Awards & Nominations
AWARDS
1978 Best Actress TV Times
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
1978 Most Outstanding Female Personality
Pye Color Television Award
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
1978 Broadcasting Guild Television Award
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
1978 The Radio Industries Club of Scotland
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE1983 Best Actress Evening Standard Award
THE RIVALS
1991 Best Actress B.A.F.T.A. Television Award
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
1995 Best Actress Evening Standard Award
THE WAY OF THE WORLD
1998 Best Actress Barclays Theatre Award
THE CHAIRS
1998 Best Performance in the West End
Time Out Award
THE CHAIRS
1998 Best Performance in a Play
Theatre and Management Awards
THE CHAIRS
Geraldine McEwan: A Career in Theatre, Film & Television
The Way of the World
Lady Wishfort
NOMINATIONS
**1976 Olivier Award Nomination: Actress of the Year in a Revival
On Approval
**1976 Olivier Award Nomination: Comedy Performance of the Year
Oh Coward
***** NOMINATED IN TWO CATEGORIES SAME YEAR1978 Finalist's Plaque in the International Emmy Awards in New York.: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1978 Olivier Award Nomination: Best Comedy Performance of the Year Look After Lulu
1980 Olivier Award Nomination: Best Actress for
The Browning Version/Harlequinade
1995 Olivier Award Nomination: Best Supporting Actress
The Way of the World
1998 Tony Award Nomination: Best Actress
The Chairs
Nominated for Best Director: Waiting for Sir Larry:
The play won the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival Greg Cruttwell, writer (Read more about this writer/director/producer)
The Chairs: with Richard Briers
Photos
Greg Cruttwell
Trained as an actor at L.A.M.D.A.
Spent ten years working in the theatre with many different companies before taking a leading role in his first feature film, Mike Leigh's NAKED. Subsequently had leading roles in, TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY and GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE.
Wrote and starred in, WAITING FOR SIR LARRY, a play about a terrorist desperate for an Equity card, which was presented at the Edinburgh Festival where it won a Fringe First Award.
Wrote and directed his first feature film, CHUNKY MONKEY, starring David Threlfall and Alison Steadman. ("Deadpan, deranged, and, like the ice cream after which it is named, an instant cult classic" Anton Bitel - movie-gazette.com) The film had a sell out world premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival in November 2004 and packed houses on its release at the Everyman Cinema in London. It has since been and still is showing at venues throughout the UK and will be in competition at the Rome Independent Film Festival in April 2005.
Also wrote and directed award winning short film, FINGERS X'D, about two football supporters contemplating a sex change as a thank you to the club they follow.
Together with, Phil Hunt, his partner at UK based production company Headgear Films, he has just produced a Mexican/UK political thriller, RABBIT ON THE MOON (CONEJO EN LA LUNA). The film, represented for international sales by Capitol Films, opened successfully in Mexico in October 2004 where it has been nominated for 3 Ariels - Mexican Academy Award. The film had its world premiere at AFI in Los Angeles in November 2004 and its European Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2005.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Receiving the Radio Industries Club of Scotland Personality of the Year Award 1978: for the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Scottish Television Programme Review 1978:
Drama
The highlight of the year was 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' shown on the full TV network in the first months of 1978. It was both a critical and popular success, the words of the critic of the 'Daily Express' perhaps summing it up best, 'I do not hesitate to predict that Miss Brodie is going to have the viewing millions grovelling at her feet'.
Since then, Geraldine McEwan has collected awards for her performances from the
Pye/Screen Writers' Guild Scheme,
the 'TV Times',
the Radio Industries Club of Scotland
and the Guild of Broadcasting Journalists
and the series earned a Finalist's Plaque in the International Emmy Awards in New York.
In the last few weeks we have learned that it has been bought by the Public Broadcasting Service in the US.
