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	New BAFTA chair shares his vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The heat is on Duncan Kenworthy, the U.K. independent producer who took up the reins as BAFTA chairman on July 1.
		Kenworthy: (BAFTA) should be encouraging the next generation by encouraging people to come to the academy for debates, lectures and workshops because we want our membership to be a vibrant one.
		Kenworthy: While the film awards have shot ahead of expectations, the television awards have continued to grow in stature and become better and better.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/international/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000563317 (1137 words)

	NOTTING HILL [Filmmakers] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		DUNCAN KENWORTHY (Producer) studied at Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania before moving to New York where he worked for the Children’s Television Workshop, producers of Sesame Street.
		In 1997 Kenworthy formed DNA films, a partnership with Andrew Macdonald which was awarded a film production franchise by the Arts Council of England to make sixteen films over six years.
		Kenworthy is a member of the government’s recent Film Policy Review Group whose report on the film industry, "A Bigger Picture," was published in March 1998.
	www.notting-hill.com /filmmakers/duncan.html (409 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film Council accused of cronyism
		But one of the film-makers involved, Duncan Kenworthy, producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, dismissed the allegations as "a non-story".
		Duncan Kenworthy told BBC News Online: "As Mr Yeo himself says, he is not suggesting any impropriety.
		Mr Kenworthy said the Film Council's task was not only to give grants to films but also to act as a strategic body for the development of the industry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1831246.stm (375 words)

	Montreal Film Festival 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		UK producer Duncan Kenworthy, regarded as the Midas of the British film industry after making $250 million with Four Weddings and a Funeral, this week refused to even talk about reports that Julia Roberts may be joining Hugh Grant in the Four Weddings follow-up, provisionally entitled The Notting Hill Project.
		Kenworthy will be in Montreal for the competition screening of his new film, Lawn Dogs.
		Meanwhile, Kenworthy is busy negotiating with the British Arts Council over the terms of the lottery franchise he and his new business colleague Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) won in the spring.
	www.filmfestivals.com /mtreal97/mnew10.htm (329 words)

	Parole Officer, The : Production Information
		Meanwhile, Kenworthy had asked the award-winning director John Duigan to consider the project.
		Kenworthy knew from the outset that he did not want to stuff the film with celebrity cameos or familiar faces from Coogan's television incarnations.
		Producer Duncan Kenworthy has high hopes for THE PAROLE OFFICER, believing that it has the potential to work even in countries where Steve Coogan is unknown.
	www.cinema.com /articles/551/parole-officer-the-production-information.phtml (2026 words)

	Love Actually - Production Notes
		Curtis is re-teamed with producers Duncan Kenworthy and Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner—the filmmakers responsible for some of the most popular looks at modern love in all its guises, including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary.
		Kenworthy remembers, “Richard usually gets the idea for his next film while he’s hanging around the set of his last one, so it was when we were working on Notting Hill that he was dreaming up Love Actually.
		Kenworthy admits that while Curtis had specific actors in mind when penning selected parts, everyone was required to audition for the filmmakers.
	www.firth.com /love_notes.html (1783 words)

	creativematch: UK Film Company Joins Forces with US Distributor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		DNA Films was founded in 1997 by two of Britain's most successful producers, Duncan Kenworthy (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL) and Andrew Macdonald (TRAINSPOTTING, THE BEACH).
		Duncan Kenworthy, who has spent the last 18 months producing Richard Curtis's directorial debut LOVE ACTUALLY for Working Title in association with DNA Films, will step down from his co-chairman role but continue as a non-executive director.
		Duncan Kenworthy of DNA Films says, "Global distribution and guaranteed financing for a slate of films are the twin keys to the growth of the British film industry.
	www.creativematch.co.uk /viewnews?88654 (821 words)

	Choice Brits \| The Script Factory
		One of the UK’s premier film producers, Duncan Kenworthy received a first-class degree from Christ's College, Cambridge, before heading to the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.
		Duncan’s feature film career has had enormous impact, both commercially (responsible for several of the UK’s highest box office grossing pictures of all time) and as a representative of the UK’s industry — visible, and supportive — a true creative producer.
		Duncan began his hugely fruitful relationship with both Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant with Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994, a partnership he interrupted to produce Lawn Dogs in 1997, John Duigan’s Sam Rockwell starrer.
	choicebrits.scriptfactory.co.uk /go/Biog_9.html (342 words)

	Movie-Vault.com: Print Review
		Produced by Duncan Kenworthy, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner.
		Teamed with producer Duncan Kenworthy and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’ Diary), Love Actually is Curtis’ directorial debut.
		It combines all the best elements of his comic style with enough emotional depth in his characters and situations to avoid sentimentality.
	www.movie-vault.com /archive/printreview.pl?action=moviereview&movieid=QbKQUsKbRjgjJblk (957 words)

	BBC - Nottingham Films - Interview with Love Actually's Bill Nighy
		Nighy and Love Actually producer Duncan Kenworthy have been doing the rounds promoting the film and they caught up with our own Nigel Bell.
		Duncan: Richard was very candid and said it might not work.
		Duncan: We've shown the film to the press in the US and the reaction has been very positive.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/films/2003/11/bill_nighy_interview.shtml (943 words)

