Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners
Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, which he wrote and directed, and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners.
Suzannah Lipscomb (Chair of Costa Biography Award) announces the category winners of the five 2019 Costa Book Awards exclusively on Front Row and Stig talks live to the winner of the Best Biography.
Twenty years after the success of his debut film American Beauty, Sam Mendes has once again taken the top prize at the Golden Globes with his First World War epic 1917. He explains how his grandfather’s experience as a messenger on the Western Front inspired the film, which is filmed as if it’s one continuous shot.
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Sam Mendes on WW1 movie 1917
1917 is in UK cinemas from 10 January 2020, certificate 15.
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Main image above: George MacKay (Centre)Ìýin 1917
Image to the left (from Left): Dean-Charles Chapman, Sam Mendes and George Mackay on the ²õ±ð³ÙÌý
Images credit: Francois Duhamel/Universal Pictures
(c) 2020 Universal Pictures & Storyteller Distribution Co, Llc
Costa Book Awards 2019
Image: , Chair of the Biography PrizeÌýjudges.
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Jack Fairweather, Costa Biography Prize winner
by Jack Fairweather has won the 2019 Costa Biography Award.
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Image credit: Barney Jones
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