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Frank Cottrell-Boyce〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cottrell-Boyce )〕 (born 23 September 1959)〔"COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank", ''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009 (). Retrieved 2010-05-16.〕 is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. He has recently achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car'', a children's classic by Ian Fleming.〔 Cottrell-Boyce has won two major British awards for children's books, the 2004 Carnegie Medal for ''Millions'', which originated as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Prize for ''The Unforgotten Coat'', which was commissioned by a charity.〔〔 ==Life and career== Cottrell-Boyce was born in 1959 in St. Helens to an Irish Catholic family. He attended nearby St Bartholomew's Primary School and West Park secondary.〔 He was an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford and then completed a doctorate in English, also at Oxford University. Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he wrote criticism for the magazine ''Living Marxism''. As a result, there was supposedly always a copy of the magazine on sale in the newsagent set of long-running British soap ''Coronation Street'', while Cottrell Boyce was on the writing staff of that programme. After he met Michael Winterbottom, the two collaborated on ''Forget About Me''. Winterbottom made five further films based on screenplays written by Cottrell Boyce, ''Butterfly Kiss'', ''Welcome to Sarajevo'', ''The Claim'', ''24 Hour Party People'' and ''Code 46''. Their 2005 collaboration, ''A Cock and Bull Story'', is their last according to Cottrell-Boyce, who asked that his contribution be credited to Martin Hardy, a pseudonym. He told ''Variety'', "I just had to move on ... what better way to walk away than by giving Winterbottom a good script for free?"〔 〕 Other film directors Cottrell-Boyce has worked with include Danny Boyle (''Millions''), Alex Cox (''Revengers Tragedy''), Richard Laxton (''Grow Your Own'') and Anand Tucker (''Hilary and Jackie''). Cottrell-Boyce has been praised by, among others, Roger Ebert, as one of the few truly inventive modern-day screenwriters. He has spoken against the "three-act structure" and the "hero's journey" formulas, which are often regarded as axiomatic truths in the business. In addition to original scripts, Cottrell-Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction. His first novel ''Millions'' was based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name; it was published by Macmillan in 2004. Cottrell-Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising it as the year's best children's book published in the U.K.〔〔 His next novel ''Framed'', he made the shortlist for both the Carnegie〔 and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. He adapted it as a screenplay for a 2009 BBC television film. He made the Carnegie shortlist again for ''Cosmic'' (2008).〔 In 2011, he was commissioned to write a sequel to the Ian Fleming children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was published in October 2011 as ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again'' In addition to ''Coronation Street'', he wrote many episodes of the soap opera ''Brookside'', as well as its spin-off ''Damon and Debbie''. He wrote and staged his first original theatre production ''Proper Clever'' at the Liverpool Playhouse during the city's European Capital of Culture Year, in 2008. On 19 September 2011, he co-presented the Papal Visit at Hyde Park with TV personality Carol Vorderman. In June 2012, he assumed the position of Professor of Reading (the first such professorship) at Liverpool Hope University. Cottrell-Boyce was the writer〔〔 of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, whose storyline he based on Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''.〔 He collaborated with director Danny Boyle and other members of the creative team, including designer Mark Tildesley, in the development of the story and themes, and wrote "short documents that told the story of each segment" to provide context for choreographers, builders and other participants. He also wrote the brochure,〔〔 the stadium announcements〔 and the media guide for presenter Huw Edwards.〔〔 Three months later, Cottrell-Boyce won the 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for ''The Unforgotten Coat''.〔 That story of a crosscultural friendship was inspired by a Mongolian girl he met as a writer visiting her school, whose family was subsequently deported by the British immigration office. It was commissioned by Reader Organisation of Liverpool and 50,000 copies were given away.〔 The Guardian Prize is judged by a panel of British children's writers and recognises the year's best book by an author who has not yet won it. Interviewed by the sponsoring newspaper, Cottrell Boyce told ''The Guardian'' that "I'm definitely a children's writer() that's what I want to be. I'm always trying to get rid of everything else. ... The movies I'm doing are ones that have been on the blocks for a long time."〔 Cottrell-Boyce was made an Honorary Doctor of Literature at Edge Hill University on 16 July 2013. In September 2015, Cottrell Boyce will hold the keynote speech at the Children´s and Young Adult Program of the 15th international literature festival berlin.〔http://www.literaturfestival.com/cyal〕 He is also a patron of the Insight Film Festival,〔http://www.insightfestival.co.uk/people/〕 a biennial, interfaith festival held in Manchester, UK, to make positive contributions to understanding, respect and community cohesion.〔('Five questions with… John Forresst, ''Creative Times'', 6 March 2013 )〕 He is married and the father of seven children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Cottrell Boyce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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