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Steven Moffat Biography
Birth Name:Steven Moffat
Birth Place:Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
Profession Writer, Producer, Actor, Script department
Fast Facts
- Won a Television Special Award at the 2012 BAFTAs for his outstanding creative writing contribution to television
- Was an English teacher early in his life, and he used his experiences working in a school to write "Chalk․"
- Started out as a playwright in the mid-1980s and got his start in television with the religious travelogue "Highway․"
- Quote: "[on Sherlock and John's relationship] "I think it's actually very, very faithful to the books․ It's just that oddity of a very close male friendship, which of course is very hard to write about because men don't talk about relationships ever․""
- Quote: "Sherlock Holmes is a human that longs to be a god․ The Doctor is a god that longs to be a human․"
- Quote: "The best thing in the world is․․․to be able to do what you love and get paid for doing it․ Everywhere I go somebody will come up and say․․․'I became an illustrator because of your programmes․' You have no idea what a thrill that is․"
- Has written for a number of television series featuring well-established characters including Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes but feels that he must treat them as his own in order to properly write about them
- Known for writing clever, dark episodes of "Doctor Who," and was the creator of the program's iconic Weeping Angels
- Was a devoted fan of the "Doctor Who" series as a child
- Based his sitcom "Coupling" off of the evolution of his relationship with producer Sue Vertue
Awards
- 1991BAFTA TV Award-Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama): winner
- 1992BAFTA TV Award-Best Children's Programme (Fiction): nominated
- 2006Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: winner
- 2006Rondo Statuette-Best TV Presentation: winner
- 2007Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: winner
- 2007Rondo Statuette-Best TV Presentation: winner
- 2007SFX Award-Best TV Episode: winner
- 2007Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Soap/Series (TV): winner
- 2007Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best TV Soap/Series: winner
- 2008BAFTA TV Award-Best Writer: winner
- 2008BAFTA Scotland Award-Best Writer - Film/Television: nominated
- 2008BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Screenwriter (Yr Awdur Gorau Ar Gyfer Y Sgrin): winner
- 2008Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: winner
- 2008Rondo Statuette-Best Television Presentation: winner
- 2008Nebula Award-Best Script: nominated
- 2009Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2010TV Quick Award-Best Family Drama: winner
- 2010Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best Television Drama Series: nominated
- 2011Saturn Award-Best Presentation on Television: nominated
- 2011BAFTA TV Award-Best Drama Series: winner
- 2011Banff Rockie Award-Best Continuing Series: winner
- 2011Broadcast Award-Best Drama Series or Serial: winner
- 2011Writer's Award-: nominated
- 2011Writer's Award-: nominated
- 2011Broadcasting Press Guild Award-Best Drama Series: nominated
- 2011Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2011Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: winner
- 2011National Television Award-Most Popular Drama: nominated
- 2011National Television Award-Most Popular Drama: nominated
- 2011Peabody Award-: winner
- 2011Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: nominated
- 2011Prix Europa-Best Episode of a TV Fiction Series or Serial: winner
- 2011Rondo Statuette-Best TV Presentation: nominated
- 2011RTS Television Award-Drama Series: winner
- 2011SFX Award-Best TV Show: winner
- 2011Satellite Award-Best Screenplay, Adapted: nominated
- 2011TV Quick Award-Best Family Drama: winner
- 2011TV Quick Award-Best New Drama: winner
- 2011TRIC Award-TV Drama Programme of the Year: nominated
- 2011Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best Television Drama Series: nominated
- 2011Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best Television Short-Form Drama: nominated
- 2012Annie-Writing in a Feature Production: nominated
- 2012BAFTA TV Award-Best Writer: winner
- 2012BAFTA Television Craft Award-Writer: winner
- 2012Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2012National Television Award-Most Popular Drama Series: nominated
- 2012OFTA Television Award-Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries: winner
- 2012Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: nominated
- 2012Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Miniseries or Movie: nominated
- 2012RTS Television Award-Writer - Drama: nominated
- 2012SFX Award-Best TV Show: winner
- 2012TV Quick Award-Best Drama Series: winner
- 2012TRIC Award-TV Crime Programme of the Year: nominated
- 2012Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best Short Form TV Drama: nominated
- 2013Writer's Award-: nominated
- 2013Broadcasting Press Guild Award-Best Drama Series/Serial: nominated
- 2013Edgar-Best Television Episode Teleplay: winner
- 2013Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2013Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2013Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2013PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television: nominated
- 2013RTS Television Award-Writer - Drama: winner
- 2014Bram Stoker Award-Screenplay: nominated
- 2014British Screenwriters' Award-Best British TV Drama Writing: nominated
- 2014Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2014Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2014OFTA Television Award-Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries: nominated
- 2014Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Television Movie: nominated
- 2014Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: winner
- 2014Bradbury Award-: nominated
- 2015BAFTA Scotland Award-Best Writer - Film/Television: nominated
- 2015British Screenwriters' Award-Lifetime Achievement Award: winner
- 2015British Screenwriters' Award-Best British TV Drama Writing: nominated
- 2015Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2015PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television: nominated
- 2016Dragon Award-Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series: nominated
- 2016Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2016Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Television Movie: winner
- 2016Rondo Statuette-Best Television Presentation: nominated
- 2017Dragon Award-Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series: nominated
- 2017Edgar-Best Episode in a TV Series: nominated
- 2017Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2017PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television: nominated
- 2017Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Television Movie: nominated
- 2017Rondo Statuette-Best TV Presentation: nominated
- 2018Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
- 2018PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television: nominated