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Garth Jennings is an English director, screenwriter and actor. Films he has directed include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Son of Rambow , Sing , and Sing 2 . He co-founded the production company Hammer & Tongs.
In 1993, Garth Jennings co-founded the production company Hammer & Tongs alongside Dominic Leung and Nick Goldsmith. The production company was primarily responsible for directing and writing music videos. [1] [2] [3] Their music video for Radiohead's song "Lotus Flower" earned Jennings a nomination at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.
Garth Jennings directed a number of films including the 2005 science fiction comedy film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , [2] based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman.
Set over a summer during the dawn of Thatcher's Britain, Son of Rambow is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by First Blood . The film premiered on 22 January 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. [4] It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. [5] The film was also shown at the 51st BFI London Film Festival. Son of Rambow was released in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2008 and opened in limited release in the United States on 2 May 2008. [6]
In January 2014, it was announced that Garth Jennings would write and direct an animated comedy film for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment. [7] The resulting film, Sing , was released in December 2016. [8] He also provided the voice for Miss Crawly, an elderly iguana employed as an administrative assistant to Buster Moon. [9] A sequel, titled Sing 2 , was released on 22 December 2021.
Garth Jennings directed, wrote and co-produced a short film titled Madame that was released in 2019. This film takes place inside a grand Parisian apartment where lives an elegant elderly lady. And inside this lady lives a monster.
| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Yes | No |
| 2008 | Son of Rambow | Yes | Yes |
| 2016 | Sing | Yes | Yes |
| 2021 | Sing 2 | Yes | Yes |
Acting credits
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | 'Fun Dead' Zombie | |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Frankie Mouse | Voice role |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Crack Addict | |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Bean's Son | Voice role |
| 2013 | The World's End | Man in Pub No. 5 | |
| 2016 | Sing | Miss Crawly | Voice role |
| 2019 | The Secret Life of Pets 2 | Hamster | |
| 2021 | Sing 2 | Miss Crawly |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Madame | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Acting credits
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion | Fritz | |
| 2017 | Love at First Sight | Miss Crawly | Voice role |
| Year | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | "Hit" | The Wannadies |
| "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out" | Bentley Rhythm Ace | |
| "Help the Aged" | Pulp | |
| 1998 | "A Little Soul" | |
| "Cancer for the Cure" | Eels | |
| "Last Stop: This Town" | ||
| "Saint Joe on the School Bus" | Marcy Playground | |
| "The Flipside" | Moloko | |
| 1999 | "Coffee And TV" | Blur |
| "Pumping on Your Stereo" | Supergrass | |
| "Right Here, Right Now" | Fatboy Slim | |
| "Summertime Blues" | Guitar Wolf | |
| 2000 | "Theme from Gutbuster" | Bentley Rhythm Ace |
| "Disillusion" | Badly Drawn Boy | |
| 2001 | "Pissing in the Wind" | |
| "Imitation of Life" | R.E.M. | |
| 2002 | "Lost Cause" | Beck |
| 2005 | "Hell Yes" | |
| "Low C" | Supergrass | |
| 2007 | "Nude" | Radiohead |
| "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" | ||
| 2008 | "A-Punk" | Vampire Weekend |
| 2009 | "Cousins" | |
| 2011 | "Lotus Flower" | Radiohead |
| 2013 | "Ingenue" | Atoms For Peace |
| Year | Film | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Da Ali G Show | Royal Television Society UK | Best Graphic Design – Titles | Won |
| Supergrass: Pumping on Your Stereo | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Art Direction in a video | Nominated | |
| 2001 | R.E.M.: Imitation of Life | Best Direction in a video | Nominated | |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | The Artios Award – Casting Society of America | Best Featured Film Casting-Comedy | Nominated |
| 2006 | Golden Trailer Award | Most Original [10] | Won | |
| OFTA Film Awards | Best Music, Original Song | Nominated | ||
| Empire Awards UK | Best British Film | Nominated | ||
| Best Comedy | Nominated | |||
| Golden Trailer Awards | Best Voice Over | Nominated | ||
| 2008 | Son of Rambow | British Independent Film Awards | Best Director | Nominated |
| Best Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| Most Promising Newcomer for Bill Milner and Will Poulter | Nominated | |||
| Locarno International Film Festival | Audience Award | Won | ||
| Variety Piazza Grande Award | Nominated | |||
| National Board of Review USA | Top Independent Films | Won | ||
| 2009 | BAFTA Awards | Most Promising Newcomer | Nominated | |
| Empire Awards UK | Best Comedy | Won | ||
| Best British Film | Nominated | |||
| 2012 | Radiohead: Lotus Flower | Grammy Awards | Best Short Form Music Video | Nominated |
| 2017 | Sing [11] | Golden Globe Awards | Best Animated Feature Film | Nominated |
| Best Original Song "Faith" – Ryan Tedder, Stevie Wonder and Francis Farewell Starlite | Nominated | |||
| Annie Awards | Music in an Animated Feature Production for Joby Talbot | Nominated | ||
| Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Best Song for an Animated Film | Nominated | ||
| Best Soundtrack Album | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Music Supervision for Jojo Villanueva | Won | |||
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Animated Movie | Nominated | ||
| Favorite Voice from an animated movie for Reese Witherspoon | Nominated | |||
| Most wanted pet for Reese Witherspoon | Nominated | |||
| Favorite Soundtrack | Nominated | |||
| Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Male Vocal Performance in a feature film in a supporting role as the voice of "Miss Crawly" | Nominated | ||
