language of Cranes, and the musical soap opera The Vampyr.

Finch died from AIDS-related illness in London in 1995 during post-production of his first full-length feature film Stonewall, a docudrama loosely based on events leading up to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.[2][4]

Filmography[edit]

Film

  • The Errand (1980) (Short film)
  • The Caravaggio Conspiracy (1984)
  • Stonewall (1995)

TV movies

TV series

Year Title Notes
1986 Screen Two Episode "Shergar"
1988 Bergerac Episode "Whatever Lola Wants"
1992–1993 The Vampyr: A Soap Opera Miniseries

Documentary works[edit]

TV movies

TV series

Year Title Episode
1978 Omnibus "Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision" (Also producer)
Arena My Way
1981 Did You Miss Me?
Chelsea Hotel
1982 The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1983 Kurt Vonnegut , Jr: "Deadeye Dick"
1988 Robert Mapplethorpe
1991 Kenneth Anger
1993 Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue
Pirates[5] (Also producer)
1994 Louise Bourgeois: No Trespassing

Executive producer

Accolades[edit]

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
1988 BAFTA TV Award Best Factual Series Arena TV series Nominated
1989 Won
1990 Nominated
1991 Nominated
1992 Nominated
1981 Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo Best Short Film The Errand Nominated
1995 BFI London Film Festival Audience Award Stonewall Won
1996 Frameline Film Festival Audience Award Won

Nigel Finch's death was commemorated in the ending title of the opera-film "Dido and Aeneas" (1995) directed by Peter Maniura (conducted by Richard Hickox. See the corresponding entry in Dido and Aeneas discography).

References[edit]

  1. ^ Also featured as an episode in the Screen Two series
  1. ^ a b Forde, John (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. London: Routledge. p. 217.
  2. ^ a b c Williams, Nigel (17 February 1995). "Obituary: Nigel Finch". The Independent. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  3. ^ "BBC Blogs - Arena Gazette - Tribute to Nigel Finch". BBC. 19 February 2015.
  4. ^ Levy, Emanuel (23 July 1996). "Riot Girls". The Advocate. Liberation Publications Inc.: 51–53.
  5. ^ "Arena: Radio Night - BBC Two England, 18 December 1993 - BBC Genome". BBC Genome. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  6. ^ Xtravaganza, Brooke; Christian, André; Corey, Dorian; Duprée, Paris (1 August 1991), Paris Is Burning, retrieved 28 April 2017

External links[edit]

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