Mark Shivas - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	24-April-1938
Place of Birth	Banstead (United Kingdom)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Profession	Film Producer, Television Producer
Mark Shivas was a British television producer, film producer and executive. Born in Banstead Surrey, Shivas was the son of a schoolmaster father who specialising in teaching English and a mother who was a librarian. He attended Whitgift School in Croydon and Merton College, Oxford where he read Law. While at University, Shivas wrote for the student magazine Oxford Opinions. After abandoning a legal career, the co-founder and assistant editor of the magazine Movie which used the French publication Cahiers du Cinema as its model, and contributed interviews and articles to The New York Times. He began his television career at Granada Television in 1964 as an assistant to the head of the story department and later worked on the company's Cinema series as a producer and presenter. In 1969 he switched networks and the field in which he worked by joining the BBC drama department, quickly becoming one of the corporation's most successful and prolific producers. He achieved particular success with the costume drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which gained three Emmy Award nominations in 1972, and Dennis Potter's Casanova. .

Awards by Mark Shivas

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mark Shivas.

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama	Talking Heads Playing Sandwiches
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama	Talking Heads Waiting For The Telegram

1987

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program

Honored for : The Storyteller

(Hans My Hedgehog)

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	The Storyteller Hans My Hedgehog

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial	The Price
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series	The Price

1985

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film	A Private Function

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial	Telford's Change
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series	Telford's Change

1977

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial	The Glittering Prizes
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series	The Glittering Prizes

1972

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series	The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Series	The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program - Drama or Comedy	The Six Wives of Henry VIII

1971

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production	The Six Wives of Henry VIII

1970

British Academy Television Special Award

Honored for : The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production	The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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