Hugh Hudson

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Academy award nominated director, Hugh Hudson (born 25th August 1936 in London, England) as the eldest of affluent landowners, allowing him opportunities to attend Eton and Harvard, studying rarefied atmosphere. He then embarked on a rewarding career in advertising, producing, alongside fellow British director Ridley Scott, many prizewinning commercials. This allowed him entrance to the world of filmmaking, acting first as a second-unit director on Alan Parker's Midnight Express.

Catching the eye of producer David Putnam, Hudson was put in charge of what is his now regarded as his most accomplished and well-known film, Chariots of Fire (1981), a stunning rendition of two British track runners, one a devout Christian and the other an ambitious Jew, in the run up to the 1924 Olympic Games. The film is said to have revitalized the fading British film industry and it won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Hudson earned a nomination for Best Director. With his success behind him Hudson's later productions were largely disappointing, including the only partially successful Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), a troubled retelling of the jungle classic, and the notorious flop Revolution (1985), an incoherent, ludicrous mess depicting the American War of Independence, which somewhat crippled what could have been a prosperous career in Hollywood for Hudson. Instead his film output since has been scarce and uninspiring. He currently resides in Los Angeles, and is planning to direct an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's book Norwegian Wood in the near future

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