Thomas George Hooper born 5 October 1972 is a BritishAustralian filmmaker Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short Painted Faces broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992 At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials After graduating he directed episodes of Quayside Byker Grove EastEnders and Cold Feet on British television In the 2000s Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate 2001 and Daniel Deronda 2002 as well as the 2003 revival of ITVs Prime Suspect series starring Helen Mirren Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust 2004 a British drama starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor before directing Helen Mirren again in the Company PicturesHBO Films historical drama Elizabeth I 2005 He continued working for HBO on the television film Longford 2006 and in John Adams 2008 a sevenpart serial on the life of the American president Hooper returned to features with The Damned United 2009 a factbased film about the English football manager Brian Clough played by Michael Sheen The following year saw the release of the historical drama The Kings Speech 2010 starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush which was met with critical acclaim Hoopers next film was Les Misérables 2012 which featured an allstar cast led by Hugh Jackman His 2015 film The Danish Girl was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film Recently Hooper has directed two episodes of His Dark Materials and a liveaction adaptation of the musical Cats for which he won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Worst Screenplay Hoopers work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Prime Suspect and John Adams won one for Elizabeth I and was nominated for the British Academy BAFTA TV Craft Award for Best Director for Longford The Kings Speech won multiple awards including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy Awards and a Best Director nomination from BAFTA Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hooper director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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