| British Academy Children's Awards | Feature Film | Nominated | ||
| Saturn Awards | Best Animated Feature Film | Nominated | ||
| AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Movie for grownups who refuse to grow up | Nominated | ||
| 2019 | Madame | Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival | Best Short Live Action / Best Short Animation | Won |
| Seattle International Film Festival | Best Film | Nominated | ||
| HollyShorts Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| DC Shorts Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Thriller! Chiller! | Best Chill | Won | ||
| Screamfest Horror Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Santa Fe Independent Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Sapporo International Short Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Cambridge Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Aesthetica Short Film Festival | Best Thriller | Won | ||
| Foyle Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Druk International Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Shockfest Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Bahamas International Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated | ||
| Anchorage International Film Festival | Best Narrative Short | Won | ||
| Horror Bowl Movie Awards | Best Short | Won | ||
| London Short Film Festival | Official Selections | Nominated |
| Year | Title | Publishing house |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Deadly 7 | Pan Macmillan |
| 2017 | The Wildest Cowboy (illustrated by Sara Ogilvie) | Pan Macmillan |
| 2019 | The Good, The Bad and the Deadly 7 | Pan Macmillan |
| 2021 | The Curse of the Deadly 7 | Pan Macmillan |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text adventure game, and 2005 feature film.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy of five books" by Douglas Adams, with a sixth book written by Eoin Colfer. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name, centering on the adventures of the only man to survive the destruction of Earth; while roaming outer space, he comes to learn the truth behind Earth's existence. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.
Joby Talbot is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes, with a broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is known, to sometimes disparate audiences, for quite different works.
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Hammer & Tongs is the pseudonym of British director and producer duo, promo and film director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, as well as the name of their production company. Best known for their work on music videos for Blur and Supergrass, Hammer & Tongs have moved on to directing movies, their debut being the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Thanks for the success of his debut feature, Jennings raised £3.5 million to produce Son of Rambow.
Nick Goldsmith is a British film, TV and music video producer.
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Son of Rambow is a 2007 comedy film written and directed by Garth Jennings and inspired by First Blood. The film premiered on 22 January 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 51st BFI London Film Festival. Son of Rambow was released in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2008 and opened in limited release in the United States on 2 May 2008. Set over a summer during Thatcher's Britain, the film is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by First Blood.
Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor. He began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series. His first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years, and he gained wider recognition for his double role portraying the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher's biographical drama film The Social Network (2010), for which he won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Jules Sitruk is a French actor, most widely known for his roles in the 2002 Jugnot film Monsieur Batignole and the 2007 Hammer & Tongs film Son of Rambow.
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The Prix du Public UBS is a prize assigned by the audience attending the Locarno Film Festival in Piazza Grande.
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The Secret Life of Pets 2 is a 2019 American animated comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the sequel to the 2016 film The Secret Life of Pets, and the second feature film in the franchise of the same name. It was directed by Chris Renaud, co-directed by Jonathan del Val, produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, and written by Brian Lynch. The film features the voices of Patton Oswalt, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Lake Bell, Nick Kroll, Dana Carvey, Ellie Kemper, Renaud, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, and Harrison Ford.
Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo. The duo rose to prominence for their work on the 2004 short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, which earned the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. They went on to collaborate on the Academy Award-nominated film Half Nelson. Their film Sugar (2008) was honored as one of the Top 10 for 2009 at the American Film Institute Awards; and one of the Top Independent Films at the National Board of Review Awards 2009. They are best known for writing and directing Captain Marvel, which grossed over $1 billion and is one of the highest-grossing films of all time; which made Boden the first woman to direct a live-action movie that has grossed $1 billion.
Sing 2 is a 2021 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel to Sing (2016), it was written and directed by Garth Jennings, co-directed by Christophe Lourdelet, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. The story is set after the events of the previous film with Buster Moon and his group putting on a show in Redshore City while working to impress an entertainment mogul and enlist a reclusive rock star to perform with the group.
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