Robert Bolt

Birth Name:

Robert Oxton Bolt

Birth Place:

Sale, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Profession

Writer, Director, Actor

Received the award from the Queen’s Honours List for commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972
After graduating from Manchester Grammar School, he worked in an insurance office but later on earned a degree in history at Manchester University
During the time that he was schoolmaster at Millfield and Devon, he wrote a dozen radio plays that were later broadcasted
His final piece was the script "Political Animal," which later became a TV movie, and was based on the attempted assassination of President Ronald Regan and the process surrounding it
Most of his works are dramatic and place characters in tense situations in the face of a prevailing society
After a post-graduate year at Exeter University, he became schoolmaster at a village school in Devon and then transferred to Millfield
Was married four different times, two of those marriages being to the same woman, actress Sarah Miles

1963Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:Nominated
1963BAFTA Film Award - Best British Screenplay:Winner
1963Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award - Best British Dramatic Screenplay:Winner
1966Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:Winner
1966Golden Globe - Best Screenplay:Winner
1966NYFCC Award - Best Screenplay:Winner
1967Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:Winner
1967Golden Globe - Best Screenplay:Winner
1968BAFTA Film Award - Best British Screenplay:Winner
1968Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award - Best British Screenplay:Winner
1987BAFTA Film Award - Best Screenplay - Original:Nominated
1987Evening Standard British Film Award - Best Screenplay:Winner
1987Golden Globe - Best Screenplay - Motion Picture:Winner
1992Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Miniseries or a Special:Nominated

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