The 2019 British Academy Cymru Awards nominees have been announced earlier today. The Netflix production Apostle recieved five nominations, including Best Actor for Micheal Sheen, who won in the same category for The Gospel of Us.
See the nomations below:
ACTOR (sponsored by AUDI)
Anthony Hopkins – King Lear
Celyn Jones – Manhunt
Matthew Rhys – Death and Nightingales
Michael Sheen – Apostle
COSTUME DESIGN
Dawn Thomas-Mondo – Morfydd
Dinah Collin – Gwen
Jane Spicer – Apostle
MAKE UP AND HAIR (sponsored by Ken Picton)
Claire Pritchard-Jones – Keeping Faith / Un Bore Mercher
Claire Williams – Apostle
James Spinks – Morfydd
PRODUCTION DESIGN (sponsored by DRESD)
Arwel Wyn Jones – Doctor Who
Catrin Meredydd – Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
James North – A Discovery of Witches
Thomas Pearce – Apostle
SPECIAL AND VISUAL EFFECTS (sponsored by Bomper Studio)
Bait Studio – Apostle
Production Team – Doctor Who (The Doctor Falls)
Production Team – Final Score
The ceremony will take place on October 13th, Sunday, at St David’s Hall, Cardiff. This post will be updated once the winners are announced.
According to Deadline, Michael will play Chris Tarrant in a three-part drama about the quiz show cheating scandal. Read more:
EXCLUSIVE: Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen, The Good Fight’s Michael Sheen and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford are to star in Quiz, a drama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal, for AMC and ITV.
The Breaking Bad broadcaster and the British commercial network have commissioned the TV adaptation of Brexit: An Uncivil War writer James Graham’s play from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures with A Very English Scandal’s Stephen Frears to direct.
This comes over a year after Deadline revealed that the Sony-owned producer was turning the play into a television drama.
Quiz tells the story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major, who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It tells how Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.
Macfadyen, who is currently starring in the second season of HBO’s Succession, stars as Ingram; Sheen, who recently starred in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, plays Millionaire host Chris Tarrant; and Clifford, who played Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sister in hit comedy Fleabag stars as Diana Ingram.
Ler maisWatch part of an interview Michael gave to BBC Radio 5 Live, in which he says how he helped make 2019 football event to happen in Cardiff:
He said he felt he had little choice but to “put it all on the line” after funding fell short late on.
“We got into a bit of a state so I essentially put everything I have into this,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
The Welsh actor and activist said he “earned good money” and would work more to cover his costs.
“You either commit to this stuff or you don’t,” he declared to 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake on Tuesday.
Asked if he was “scaling back” his acting work, the Damned United star responded: “Well, I was.
Michael spoke to Entertainment Weekly about recordind The Secret Commonwealth, second book of Phillip Pullman’s Book of Dust Trilogy. Read more below:
Philip Pullman’s new Book of Dust book is almost here, and Michael Sheen is helping bring it to life.
The award-winning actor, currently starring on Amazon’s Good Omens, records the audiobook for The Secret Commonwealth, which publishes Oct. 3. It’s the second volume in Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy, an expansion of the author’s beloved His Dark Materials world, which is set to be adapted into an HBO series of the same name; it’ll unveil the next chapter in the life of indelible heroine Lyla.
“I am very much in the Pullman bubble — both exhilarated and exhausted,” Sheen says in an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of the recording process, which you can watch above. “I’m in control of it all, in a way. I love being able to play all the parts, because I’m essentially a control freak. There are parts I’d never be able to play on film or stage.”
The British Gentlemen’s Quartely magazine announced Michal as the host of this year’s Men Of The Year Awards on September 3rd, ten years after he won as Actor Of The Year. Read more below:
It’s almost that time of the year again, when the brightest stars across style, politics, entertainment and sport will be honoured at GQ’s annual Men Of The Year Awards, in association with Hugo Boss. Now in its 22nd year, the awards ceremony has become one of the most hotly anticipated events on the cultural calendar, attracting attendees such as The Prince Of Wales, John Legend, Donatella Versace and Sir Elton John.
With a guest list that always includes the biggest stars in the world, this year GQ has enlisted one such star to host, actor and activist Michael Sheen, who himself won Actor Of The Year at the awards in 2009. Sheen has pledged to donate his performance fee for the event to the Homeless World Cup: Cardiff 2019, a tournament that hopes to spread awareness about homelessness by inviting disadvantaged players to compete.
Ler maisMichael went to Twitter to annouce he is expecting a child with his girlfriend Anna Lundberg, a Sweden actress who lives in New York. He said:
Their baby on the way will be Michael’s second child, who has Lily, his 20-year-old daughter with his ex Kate Beckingsale.
Congratulations to Michael and Anna!
The 45th Annual Saturn Awards nominations were announced on July 15th. The Amazon Prime and BBC minisseries ‘Good Omens’ recieved three nods: Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action, & Fantasy Series, Best Supporting Actor in Streaming Presentation for Michael and Best Actor in Streaming Presentation for David Tennant.
Check out the nominees below:
Best Streaming Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Action/Thriller Television Series:
Black Mirror (Netflix)
The Expanse (Amazon)
Lost in Space (Netflix)
Good Omens (Amazon)
Russian Doll (Netflix)
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access) – WINNER
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Amazon)
Best Actor in Streaming Presentation:
Penn Badgley – You (Netflix)
Jon Bernthal – Marvel’s The Punisher (Netflix)
Charlie Cox – Marvel’s Daredevil (Netflix)
John Krasinski – Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Amazon)
Zac Efron – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Netflix)
David Tennant – Good Omens (Amazon)
Henry Thomas – The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix) – WINNER
Best Supporting Actor in Streaming Presentation:
Wilson Cruz – Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
Michiel Huisman – The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)
Timothy Hutton – The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)
Doug Jones – Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access) – WINNER
Ethan Peck – Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
Maxwell Jenkins – Lost in Space (Netflix)
Michael Sheen – Good Omens (Amazon)
The winners will be announced on September 13th, Friday, when this post will be updated, and the ceremony be available to watch via live-stream for the first time in the event’s history.
Source: Saturn Awards and Collider
