The British Academy Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles is a discontinued British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) until 1984.
21-694: James William Fox (born William Fox ; 19 May 1939) is an English actor. He won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for The Servant (1963). Other credits include The Miniver Story (1950), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), King Rat (1965), The Chase (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Isadora (1968), and Performance (1970). He quit acting for several years to be an evangelical Christian . On his return to acting in
42-713: A camp sensibility lay behind the successful Carry On films , while in America subversive independent film-maker John Waters made camp films for college audiences with his drag queen friends that eventually found a mainstream audience. The success of the American television show Saturday Night Live drove decades of cinema with racier content allowed on television drawing on the program's stars and characters, with bigger successes including Wayne's World , Mean Girls , Ghostbusters and Animal House . Parody and joke-based films continue to find audiences. While comedic films are among
63-418: A happy ending , with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre . Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies , which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music
84-467: A daughter, Lydia. Piper died at their home on 19 April 2020. Through his daughter Lydia, his son-in-law is actor Richard Ayoade . His former daughter-in-law is actress Billie Piper , who was married to his son Laurence from 2007 to 2016. BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles The category has had several name changes throughout its history, as detailed on the recipient's list below: Note: The BAFTA site differs on what
105-566: Is actor Edward Fox and his younger brother is film producer Robert Fox . His maternal grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale . Fox first appeared on film as eleven-year-old Toby Miniver in The Miniver Story in 1950. His early screen appearances, both in film and television, were made under his birth name, William Fox. He appeared in the film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). Fox's father purportedly attempted to forbid this, fearing his son would lose his job in
126-817: The BBC play by Alan Bennett , A Question of Attribution (1992). He also portrayed the character of Lord Holmes in Patriot Games (1992), as well as Colonel Ferguson in Farewell to the King (1989) and the Nazi-sympathising aristocrat Lord Darlington in The Remains of the Day (1993). He has since appeared in the 2000 film Sexy Beast , the 2001 adaptation of The Lost World as Prof. Leo Summerlee, Agatha Christie's Poirot – Death on
147-592: The 1980s, he starred in Runners (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Comrades (1986), A Question of Attribution (1992), Patriot Games (1992), Farewell to the King (1993), Heart of Darkness (1993), The Remains of the Day (1993), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Anna Karenina (1997), and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999). From 2000 onwards he appeared in Sexy Beast (2000), 2001 adaptation of The Lost World (2001), Agatha Christie's Poirot – Death on
168-654: The Nile (2004) as Colonel Race , and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), playing Mr. Salt , Veruca Salt 's father. He appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Shada , and in 2007, he guest-starred in the British television crime series Waking the Dead . He also appeared opposite his son Laurence Fox in "Allegory of Love", an episode in the third series of Lewis . He
189-729: The Nile (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Waking the Dead (2007), Lewis (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Cleanskin (2010), The Double (2013), W.E. (2010), Utopia (2013), The Great Train Robbery (2013), Death in Paradise (2015), and Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018). Fox was born on 19 May 1939 in London , the second son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. His elder brother
210-608: The bank; nevertheless, Fox took the part. In 1964, Fox won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for The Servant (1963), working alongside Dirk Bogarde , Sarah Miles , and Wendy Craig . On 16 June 1965, Ken Annakin 's period aviation film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines was released. In this British period comedy film , Fox is featured among an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman , Sarah Miles , Robert Morley , Terry-Thomas , Red Skelton , Benny Hill , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi . Some of
231-516: The category title is for the 1980s, with the actors own pages on the site using the titles given above, while other pages use Most Promising Newcomer to Film. A similar award honoring new acting talent, the Rising Star Award , was introduced in 2006. Even though its nominees are selected by the BAFTA juries, the eventual Rising Star winner is decided by public votes via text, internet, or phone. In
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273-515: The film industry due to their popularity. In The Screenwriters Taxonomy (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story, and therefore, the labels "drama" and "comedy" are too broad to be considered a genre. Instead, his taxonomy argues that comedy is a type of film that contains at least a dozen different sub-types. A number of hybrid genres have emerged, such as action comedy and romantic comedy . The first comedy film
294-498: The following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year. Comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor . These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have
315-743: The most popular with audiences at the box office, there is an 'historical bias against a close and serious consideration of comedy' when it comes to critical reception and conferring of awards, such as at the Academy Awards . Film writer Cailian Savage observes "Comedies have won Oscars, although they’ve usually been comedy-dramas, involved very depressing scenes, or appealed to stone-hearted drama lovers in some other way, such as Shakespeare in Love ." According to Williams' taxonomy , all film descriptions should contain their type (comedy or drama) combined with one (or more) sub-genres. This combination does not create
336-477: The other films he acted in during this time are King Rat (1965), The Chase (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Isadora (1968), and Performance (1970). After finishing work on Performance (released 1970, but shot in 1968), Fox suspended his acting career. The film, which starred Fox and Mick Jagger , was deemed so outrageous (at the time) that critics at a preview screening walked out, with one film executive's wife reportedly throwing up in
357-508: The use of comedy film to make social statements by building their narratives around sensitive cultural, political or social issues. Such films include Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and The Graduate . In America, the sexual revolution drove an appetite for comedies that celebrated and parodied changing social morals, including Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Fanny Hill . In Britain,
378-414: Was L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), directed and produced by film pioneer Louis Lumière . Less than a minute long, it shows a boy playing a prank on a gardener. The most notable comedy actors of the silent film era (1895–1927) were Charlie Chaplin , Harold Lloyd , and Buster Keaton , though they were able to make the transition into “ talkies ” after the 1920s. Film-makers in the 1960s skillfully employed
399-655: Was No Longer Alone (1976), the story of Joan Winmill Brown, a suicidal woman who was led to faith in Jesus Christ by Ruth Bell Graham . After an absence from acting of several years, in 1981 Fox appeared on television in the Play for Today "Country" by Trevor Griffiths , a comedy drama set against the 1945 UK parliamentary elections. On film he starred in Stephen Poliakoff 's Runners (1983), A Passage to India (1984), and Comrades (1986). He played Anthony Blunt in
420-626: Was part of the cast of Sherlock Holmes (2009), as Sir Thomas, leading member of a freemason -like secret society. In 2010, he filmed Cleanskin , a terrorist thriller directed by Hadi Hajaig, and in 2011 he played King George V in the Madonna written and directed film W.E. In 2013, he played a lead role alongside Natalie Dormer , in the movie A Long Way From Home . Fox married Mary Elizabeth Piper in September 1973, with whom he has five children: four sons, Robin, Thomas, Laurence , Jack , and
441-417: Was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue . Comedy, compared with other film genres , places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to
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