	NOTTING HILL [Behind-the-Scenes]
		Of course people will have expectations and we hope to live up to those expectations, but we are certainly not, as we go about making the film, comparing it in any way.
		Kenworthy says, "Hugh is one of the only actors who can speak Richard’s lines perfectly, like an expression of Richard’s inner rhythms."
		Summing up the overall appeal of Notting Hill, Kenworthy remarks, "I think one of the great things about Richard’s writing is that it is drawn from a positive view of life.
	www.notting-hill.com /behindscenes/production.html (864 words)

	Fraggle Rock DVD Petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This concept grew out of Duncan Kenworthy's experience in helping adapt Sesame Street to the requirements of foreign markets.
		Needless to say, Jim did not delude himself into thinking he could create a television show that could actually prevent wars, But he did sincerely believe that he could produce a program that would help sow the deeds of pacifism in the minds of the worlds children.
		A couple of meetings in London led to a core group Jim, Duncan, Jocelyn, Jerry Juhl and Michael Frith brainstorming in Jim's house in Hampstead during the summer of 1981.
	fragglerock.scarecroe.com /fraggleworld.htm (1022 words)

	Presskit text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kenworthy recalls, "Richard gave me a copy of Four Weddings and a Funeral and I read it and told him it was the best thing he'd ever written.
		Kenworthy explains, "I think the hardest thing to achieve in a comedy is something that Richard seems to manage effortlessly-to make you laugh and care at the same time.
		All forces in filmmaking in their own right, the re-combination of Curtis, Kenworthy and Working Title's Bevan and Fellner made for a dream situation when it came time to filling the roles of the seemingly multitudinous cast-the combined rolodexes alone could provide endless possibilities for casting choices.
	www.sfo.com /~meluchie/articles/la_facts.html (5447 words)

	Fraggle Rock - the when, the how and the who's
		Kenworthy says: "Jim was single-minded about the real reason for doing this series.
		Jocelyn Stevenson, like Duncan Kenworthy, was involved from the beginning in the project that became Fraggle Rock, and she did much to shape the series:
		"Jim, Jerry Juhl, Duncan Kenworthy, Michael Frith, and I had spent most of the day trying to come up with names for the characters for the project we were calling 'The Interntional Children's Show'.
	home.no.net /fraggel/fragglerock.htm (1743 words)

	Cineuropa - Interviews - Duncan Kenworthy
		The recently released Love Actually is the third feature film collaboration between the award-winning duo, the producer Duncan Kenworthy, and the screenwriter, Richard Curtis.
		And this new work once again looks at the world of love, after the couple explored the theme in the international box office hits, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill.
		Kenworthy has also worked in television production as well as producing other films for the cinema (including Lawn Dogs and The Parole Officer).
	www.cineuropa.org /interview.aspx?lang=ing&documentID=47598 (882 words)

	Orange BAFA Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		on a cold January morning, BAFTA chairman Duncan Kenworthy and actress Emily Mortimer were preparing to do something unprecedented: This year, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts opted to announce its nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards live on U.K. television.
		Suddenly, it was 10 seconds to go before a relaxed Kenworthy and Mortimer opened nine gold envelopes between them and implored the live-morning TV audience to tune in to the Feb. 12 awards ceremony on BBC television.
		While no financial details of the broadcasting deals were revealed, onlookers agree that Saturday's new broadcasting slot is a fillip to the stature of the awards, which traditionally have aired on Sunday.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000790476 (1083 words)

	Colin Firth - Love Actually
		First he sarcastically describes Duncan, Anthony, Lee and Simon as "great musicians" before drawing a speech bubble on a poster of the boys, ridiculing the size of their manhood's.
		Kenworthy is all the more relieved as Curtis had to manage a hefty ensemble cast including Hugh Grant, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon and Bill Nighy.
		Curtis, Kenworthy and a cameraman flew out to Kenya July 24 to shoot the opening image—a picture on a wall of a group of Africans, who come to life and start speaking Swahili to each other.
	www.firth.com /love.html (5814 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 26 Feb 2002 (pt 11)
		Attendees: Alan Parker, Joan Bakewell, Tim Bevan, Charles Denton, Duncan Kenworthy, James Lee, Sarah Radclyffe, Iain Smith, Parminder Vir, Paul Webster.
		Attendees: Stewart Till, Charles Denton, John Hill, Duncan Kenworthy, James Lee, Sarah Radclyffe, Iain Smith, Parminder Vir, Paul Webster.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the steps taken by the Film Council to ensure that no conflict of interest existed when decisions to make awards to organisations in which members of the board of the Film Council had an interest were taken.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020226/text/20226w11.htm (1916 words)

