1973Nominee
Best Director
King Carnival
Horace Ové
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Trinidad
January 1, 1939
Biography
Born in Trinidad in 1939, Sir Horace Ové, CBE was a British director, writer and artist who emerged in the late '60s and throughout the '70s to become one of the leading UK based black independent film-makers. A fact notable for his Guinness World Record for being the first black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure (1975). He was knighted in 2022 and passed away in 2023 following a battle with Alzheimer's.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1978Nominee
Best Director
Skateboard Kings
1968Nominee
Best Director
Baldwin's Nigger
Career Highlights
1976Highlight
Best Writing
Pressure
1979Highlight
Best Director
A Hole in Babylon
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Pressure
James Baldwin Abroad