Steven Moffat
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 AwardNominated
- 2011Writer's AwardNominated
- 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 AwardWinner
- 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 AwardNominated
- 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 AwardNominated
- 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