	Preview Online - Hollywood Notes
		IT HAPPENED WHILE he was casting Notting Hill, recalls British producer Duncan Kenworthy.
		Julia Roberts walked into the restaurant where they were due to meet and said simply, “Hi, I’m Julia!” There were two things that surprised Kenworthy, he says.
		One, that, after months of waiting for agents to return his calls, he was actually talking to the star herself.
	www.preview-online.com /jan-feb02/hollywood_notes (1456 words)

	Duncan Kenworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		When Duncan Kenworthy took a leave of absence from his duties with Jim Henson Productions to produce a "little" film he couldn't have imagined that the Oscar-nominated Best Picture "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) would become the most commercially successful British film of all time and alter the course of his career forever.
		Beginning at the Children's Television Workshop in the 1970s, he worked on "Sesame Street" and later produced an Arabic version of the popular educational staple for Kuwaiti TV....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/192588 (204 words)

	(Jo Anne KENWORTHY - Margo Catherine KENWORTHY ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Joseph Edway KENWORTHY (25 Jan 1877 - ____)
		Julius James KENWORTHY (14 Mar 1879 - ____)
		Lila Mary KENWORTHY (24 Nov 1908 - 27 Mar 1927)
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/3864/index/ind0269.html (105 words)

	Kenworthy Chair of BAFTA - britfilms.com
		Hot on the heels of the news that Stewart Till will take over from Alan Parker as chairman of the UK Film Council, BAFTA has announced that Duncan Kenworthy will succeed Michael Attwell as chairman.
		Producer Kenworthy is chairman of DNA Films, and has had a hand in many of the UK's hit films of recent years, including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually and 28 Days Later.
		He also chairs the British Council's Advisory Committee, helping to steer the work of the Film Department.
	www.britfilms.com /newsandevents/kenworthychairofbafta (158 words)

	Berlin Film Festival 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Britain's two most successful producers of recent years, Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) and Duncan Kenworthy (Four Weddings and a Funeral) have formed a joint venture, DNA Films.
		The name DNA, which stands for Duncan-and-Andrew, was coined by Kenworthy's friend, Anthony Minghella.
		Macdonald was in Berlin to meet PolyGram Germany and to attend the festival screening of Twin Town.
	www.filmfestivalspro.com /berlin97/bnewsd26.htm (221 words)

	Cannes 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It had been expected that four would be awarded.
		New Secretary of State for National Heritage Chris Smith announced that DNA Films, the partnership of producers Duncan Kenworthy and Andrew Macdonald, Anglo-French consortium Pathe Pictures and The Film Consortium (TFC), comprising the likes of Scala Productions and the Virgin group, were the successful applicants.
		DNA Films is a joint venture between Duncan Kenworthy's Toledo Pictures and Andrew Macdonald's Figment Films, with PolyGram handling UK distribution to make 16 films specifically aimed at British audiences.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes97/cnewse2.htm (443 words)

	BAFTA Worldwide Voting Membership Limits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Below you will find a letter from Duncan Kenworthy, Chairman of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, UK, our parent organization.
		We believe that in the long run the changes it describes will be a good thing for BAFTA, for all the reasons Duncan enumerates.
		These changes may create some challenges for BAFTA East Coast as the smallest of the BAFTA chapters.
	www.baftaeastcoast.com /baftaeastcoast/press2004/memberlimit.htm (743 words)

	Colin Firth in Love Actually
		Duncan Kenworthy for Working Title Films, Universal Pictures and Canal Plus
		The film interweaves ten separate stories about Londoners looking for love in the run-up to Christmas, climaxing on Christmas Eve.
		Having first teamed with Curtis on Four Weddings And A Funeral, Kenworthy went on to produce Curtis' Notting Hill, also with Hugh Grant, outside DNA.
	hem.passagen.se /lmw/love_actually.html (575 words)

	Bafta Scotland :: Duncan Kenworthy Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In keeping with our long tradition of special events at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, BAFTA Scotland Members were invited to attend an interview with DUNCAN KENWORTHY at UGC Cinema Fountain Park Edinburgh on Thursday 22 August 2002 at 4pm.
		Duncan Kenworthy has a formidable track record in film - having produced many landmark films during the past decade including Four Weddings and a Funeral (94), TV's Gulliver's Travels (96), Lawn Dogs (97), Notting Hill (99), The Parole Officer (2001) and, as executive producer, Damien O'Donnell's Heartlands (2002).
		The latter will have its World Premiere at the Film Festival on Thursday 22nd August.
	www.baftascotland.co.uk /htm/eff_kenworthy.htm (303 words)

	Julia Roberts: The Unofficial Pages
		This is a great romantic comedy which asks " Can love overcome all obstacles in its path ?" Only by watching "Notting Hill" can you find out.
		Romantic Comedy D-Roger Michell P-Duncan Kenworthy S-Richard Curtis C-Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers From the producer and screenwriter of "FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL," comes a romantic comedy set in the west London district of Notting Hill.
		Hugh Grant stars as William, the divorced owner of a small bookshop, who lives in a unassuming flat with a curious Welshman named Spike.
	www.fortunecity.com /lavendar/chelmsford/81/jrnews.html (1031 words)

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