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Award
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Category
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Recipient(s)
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Result
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British Academy Film Awards
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Best Film
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Karel Reisz
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Won
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Best British Film
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Won
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Best British Actor
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Albert Finney
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Nominated
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Best British Actress
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Rachel Roberts
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Won
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Best British Screenplay
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Alan Sillitoe
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Nominated
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Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
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Albert Finney
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Won
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Mar del Plata International Film Festival
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Grand Award for Best Feature Film
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Karel Reisz
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Won
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Best Actor
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Albert Finney
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Won
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Best Screenplay
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Allan Sillitoe
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Won
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FIPRESCI Award
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Karel Reisz
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Won
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National Board of Review
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Best Actor
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Albert Finney
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Won
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Top Foreign Films
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Won
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Sid Chaplin
Sid Chaplin OBE (20 September 1916 – 11 January 1986) was an English writer whose works (novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories) are mostly set in the North East England of the 1940s and 1950s.
Chaplin was born into a Durham mining family and worked in pits as a teenager. Between 1941 and 1953, he resided at Ferryhill, County Durham and worked as a miner at Dean and Chapter Colliery at Dean Bank. In 1946, he won the Atlantic Award for Literature for his collection of short stories, The Leaping Lad. After another stint as a miner, Chaplin began writing full-time for the National Coal Board magazine from 1950. He later wrote for The Guardian, including theatre reviews, essays of social observation and, from 1963, his own column Northern Accent.
Chaplin's literary career pre-dated the so-called angry young men genre and has been credited as an influence on the late 1950s/early 1960s "kitchen sink" social realism of writers such as Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow. His novels The Day of the Sardine (1961) and The Watchers and the Watched (1962) have been cited as classics of "working class existentialism" and were reprinted by Flambard Press in 2004.
In 1968, playwright Alan Plater based his play and musical production Close The Coalhouse Door on Chaplin's early writings, set to songs by Alex Glasgow. The musical was revived in 2012. In 1976, Chaplin contributed to the writing of the TV series When The Boat Comes In. The following year he was awarded an OBE for services to the arts in the North East.
Chaplin died in 1986. A posthumous anthology In Blackberry Time was published the following year. In 1997, the Chaplin family deposited the bulk of Sid Chaplin's papers at Newcastle University's Robinson Library, Special Collections.
Novels
My Fate Cries Out (1949)
The Thin Seam (1949, 1968)
The Big Room (1960)
The Day of the Sardine (1961, 2004)
The Watchers and the Watched (1962, 2004)
Sam in the Morning (1965)
The Mines of Alabaster (1971)
Short stories
The Leaping Lad (1946, 1970)
On Christmas Day in the Morning (1978)
The Bachelor Uncle and Other Stories (1980)
Misc
The Smell of Sunday Dinner (1971) [essays]
A Tree With Rosy Apples (1972) [essays]
In Blackberry Time (1987) [anthology]
Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature made a marked contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.
Born in Llanfihangel Crucorney, near Abergavenny, Wales, Williams was the son of a railway worker in a village where all of the railwaymen voted Labour, while the local small farmers mostly voted Liberal. It was not a Welsh-speaking area: he described it as "Anglicised in the 1840s". There was, nevertheless, a strong Welsh identity. "There is the joke that someone says his family came over with the Normans and we reply: 'Are you liking it here?'".
Williams attended King Henry VIII Grammar School in Abergavenny. His teenage years were overshadowed by the rise of Nazism and the threat of war. He was 14 when the Spanish Civil War broke out, and was conscious of what was happening through his membership of the local Left Book Club. He also mentions the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China, originally published in Britain by the Left Book Club. At this time, he was a supporter of the League of Nations, attending a League-organised youth conference in Geneva in 1937. On the way back, his group visited Paris and he went to the Soviet pavilion at the International Exhibition. There he bought a copy of The Communist Manifesto and read Karl Marx for the first time.
Williams attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. Along with Eric Hobsbawm, he was given the task of writing a Communist Party pamphlet about the Russo-Finnish War. He says in (Politics and Letters) that they "were given the job as people who could write quickly, from historical materials supplied for us. You were often in there writing about topics you did not know very much about, as a professional with words".[8] At the time, the British government was keen to support Finland in its war against the Soviet Union, while still being at war with Nazi Germany.
Williams received his MA from Cambridge in 1946 and then served as a tutor in adult education at the University of Oxford for several years. In 1946, he founded the review Politics and Letters, a journal which he edited with Clifford Collins and Wolf Mankowitz until 1948. Williams published Reading and Criticism in 1950. In 1951 he was recalled to the army as a reservist to fight in the Korean War. He refused to go, registering as a conscientious objector.
Inspired by T. S. Eliot's 1948 publication Notes towards the Definition of Culture, Williams began exploring the concept of culture. He first outlined his argument that the concept emerged with the Industrial Revolution in the essay "The Idea of Culture", which resulted in the widely successful book Culture and Society, published in 1958. This was followed in 1961 by The Long Revolution. Williams's writings were taken up by the New Left and received a wide readership. He was also well known as a regular book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian newspaper. His years in adult education were an important experience and Williams was always something of an outsider at Cambridge University. Asked to contribute to a book called My Cambridge, he began his essay by saying: "It was never my Cambridge. That was clear from the start."
Novels
Border Country (Reprinted ed.). London: Hogarth. 1988 [First published 1960]. ISBN 9780701208073.
Second Generation (Reprint ed.). London: Hogarth Press. 1988 [First published 1964]. ISBN 9780701208080.
The Volunteers (Reprinted ed.). London: Hogarth. 1985 [First published 1978]. ISBN 9780701210168.
The Fight for Manod (Reprinted ed.). London: Hogarth. 1988 [First published 1979]. ISBN 9780701208097.
Loyalties. London: Chatto & Windus. 1985. ISBN 9780701128432.
People of the Black Mountains 1: The beginning. London: Chatto & Windus. 1989. ISBN 9780701128456.
People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle. London: Chatto & Windus. 1990. ISBN 9780701135645.
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