Tom Hooper is an award-winning British director.
His latest film The Danish Girl won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Alicia Vikander) and was nominated for three other Oscars: Best Actor (Eddie Redmayne), Best Set Design and Best Costume Design. Alicia Vikander also won the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress and Eddie Redmayne was nominated for Best Actor. The Danish Girl was also nominated for three Golden Globes and five BAFTAs-Tom Hooper was nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film.

Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables won three Oscars – Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), Best Sound Mixing, and Best Make-up and Hair Design, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture. Les Miserables won the Golden Globe for Best Picture (comedy or musical), Best Actor (Hugh Jackman), and Best Supporting Actress. Hooper was also nominated for the Directors Guild of America’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement Award.

Tom Hooper ha vinto un Oscar® per la regia de “Il Discorso Del Re” (The King’s Speech). Il film del 2010 è stato candidato a 12 Oscar®, più di ogni altro film di quell’anno, e ha vinto anche la statuetta per Miglior Film, Miglior Attore (Colin Firth), e Miglior Sceneggiatura Originale. Il Discorso del Re ha vinto sette BAFTA Award, tra cui Miglior Film e Miglior Film Inglese. Per la sua regia, Tom Hooper ha vinto anche un Directors Guild of America Award. Il Discorso del Re ha vinto anche un People’s Choice Award al Festival Cinematografico di Toronto; Miglior Film Inglese ai British Independent Film Award; uno Spirit Award come Miglior Film Straniero; un Producers Guild of America Award per Produttore dell’Anno, ed un European Film Award per Miglior Film.

Tom Hooper directed The Damned United, a South Bank Show Award nominee for Best British Film. He has had unprecedented success at the Golden Globes with his work for HBO, winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture or Mini-Series for Television for three consecutive years. The actors and actresses in these productions-Elizabeth I, Longford, and John Adams, respectively-have also won Golden Globes for their performances three years in a row.

John Adams, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, won four Golden Globes and thirteen Emmys-the most Emmys ever awarded to a program in the same year. Longford, the HBO Films/Channel 4 telefilm written by Peter Morgan, and starring Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton won three Golden Globes, and was nominated for five Emmy Awards. The director won an Emmy Award for Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons. This HBO/Channel 4 miniseries won three Golden Globes and nine Emmys, including Best Miniseries.

Hooper was nominated for an Emmy Award for directing the ITV miniseries Prime Suspect 6. He directed Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiford in BAFTA-nominated Red Dust. For television, Hooper also directed Daniel Deronda, winner of Best Miniseries at the 2003 Banff TV Festival; Love in a Cold Climate for which Alan Bates was nominated for a BAFTA; and several episodes of ITV’s award-winning comedy/drama Cold Feet. Hooper also directed the one-hour special EastEnders, which won the BAFTA for Best Soap two years in a row.

At the age of 18 he wrote, directed and produced the short film entitled Painted Faces, which was screened at the London Film Festival, was released in theaters and then aired on Channel 4. At Oxford University he directed a number of theater productions starring Kate Beckinsale and Emily Mortimer, and directed his first television commercials.

Tom Hooper’s first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old, with a 16 mm Bolex Clockwork camera, using 30 1/2 feet of film.

Tom Hooper is one of the directors of the British Film Institute and heads the London coordinating committee for the Director’s Guild of America.