Sir David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter, and director. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards, a BAFTA TV Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award , in addition to nominations for three Tony Awards, two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Film Awards, and two Golden Globes.
For his work in film, he wrote the British mystery film Wetherby (1985) for which he won the Golden Bear from the Berlin International Film Festival. He also wrote the drama films Plenty (1985), Damage (1992), and The Secret Rapture (1993). He wrote the screenplay for Stephen Daldry's psychological period drama The Hours (2002) for which he won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and earned nominations for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award. He reunited with Daldry directing the romantic drama The Reader (2008), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for his Screenplay.
He wrote the screenplay for the Mick Jackson legal drama Denial for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. For television, he wrote Licking Hitler (1979) which won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Play. He wrote the BBC Two political thriller Page Eight (2012) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama.
For his theatrical works he has received eight Laurence Olivier Award nominations for his work on the West End. He won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play for Racing Demon in 1990 and Skylight in 1996. For his work on the Broadway stage he has received three Tony Award for Best Play nominations for Plenty in 1985, Racing Demon in 1996 and Skylight in 1997. He has also won numerous other theater accolades, including a Drama Desk Award, an Evening Standard Theatre Award, a London Theater Critics' Award, and three New York Drama Critics' Circle.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.2002 Best Adapted Screenplay The Hours 2008 The Reader
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards 2002 Best Adapted Screenplay The Hours 2008 The Reader 2016 Outstanding British Film Denial British Academy Television Awards 1979 Best Single Play Play for Today (episode:"Licking Hitler") 2012 Best Single Drama Page Eight
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.2002 Best Screenplay The Hours 2008 The Reader
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1978 Best New Play Plenty 1985 Best Comedy Play Pravda 1988 Best New Play The Secret Rapture 1990 Racing Demon 1996 Skylight 1998 Amy's View 1999 The Blue Room 2001 My Zinc Bed
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1983 Best Play Plenty 1996 Racing Demons 1997 Skylight
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref. Berlin International Film Festival 1985 Golden Bear Wetherby Drama Desk Award 1999 Outstanding One-Person Show Via Dolorosa Evening Standard Award 1995 Best Play Pravda London Theatre Critics' Award 1990 Best Play Racing Demon New York Drama Critics' Circle 1983 Best Foreign Play Plenty 1997 Best Foreign Play Skylight 1999 Special Citation Amy's View / The Blue Room / Via Dolorosa
Honorary awards Organizations Year Award Result Royal Society of Literature 1985 Elected Fellowship Queen Elizabeth II 1998 Made a Knight of the Order of the British Empire Jesus College, Cambridge 2001 Awarded Honorary Fellowship University of East Anglia 2010 Awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters PEN/Pinter Prize 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award
See also Works of David Hare List of British playwrights since 1950 List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain List of European Academy Award winners and nominees
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