Awards & Winners

David Hare

Date of Birth 05-June-1947
Place of Birth St Leonards-on-Sea
(United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Sir David Hare
Profession Television Director, Playwright, Screenwriter, Film director, Theatre Director, Film Producer, Actor
Quotes
  • Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
  • The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
  • Smiles are the language of love.
  • The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
  • Children always turn to the light.
  • Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
  • Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
  • No one but a fool is always right.
  • Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
  • The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
  • Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
  • Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
  • Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
  • Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
  • To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
  • In oratory the will must predominate.
  • The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Sir David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Most notable for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink. On West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty, which he adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, Racing Demon, Skylight, and Amy's View. The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982-1983, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play.Other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War and The Vertical Hour. He wrote screenplays for the film Wetherby and the BBC drama Page Eight. As of 2013, Hare has received two Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He was also awarded several critics awards like a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and received the Golden Bear in 1985. He was knighted in 1998.

Awards by David Hare

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Hare.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama Page Eight

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
European Film Award for Best Film The Reader
London Film Critics Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year The Reader
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted The Reader
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture The Reader

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
USC Scripter Award The Reader
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Reader
Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Reader

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Stuff Happens

2003


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Honored for : The Hours

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Hours
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted The Hours
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture The Hours

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Hours

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play My Zinc Bed
BBC Award for Best New Play

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play My Zinc Bed
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1999


Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Honored for : Via Dolorosa
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Honored for : Via Dolorosa

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play The Blue Room
BBC Award for the Play of the Year
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance Via Dolorosa
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance Via Dolorosa
Outstanding Solo Performance

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Amy's View
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Skylight

1996


Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
Honored for : Skylight, Skylight
(BBC Award for the Play of the Year)

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Racing Demon
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Skylight","Skylight
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1990


Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
Honored for : Racing Demon
(BBC Award for the Play of the Year)

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Racing Demon
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play The Secret Rapture
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1985


Golden Bear
Honored for : Wetherby
(tie with The Woman And The Stranger)

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Plenty

1979


British Academy Television Award for Best Single Play
Honored for : Licking Hitler

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Play Licking Hitler

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Plenty
Play of the Year