Saul Dibb (born 18 August 1968)BBC - Movies - interview - Saul Dibb. is an English director and screenwriter. His father is the documentary maker Mike Dibb.
Born in London, England, Saul Dibb is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He is best known for co-writing and directing Bullet Boy, for which he was nominated for the Douglas Hickox Award,Saul Dibb – BIFA The Line of Beauty, and The Duchess, which won the Academy Award for Best Costume in 2009. In 2016, he directed the adaptation for BBC2 of Zadie Smith's bestselling novel NW into a 90-minute television film of the same name, starring Nikki Amuka-Bird and Phoebe Fox."Nikki Amuka-Bird and Phoebe Fox to star in Zadie Smith’s NW for BBC Two", BBC Media Centre, 10 June 2016.James Gill, "Luther and Hollow Crown actors set to star in BBC Zadie Smith drama NW", Radio Times, 10 June 2016. Dibb directed a film adaptation of R. C. Sherriff's 1928 play Journey's End, which was released in 2017. This has been dubbed "The best ever film about the Great War" by The Times.
Filmography Film Bullet Boy (2004) The Duchess (2008) Suite Française (2014) Journey's End (2017)
Television The Line of Beauty (2006) – 3 episodes NW (2016) Dublin Murders (2019) – 2 episodes The Salisbury Poisonings (2020) – 3 episodes The Sixth Comandment (2023) – 4 episodes
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