John Goldschmidt

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John Goldschmidt
John Goldschmidt
Born
London, England
NationalityBritish, Austrian
Occupation(s)Director, Producer

John Goldschmidt (born 1943) is a British-Austrian

The Royal College of Art's Department of Film and Television, where he graduated in 1968 with a Master of Arts degree.[1]

Biography and film credits

Goldschmidt has made documentary and fiction films for

SRG SSR idée suisse, France 3, Rai 1, Bavaria Film, on the European continent, and HBO Films in the United States.[2][3][4]

His award winning films as producer/director have included Just one Kid and It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (writer

Nabokov's first novel C4 & ZDF
).

Goldschmidt's award winning films as producer include

Utz[9] ( Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker and Paul Scofield, script by Hugh Whitemore based on novel by Bruce Chatwin) for BBC Films & NDR), Deadly Voyage [10] starring Omar Epps, written by Stuart Urban (for HBO
Pictures & BBC Films).

Goldschmidt's television movies include directing Speech Day

Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943, WDR & BBC Television). His UK drama-documentaries as producer/director include Life for Christine[18] (writer Fay Weldon, Granada Television & ZDF) and The Other Spike (dramatisation of comedian Spike Milligan's nervous breakdown, Granada).[citation needed
]

Goldschmidt's early television documentaries include films for

Bernadette Devlin" (the youngest member of the British Parliament, Associated Television), Doing her own Thing (Helen Mirren, the youngest actress at the RSC, Associated Television),[19]The Games that Children play (LWT), The Mirror of Maigret (Georges Simenon, Associated Television), Our Live Experiment is worth more than 3,000 Textbooks[20] (Hornsey art students rebellion, Granada Television), The Unlucky Australians (the story of the Wave Hill walk-off in Australia, featuring Frank Hardy, Associated Television),[21] The Dead End Lads (unemployed teenagers dramatised their situation, Associated Television), Telling it like it is (Hugh Cudlipp on the state of the nation, Associated Television) and A Kind of Exile (folk singer Peggy Seeger, Associated Television). At this time, Goldschmidt was blacklisted from the BBC and his file was marked by a member of the BBC staff working for MI5.[22]

Goldschmidt advised the

Director's Guild of Great Britain's[26] report[27] to the British government on the UK tax credit for feature film production and has been a member of the board of Directors UK and of the Directors UK film committee.[citation needed
]

Goldschmidt directed Dough in London and Budapest in 2015, starring Jonathan Pryce. The film was released in the US in 2016, and won several awards.

Awards for film productions

  • The British Academy of Film and Television Award (BAFTA) - Director,
  • The Prix Italia RAI Prize - Music - Director/Writer,
  • The Golden Nymph - Monte Carlo - Director,
  • The Cine de Luca Award - Monte Carlo - Director,
  • Fehrnsehpeis der Oestereichischen Volksbildung - Director/Writer,
  • Silver Hugo - Chicago Film Festival - Director/Producer,
  • Royal Television Society Award - Director,
  • German Cinema Owner's Prize - Berlin Film Festival - Producer,
  • The Silver Bear—Berlin Film Festival - Producer,
  • Silver Nymph - Monte Carlo (twice) - Producer,
  • International Emmy Award Nomination—Drama Series - Director/Producer,
  • Prix Italia Prize—Nomination for Drama - Director/Producer,
  • CableAce Award (US) - Nomination – Producer.

References

  1. ^ John Goldschmidt RCA MA http://alumnet.rca.ac.uk/profile/JohnGoldschmidt[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ BFI Filmography [1] Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, [2]
  3. ^ NY Times Filmography
  4. ^ iMDB
  5. ^ 'Spend, Spend, Spend' "Play for Today · Episodes: 1977-84". Archived from the original on 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2010-09-27. British Television Drama
  6. ^ BAFTA award
  7. ^ 'A Song for Europe' [3] NY Times
  8. ^ 'Maschenka' [4] NY Times
  9. ^ 'Utz' [5], [6]
  10. ^ 'Deadly Voyage' [7] NY Times
  11. ^ 'Speech Day' "Play for Today · Episodes: 1970-76". Archived from the original on 2010-02-01. Retrieved 2010-09-27. British Television Drama
  12. ^ 'Vampires' "Play for Today · Episodes: 1977-84". Archived from the original on 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2010-09-27. British Television Drama
  13. ^ 'Captain Jack' "Captain Jack". Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2010-09-27. British Council, [8] The Guardian
  14. ^ 'Egon Schiele' [9] Austrian Lexicon
  15. ^ "Austrian Volksbildungspreis" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
  16. ISBN 3-7017-0304-3
  17. ^ Prix Italia 1978 Archived 2012-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ 'Life for Christine' [10] BFI
  19. ISBN 9781838597146
    .
  20. ISBN 978-0-7112-2874-0
  21. ^ "The Unlucky Australians - Documentary finally gets a TV premiere". TV Blackbox. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  22. ^ Leigh, David; Lashmar, Paul (18 August 1985). "The Blacklist in Room 105. Revealed: How MI5 vets BBC staff". The Observer. p. 9.
  23. ^ 'Stories Come First' - 'An IIC Report for the Commission of the European Communities, MEDIA Programme - Television Fiction in Europe' (John Goldschmidt Director TFE) - 1988
  24. ^ BAFTA members list
  25. ^ EFA members list
  26. ^ DGGB member's list
  27. ^ DGGB Report to UK Government on Film Tax Credit (by Goldschmidt and Don Boyd) [11] Screen Daily, 25 October 2005

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