Awards & Winners

Mark Shivas

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