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• More than 100 NFTS graduates were credited on 2017’s BAFTA and Academy Awards nominated films.
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• NFTS students Khaled Gad (producer), Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara (director and co-writer) and Elena RuscombeKing (co-writer) won the British Short Animation BAFTA for A Love Story in 2017 (pictured below). It’s the fourth year in a row that the category has been won by NFTS students. A further 11 graduation films have gone on to win a BAFTA, either in the Short Film or Short Animation categories: Dreamland Express (in 1983); Careless Talk (1986); The Hill Farm (1989); The Candy Show (1990); A Grand Day Out (1990); Say Good-bye (1991); Balloon (1992); Until the River Runs Red (2011); Sleeping with the Fishes (2014); The Bigger Picture (2015); and Edmond (2016).
• The alum with the most BAFTA wins is animator Nick Park, who has eight BAFTAs to his name across all our Awards. • The school currently runs 18 MA courses, 14 Diplomas and four certificate courses, as well as various short courses. The most recent addition was an MA in Games Design and Development in 2012. • More than 43 per cent of its MA students are female and almost 17 per cent are from a black and mixed ethnic (BME) background. The school runs diversity schemes, including free directing workshops, to help increase the number of women and people from BME backgrounds working in screen directing. • NFTS alum and cinematographer Roger Deakins has been nominated for eight BAFTAs (not including this year’s nomination for Blade Runner 2049), winning three for The Man Who Wasn’t There (in 2002), No Country for Old Men (2008) and True Grit (2011). • Drowning Man, directed and produced by Directing Fiction graduate Mahdi Fleifel and edited by NFTS alum, Michael Aaglund, was one of just nine films selected from 4,843 submissions to compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or in 2017. • Films with NFTS graduate involvement grossed $11bn at the worldwide box office in 2016. • NFTS alum and filmmaker Lynne Ramsay was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 for her film You Were Never Really Here. It won two awards in total for Best Screenplay, for Ramsay, and Best Actor, for Joaquin Phoenix. Ramsay is a two-time BAFTA winner.
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• Together NFTS students and alumni have won an incredible 129 BAFTAs across the organisation’s numerous Awards. These include 20 wins at the Film Awards, 37 at the Television Awards, 19 at the Television Craft Awards, two at the Games Awards, 16 at the Children’s Awards and 21 at the BAFTA Cymru and BAFTA Scotland Awards. With thanks to the NFTS for their help in compiling these facts