shane meadows and pawel pawlikowski

shane meadows was born december 26, 1972 in uttoxeter, staffordshire

he has directed films such as:
this is england
deadmans shoes
twenty four seven
somers town

most of his films seem to centre around gritty British life and social realism and he has performed in his own films

pawel pawlikowski was born in 1957 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, poland

he has directed films such as:
last resort
my summer of love
the woman in the fifth

reseach on the oscars

the big winners for best picture and leading actor and actress where:
The Artist
jean Dujardin for his performance in the artist
Meryl Streep for her performance in the iron lady

The Artist won the best picture award

Hugo won the cinematography award

Rango won the animated feature film award

This turned out as not a particularly successful night for British film as only one film that was recognised was British the Iron Lady and even that did not win a direct Oscar as the actress Meryl Streep won the best actress award through it but British films did get some good nominations through war horse and tinker tailor soldier spy.

the list of best picture nominations for the 2012 golden globes is almost identical to that of the oscars and the same with the best actor/actress being almost the same again over in the oscars

iron lady however was not nominated for a golden globe but was nominated for oscars