This Is England director Shane Meadows was honoured with the outstanding contribution to British film award.

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There's a similar economy at work in "This Is England, " the fifth feature from Shane Meadows.

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Screenwriter Neil McKay's Fred West drama also beat This is England '88 writers Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne to the prize.

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In the past, it has hired quirky British directors such as Shane Meadows in a bid to banish the memory of Ronald McDonald.

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The TV advert's award-winning director Shane Meadows said he wanted to highlight the problem of emotional violence, including verbal insults and controlling behaviour such as monitoring text messages.

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Shane Meadows wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical drama, set in a British coastal town in the early eighties, about a sweet twelve-year-old, Sean (the uncanny Thomas Turgoose), whose father died fighting for England in the Falklands.

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