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Marc Munden is an English film director best known for his work on Utopia, National Treasure and The Mark of Cain among others.

Marc Munden
Born
London, UK
OccupationDirector
Years active1991present
HonoursBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts

Royal Television Society Award International Emmy Award

Peabody Award

Early life


Munden was born in London, England. His father, Maxwell Munden, was a filmmaker who made films for the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) during World War 2.[1] One such film was Song of the People which was a musical about factory workers. Munden studied Maths and Philosophy at University College London.[2]


Career


The ending and credit sequence to episode 1 of National Treasure.

Munden began his career as an assistant to Mike Leigh, Derek Jarman, and Terence Davies before directing documentaries for television at the BBC.

His first film, Bermondsey Boy (1991), was a documentary examining some of the myths of masculinity, which won a Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and was nominated for the BFI Award for Innovation.

In 2007 Munden directed The Mark of Cain, picking up the BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama and earning Munden his first nomination for Best Director. He also received BAFTA nominations for The Devil's Whore (2009) and The Crimson Petal and the White (2011).


Utopia


Munden went on to direct the cult hit Utopia (2013–2014). The series received high praise for its striking visuals, but also some expressions of concern about its violence. Mark Monahan of The Daily Telegraph described it as “a dark, tantalisingly mysterious overture,”[3] while Sam Wollaston of The Guardian called it “a work of brilliant imagination,” “a 21st-century nightmare” that “looks beautiful,” but also wondered about the gratuitousness of its violence.[4] The series won an International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in 2014 and Munden received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director.


2016 - present: Awards success


In 2016 Munden directed National Treasure starring Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters, winning the BAFTA for Best Director and Best Miniseries.

In 2017 Munden teamed up with writer Tony Grisoni to make Crazy Diamond as part of the Channel 4/Amazon Video anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.[5]

In 2018 it was announced that Munden was to helm the film The Secret Garden for David Heyman & Studiocanal. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 book, the story centers on Mary Lennox, a troubled, sickly, 10-year-old orphan who is sent to live with an uncle in England when her parents die in a cholera outbreak.

In 2020, Munden reunited with Utopia creator Dennis Kelly, directing the first three episodes of Kelly's HBO miniseries The Third Day. [6] In 2021, he teamed with Jack Thorne for the Channel 4 drama Help, about a young care home worker struggling during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Help was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards winning two for Jodie Comer and Cathy Tyson.[7]


Filmography



Films


Director

Television

TV movies

TV series

Year Title Episodes
1991 From Wimps to Warriors
  • "Bermondsey Boy"
1993 Forty Minutes
  • "Girl Friends"
1995 Modern Times
1997 Touching Evil
  • "Killing With Kindness: Part 1"
  • "Killing With Kindness: Part 2"
1998 Vanity Fair
  • Episode 1.1
  • Episode 1.2
  • Episode 1.3
  • Episode 1.4
  • Episode 1.5
  • Episode 1.6
2000 The Secret World of Michael Fry (2000 TV series)
  • Episode 1.1
  • Episode 1.2
2003 Canterbury Tales
  • "The Knight's Tale"
2004 Conviction
  • Episode 1
  • Episode 2
  • Episode 3
2008 The Devil's Mistress
  • Episode 1.1
  • Episode 1.2
  • Episode 1.3
  • Episode 1.4
2011 The Crimson Petal and the White
  • Episode 1.1
  • Episode 1.2
  • Episode 1.3
  • Episode 1.4
2014 Black Sails
  • V.
  • VII.
2013-2014 Utopia
  • "Episode #1.1"
  • "Episode #1.2"
  • "Episode #1.3"
  • "Episode #2.1"
  • "Episode #2.2"
  • "Episode #2.3"
2015 Quantico
  • "Run"
2016 National Treasure
  • "Episode #1.1"
  • "Episode #1.2"
  • "Episode #1.3"
  • "Episode #1.4"
2017 Electric Dreams
  • "Crazy Diamond"
2020 The Third Day
  • "Friday - The Father"
  • "Saturday - The Son"
  • "Sunday - The Ghost"

References

  1. "Director's Now: Marc Munden". Director's Now. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  2. "Director's Now: Marc Munden". Director's Now. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  3. Mark Monahan. “Utopia, Channel 4, review”, The Telegraph, 15 Jan 2013.
  4. Sam Wollaston. “TV review: Utopia”, The Guardian, 16 Jan 2013.
  5. Robert Mitchell. "Steve Buscemi, Greg Kinnear Enter 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'". Variety.
  6. Tartaglione, Nancy (January 20, 2018). "Marc Munden To Helm 'The Secret Garden' For David Heyman & Studiocanal".
  7. "BAFTA Television 2022: Winners". BAFTA. Retrieved 24 May 2022.



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