British director
Otto Bathurst
Bathurst in 2015
Born Otto Benjamin Charles Bathurst
[1] (1971-01-18 ) 18 January 1971 (age 53)
[1] Occupations Television director film director Children Three
[3]
Otto Benjamin Charles Bathurst (born 18 January 1971)
[1] is a British television and film director. In 2014, he won a
BAFTA for his work on BBC drama
Peaky Blinders .
[4]
[5] He was also previously BAFTA nominated for his work on BBC series
Criminal Justice and
Five Days .
[6]
Early life
Bathurst was born on 18 January 1971,
[1] the son of Elizabeth Mary (Thompson)
[7] and
Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe .
[8] He grew up in
Dudley and
Bridgnorth .
[9] He began to study engineering at university, but dropped out to move to London and work in film.
[9]
Family life
Bathurst lives in
Somerset, England . He has three children, the first, Eric, was born in 2006 and the second, Ursula, in 2008.
[10]
[11] The Bathurst family has resided in the town of
Bath, Somerset since 2013,
[3]
[12]
[11] Otto enjoys cooking and his favourite restaurant serves classic Indian cuisine.
[13]
The Bathursts are followers of the “socially dangerous”
Universal Medicine cult and dedicated to its leader, Serge Banhayon’s teachings.
[14]
[10]
[12]
[15] Based in
Frome , Somerset, the sect is reportedly popular with middle-class professionals and in 2019 it was ruled as a "socially harmful cult" by the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
The Times reported that Bathurst "is the best known of the group's British adherents" and first identified him as a follower.
[16]
[14]
Career
Bathurst began his career in editing and then worked on commercials, before moving into television.
[17] He has taught filmmaking at Oxford and London universities.
[15]
In 2009, Bathurst directed Margot , a biopic of
Margot Fonteyn starring
Anne-Marie Duff , which focused upon the relationship between Fonteyn and
Rudolf Nureyev .
[18]
In 2011, he directed "
The National Anthem ", the first episode of the anthology television series
Black Mirror .
[19]
He has also directed episodes of
Urban Gothic ,
Teachers , and
Hustle . In 2013, he was described by
Express & Star as "Britain's most exciting director".
[9]
In 2018, he made his feature film directorial debut with
Robin Hood .
[20] It starred
Jamie Dornan as
Will Scarlett ,
Jamie Foxx as
Little John ,
Tim Minchin as
Friar Tuck ,
Eve Hewson as
Maid Marian , and
Taron Egerton as
the eponymous hero .
[21] The film was universally panned
[22] and was estimated to have lost the studio US$83.7 million.
[23]
Filmography
Feature film
Television
References
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"Otto Bathurst" .
AlloCiné .
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"Otto Bathurst: Biography" . IMDb . 20 April 2020.
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"Komedia Bath: IMDb Script to Screen Award 2018" . TicketSource . 20 June 2018.
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"2014 Television Craft Director - Fiction" . British Academy Film Awards . 12 May 2014.
Archived from the original on 23 August 2019.
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"Peaky Blinders wins two prizes at BAFTA Craft Awards" .
Birmingham Mail . 28 April 2014.
Archived from the original on 12 April 2020.
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"BAFTA Awards Search" .
British Academy Film Awards . 21 October 2019.
Archived from the original on 19 November 2018.
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"Obituaries: Elizabeth Mary (Thompson) STRACHAN" . The Times . Legacy. 11 October 2016.
Archived from the original on 19 April 2020.
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"Run by a wealthy old Etonian in deepest Somerset" . Celebrity Best News . 16 March 2020.
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"I hate period TV shows - but Peaky Blinders was rock 'n' roll" .
Express & Star . MNA Media.
Archived from the original on 22 October 2019.
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b Bathurst, Lucinda (12 September 2016).
"The Birth of my Son, a Magnificent Teacher" . Women in Livingness . Universal Medicine.
Archived from the original on 20 April 2020.
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"The Team" . Creative Aquatic . Frome, Somerset: The Lighthouse. 20 October 2019.
Archived from the original on 20 April 2020.
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b Bathurst, Otto (October 2015).
"A True Man in the 21st Century" . The Bath Magazine . UK: MC Publishing Ltd. p. 12.
Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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Archived from the original on 23 April 2020.
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The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 21 October 2019.
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Archived from the original on 21 October 2019.
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IndieWire .
Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
^ PA (3 May 2018).
"Taron Egerton revealed as Robin Hood in first teaser" .
Belfast Telegraph .
Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
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"Robin Hood (2018)" . Rotten Tomatoes . 31 December 2019.
Archived from the original on 16 January 2020.
^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (8 April 2019).
"The Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2018: Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament" .
Deadline Hollywood .
Archived from the original on 14 April 2020.
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