{"id":7645,"date":"2017-05-10T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:35:56","slug":"documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Exec Nick Fraser to Receive BAFTA Special Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary executive Nick Fraser, who is best known as the former commissioning editor of <em>Storyville<\/em>, is being honored with the Special Award at the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser served as commissioning editor of <em>Storyville<\/em> from 1999 to 2016, and during that time, films from\u00a0<em>Storyville<\/em>\u00a0won a total of five BAFTAs, four Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabody Awards and three International Emmys. Fraser is known internationally for documentaries such as the BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning <em>Man on Wire <\/em>(2008), BAFTA-nominated <em>Notes on Blindness<\/em> (2016) and <em>Project Nim <\/em>(2011), <em>India\u2019s Daughter<\/em> (2015), <em>Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer <\/em>(2013), <em>Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson <\/em>(2008) and Academy Award-winning <em>Taxi to the Dark Side<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked as series editor for the global documentary project <em>Why Democracy?<\/em> (2007) and as executive producer on <em>Why Poverty? <\/em>(2012). He will be a series editor for the upcoming <em>Why Slavery?<\/em> documentary as part of the ongoing project. In addition, Fraser has written five nonfiction books, is a contributing editor of <em>Harper\u2019s Magazine, New York<\/em> and frequent contributor to British newspaper <em>The Observer<\/em>. His recent pamphlet on the cultural importance of documentary filmmaking, <em>Why Documentaries Matter<\/em>, was published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is currently writing a book about the history of documentaries and is honorary president of the Sheffield Doc\/Fest. After leaving his position at <em>Storyville<\/em> in 2016<em>, <\/em>Fraser founded documentary streaming platform Yaddo, where he is currently the editor.<\/p>\n<p>The BAFTA ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 14, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Sue Perkins will host.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnendu Majumdar, the chair of BAFTA\u2019s television committee, said: \u201cI am absolutely thrilled that the Special Award this year will be going to one of the world&#8217;s key players in the field of documentary, Nick Fraser. Throughout his career, he has been dedicated to telling the stories which aren\u2019t often heard and bringing these to new audiences\u2014from his multi-award-winning thought-provoking commissions through\u00a0<em>Storyville<\/em>\u00a0to recently launching an innovative online platform for documentaries, Yaddo. It is no surprise that such ambition, creativity and originality will be recognized at the ceremony on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fraser added: \u201cTo be recognized by BAFTA for my work is such an honor, and I would like to thank the Academy for this award.\u00a0There is an increasing hunger for documentaries, particularly among young people, and it&#8217;s time that they are put front and center.\u00a0They have come into their own as an art form and they help make sense of the world around us.\u00a0I also want to thank those talented filmmakers that I have worked with along the way. We have made some incredible films together, and will definitely continue to make more in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary executive Nick Fraser, who is best known as the former commissioning editor of Storyville, is being honored with the Special Award at the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[282,1163,1201],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bafta","tag-bafta-special-award","tag-nick-fraser"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Documentary Exec Nick Fraser to Receive BAFTA Special Award - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Documentary Exec Nick Fraser to Receive BAFTA Special Award - TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Documentary executive Nick Fraser, who is best known as the former commissioning editor of Storyville, is being honored with the Special Award at the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-10T15:39:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-05-10T17:35:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/09\/Nick-Fraser.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/\",\"name\":\"Documentary Exec Nick Fraser to Receive BAFTA Special Award - TVEUROPE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-10T15:39:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-05-10T17:35:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2017\/05\/10\/documentary-exec-nick-fraser-to-receive-bafta-special-award\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Documentary Exec Nick Fraser to Receive BAFTA Special Award\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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