Terence Davies

Biography

Terence Davies was an English filmmaker. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and the collage film Of Time and the City (2008), as well as the literary adaptations The Neon Bible (1995), The House of Mirth (2000), The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and Sunset Song (2015). His final two feature films were centered on the lives of influential literary figures, Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016) and Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021). Davies was considered by numerous critics as one of the great British directors of his period.

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Awards & recognition

• ★Best Screenplay Award (San Sebastián Film Festival) · 2021
• ★British Film Institute Fellowship · 2007
• ☆European Film Academy Special Aspect Award — Best Music · 1988 · nominated
• ☆European Film Award — Best Film · 1988 · nominated
• ☆European Film Award — Best Director · 1988 · nominated