Guy Hibbert

British screenwriter

Guy Hibbert
Born	Oxford, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, film producer
Spouse	Meifu Wang
Children	1

Guy Hibbert is a British screenwriter and playwright.

He has won four BAFTA TV awards, including Best Writer for the 2009 film Five Minutes of Heaven. This film was premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival, where Hibbert won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award.^[1]

Five Minutes of Heaven also won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, given for work promoting peace and reconciliation in Ireland.

His script for Eye In The Sky won Best Screenplay at Evening Standard British Film Awards 2017.

Hibbert started his writing career as a playwright. His play On The Edge was the winner of the John Whiting Award in 1985.

Other awards include the Mental Health Media Award in 1998 and in 2004 and the Joan Coleman Award in 2013 for his contribution to the understanding of mental health.

Hibbert lives in London with his third wife, poet and translator Meifu Wang. He has one daughter, Celeste Hibbert, and two grandchildren.

Filmography

Master of the Marionettes (1989) writer
Aimee (1991) – writer
Bad Girl (1992) – writer
Nice Town (1992) – writer
Saigon Baby (1995) – writer
Prime Suspect - "Scent of Darkness" (1997) – writer
No Child Of Mine (1997) – writer
Shot Through the Heart (1998) – writer
The Russian Bride (2001) - writer and executive producer
May 33rd (2004) – writer and executive producer^[2]
Omagh (2004) – co-writer with Paul Greengrass
Who Gets the Dog? (2007) – writer
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) – writer
Blood and Oil (2010) – writer^[3]
Complicit (2013) – writer and executive producer^[4]
One Child (2014) - writer and executive producer
Eye in the Sky (2015) – writer and executive producer
A United Kingdom (2016) - writer and executive producer

References

^ Turan, Kenneth (25 January 2009). "Nightmarish 'Push' a triple Sundance winner". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
^ Smith, David (29 February 2004). "TV drama focuses on ritual abuse". The Observer. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
^ Wollaston, Sam (30 March 2010). "Blood and Oil and Panorama: Passports to Kill | TV review". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
^ Hogan, Phil (23 February 2013). "Rewind TV: Complicit; Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline; Meet the Izzards – review". The Observer. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

External links

Guy Hibbert at IMDb
Guy Hibbert at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}

John Whiting Award

1967–1969

Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka for The Interpreters (shared) (1967)
Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967)
Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968)
Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)

1970–1979

Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970)
Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971)
Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972)
John Arden (1973)
David Rudkin (1974)
David Edgar for Destiny (1975)
David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976)
David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978)
Stephen Bill (1979)

1980–1989

David Pownall for Beef (1981)
Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982)
Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983)
Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984)
Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985)
Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986)
Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988)
Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)

1990–1999

Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990)
Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991)
Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992)
Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993)
Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994)
Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995)
Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996)
Ann Coburn for Get Up and Tie Your Fingers (1997)
Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)

2000–2009

David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000)
Zinnie Harris for Further than the Furthest Thing (2001)
Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002)
Rona Munro for Iron (2003)
Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004)
Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005)
James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006)
Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007)
Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008)
Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)