Occupation Filmmaker Name Anthony Wall | Role Filmmaker | |
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Movies The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector Books The Eden Mission, Intellectual Capital: Measuring the Immeasurable? Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series Similar Nigel Finch, Martin Scorsese, Nigel Sinclair, James Marsh, Vikram Jayanti | ||
Alma mater King's College, Cambridge | ||
Anthony Wall is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose lifelong contribution to cinema has been honoured with the Special Medallion of the Telluride film festival. He has for over 30 years been a director, then Series Editor & Executive Producer of the BBC's flagship arts documentary strand Arena, voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast (magazine) as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time.
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Directors and producers with whom he has worked on the strand include Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. The subjects of his films are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures in 20th and 21st centuries, from Slim Gaillard to Amy Winehouse, from Edward Said to Eric Hobsbawm and from Jean Genet to V S Naipaul.
Early life
Anthony Wall grew up in Hackney, East London. He attended a Catholic grammar school before studying English at King's College, Cambridge.
Awards
Wall has personally been awarded three Bafta awards, three Royal Television Society awards, an Emmy, the Prix Italia, and the Special Medallion of the Telluride Film Festival.