Andrea Arnold

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Andrea Arnold at the Cannes Film Festival 2012

Andrea Arnold , OBE (born April 5, 1961 in Dartford , Kent , England ) is a British film director , actress and Oscar winner. She had her first major success as a filmmaker with the short film Wespen ( Wasp ), which won an award at the 2005 Academy Awards . At the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 , 2009 and 2016 , she received invitations to compete for the Palme d'Or for Red Road , Fish Tank and American Honey .

Life

Early television work

Andrea Arnold first gained popularity as an actress and presenter for the children's program No.73 (later 7T3 ), a show for the ITV Saturday morning program . The program was a sketch show similar to The Kumars at No. 42 ( BBC ) and was supplemented by cartoons and panel discussions.

After 7T3 was canceled in 1988, Andrea Arnold worked for two more years as part of the team of presenters for the children's program Motormouth , which was broadcast on the same slot. In 1990 she wrote for A Beetle Called Derek , an environmental awareness show for young people, which she also hosted.

As a director

Andrea Arnold left her work as a presenter of children's programs after winning the Academy Awards for her short film Wasps and has since devoted herself entirely to working as a film director.

With Red Road 2006, the first film of the so-called appeared Advance Party film series, a competition on an idea by Lars von Trier and producer Gillian Berrie, Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen was announced. Three prospective directors each had to make a film under predetermined conditions in terms of budget, location and casting. The theme of Red Road , Arnold's first full-length film, is revenge. It tells the story of a security guard who discovers a person from their past during video surveillance. The film was invited to the competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival and won the Jury Prize there . Arnold himself was u. a. at the BAFTA Awards in 2007 with the Carl Foreman Award honored as most promising newcomer.

She was able to build on the success of the film in 2009 with the drama Fish Tank , which won the British Academy Film Award for best British film in 2010 . It tells the story of a 15-year-old high school dropout (played by amateur actress Katie Jarvis ) who falls in love with her mother's new boyfriend in a run-down workers' estate in eastern England. In 2011 Arnold filmed Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontës Sturmhöhe, the eponymous novel by Emily Brontë . At the side of Kaya Scodelario (Cathy) James Howson played as the first black Heathcliff actor in a film version of the material. The film was shown in the competition program of the 68th Venice International Film Festival .

In 2012 Arnold was appointed to the competition jury at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival . In 2016 she received her third invitation to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival for American Honey and won the jury award for the third time.

Filmography

  • 1998: Milk (short film)
  • 2001: Dog (short film)
  • 2003: Wasps ( Wasp , short film)
  • 2006: Red Road
  • 2009: Fish Tank
  • 2011: Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontës Sturmhöhe (Wuthering Heights)
  • 2016: American Honey
  • 2015–2017: Transparent (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2017: I Love Dick (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2019: Big Little Lies (TV series, seven episodes)

Awards selection

Oscar

  • 2005 : Oscar in the Best Short Film category for Wasp

BAFTA Award (Scotland)

  • 2005: Best Director and Best Screenplay for Red Road

British Academy Film Award

British Independent Film Awards

  • 2006 : Douglas Hickox Award for Red Road
  • 2009 : Best Director for Fish Tank
  • 2009 : Nomination for Best Screenplay for Fish Tank
  • 2016 : Best Director for American Honey
  • 2016 : Nomination for Best Screenplay for American Honey

European film award

  • 2009 : Nomination for Best Director for Fish Tank

Cannes Film Festival

  • 2006 : Prize of the jury and nominated for the Palme d'Or for Red Road
  • 2009 : Jury Prize and Nominated for the Palme d'Or for Fish Tank
  • 2016 : Prize of the jury and nominated for the Palme d'Or for American Honey

Web links

Commons : Andrea Arnold  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ Ben Child: James Howson to be first black actor to play Heathcliff in film . from guardian.co.uk, November 23, 2010 (accessed July 31, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dartford , Kent , England , United Kingdom