Name Matt Greenhalgh Role Screenwriter | Children Abby Greenhalgh | |
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Awards BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Nominations BAFTA Award for Best British Film Movies Nowhere Boy, Control, The Look of Love, Move On, Supermarket Girl Similar People Sam Taylor‑Johnson, Anton Corbijn, Julia Baird, Mimi Smith, Anne‑Marie Duff | ||
An interview with matt greenhalgh
Matt Greenhalgh is an English screenwriter from Manchester.
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Matt's film writing debut was a biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, the 2007 film Control, for which he was awarded the Carl Foreman BAFTA award at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the British Independent Film Award. Control was adapted from Deborah Curtis's Touching From a Distance. He wrote the film Nowhere Boy, about a young John Lennon, which was directed by Sam Taylor Wood and starred Aaron Johnson. The film was nominated for a BAFTA and a BIFA for Best Screenplay. He most recently wrote the screenplay for The Look of Love, a film about the famous British pornographer Paul Raymond, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan which premiered in Sundance Film Festival 2013 and Berlin Film Festival 2013.
Matt's latest film is Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell and Julie Walters. The film was produced by Barbara Broccoli and is scheduled to be released in November 2017.
For TV, Matt created and wrote all 21 episodes of the BBC television series Burn It, directing the last 3, and he wrote the Channel 4 television film Legless, which he also directed.
Additional awards include the Silver Hugo for Best Screenplay (for Control) at the Chicago International Film Festival and a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best New Writer for Clocking Off.
Matt is an alumnus of Loreto College - Moss Side, City Life Magazine, The Hacienda, Hippos Nightclub Middleton and Warrington Collegiate Institute.