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BAFTA To Host Ethan Hawke Career Retrospective

19 November 2014
Ethan Hawke

‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Ethan Hawke’, sponsored by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, will take place on Thursday 18 December.

London, Wednesday 19 November:

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced that Ethan Hawke, the multi-award-winning actor and screenwriter, will discuss his craft and career at a special ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ event at BAFTA’s headquarters, 195 Piccadilly in London, on Thursday 18 December. The event is sponsored by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.

‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ is a long-running series of onstage interviews in which some of the film world’s leading talent share insights into the experiences that helped them hone and develop their craft. The series has hosted such figures as Ray Winstone, David Fincher, Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Kenneth Branagh and Helen Mirren.

Ethan Hawke first came to prominence in 1989, in the BAFTA Best Film winner Dead Poets Society. Since then, he has starred in more than forty films across a range of genres including Reality Bites, Gattaca, Great Expectations, Hamlet, Assault on Precinct 13, The Purge and Woman in the Fifth. In 2002, his role in Training Day, opposite Denzel Washington, earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Hawke’s longtime collaboration with filmmaker Richard Linklater has produced most notably the Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight trilogy. These were co-written by Hawke, Linklater and Julie Delpy, who secured Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay for the latter two installments. Hawke and Linklater’s most recent alliance, Boyhood, a cinematic first of its kind, began filming in 2002 and was shot intermittently over twelve years chronicling the life of a boy from age six to eighteen.

Hawke is also a film and theatre director, and a writer with two novels to his name. He made his feature film directorial debut with Chelsea Walls in 2001, followed in 2006 by The Hottest State, adapted from his novel of the same name, and this year saw the release of Hawke's first documentary, Seymour: An Introduction, which follows the life of pianist Seymour Bernstein.

Ethan Hawke can next be seen in time-travel thriller Predestination, with other upcoming features including: Cymbeline, a contemporary-set adaptation of the William Shakespeare play; Good Kill which screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival; Ten Thousand Saints, adapted from the critically-acclaimed novel by Eleanor Henderson; Regression alongside Emma Watson; and In a Valley of Violence co-starring John Travolta.

Public tickets for ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Ethan Hawke will go on sale at 13.00 on Friday 21 November. To book tickets, go to www.bafta.org/whats-on/. BAFTA members can book tickets from 09.30 on Wednesday 19 November.

Recordings of previous events in the series are available on BAFTA Guru, BAFTA’s online learning channel (www.bafta.org/guru).


Event Details

BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Ethan Hawke, sponsored by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management

Thursday 18 December 2014 at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London
18.30    Champagne Taittinger Reception
19.00    Event commences


Further Information

For further information, please contact Emma Micklewright at freuds

T: 020 3003 6353
E: [email protected]

For images, logos, accreditation, transcripts and more, visit www.bafta.org/press.

About BAFTA

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public. In addition to its Awards ceremonies, BAFTA has a year-round Learning & Events programme that offers unique access to some of the world’s most inspiring talent through workshops, masterclasses, lectures, scholarships and mentoring schemes, connecting with audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the UK, Los Angeles and New York. BAFTA relies on income from membership subscriptions, individual donations, trusts, foundations and corporate partnerships to support its ongoing outreach work. For further information, visit www.bafta.org and www.bafta.org/guru.


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