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| Established | 1971 |
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| Location | Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom 51°36′19″N 0°38′15″W / 51.6054°N 0.6374°W / 51.6054; -0.6374 |
| Affiliations | CILECT |
| Website | www.nfts.co.uk |
The National Film and Television School (NFTS) was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and it is located close to Pinewood Studios.
Awards and nominations
The students regularly get nominated (and sometimes win) international awards, even Oscars.
Examples includes The Hill Farm (Mark Baker),Second Class Mail (Allison Snowden) and A Grand Day Out (Nick Park).
2011
| Director | Film | Festival | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toom, Tanel | The Confession | Academy Awards (USA) | Short Film (Live Action) (nominated) |
| Toom, Tanel | The Confession | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film (nominated) |
2010
| Director | Film | Festival | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon, Philip | Yellow Belly End | British Animation Awards (UK) | Best Student Film |
| Bacon, Philip | Yellow Belly End | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film (nominated) |
| Bacon, Philip | Yellow Belly End | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Animation |
| Flor, Joana | The Next Big Thing | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment (nominated) |
| Fragkopoulos, Konstantinos | Blackwater | Learning On Screen awards (UK) | Best Student Production (shortlisted) |
| Garrido-Prada, Sophia | The Next Big Thing | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment (nominated) |
| Green, Tom | Brixton 85 | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Fiction |
| Green, Tom | Kid | Angers Premiers Plans Film Festival (France) | Students of Angers Award for European Student Films |
| Green, Tom | Kid | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Fiction (nominated) |
| Lee, Hyebin | Cherry on the Cake | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Animation (nominated) |
| Marhaban, Li | The End of the Line | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film (nominated) |
| Mather, Vicky | Stanley Pickle | Chicago International Film Festival (USA) | Silver Plaque for Best Animation |
| Mather, Vicky | Stanley Pickle | Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) | McLaren Award for Best Animation |
| Mather, Vicky | Stanley Pickle | KROK International Animated Film Festival (Russia & Ukraine) | Best Graduation Film |
| Mather, Vicky | Stanley Pickle | Raindance Film Festival (UK) | Best UK Short |
| O'Leary, Mike | Not Safe for Work | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment |
| Olteanu, Marius | Why Don't You Dance? | Fujifilm Shorts Competition (UK) | Finalist |
| Piercy, Helen | Goodbye Mr. Pink | Fujifilm Shorts Competition (UK) | Finalist |
| Press, Guy | TV or Not TV? | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment (nominated) |
| Rodríguez, Alberto | The Incredible Story of my Great Grandmother Olive | Learning On Screen awards (UK) | Best Student Production |
| Rodríguez, Alberto | The Incredible Story of my Great Grandmother Olive | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film (nominated) |
| Toom, Tanel | The Confession | Student Academy Awards (USA) | Honorary Foreign Film |
| Woodward, Will | No Easy Time | Sheffield International Documentary Festival (UK) | Student Doc Award |
2009
| Director | Film | Festival | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blair, Sam | Sprinters | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Documentary award (nominated) |
| Clark, Ian | Outcasts | Fujifilm Shorts Competition (UK) | Best Short Film |
| Clark, Ian | Outcasts | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Drama award (nominated) |
| Dean, Leon | Valley of the Goats | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Documentary award (nominated) |
| de Jesus, FernandoR Gutierrez (co-director) | Commission Impossible | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment award (nominated) |
| Deshon, Simon | Bill's Visitors | WorldFest International Film Festival (USA) | Platinum Remi, Best Animation |
| El-Amriti, Ikram | Sounds Like a Laugh | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment award (nominated) |
| Fragkopoulos, Konstantinos | Blackwater | WorldFest International Film Festival (USA) | Platinum Remi, Best Film |
| Gooch, Chris | Mummy's Boy | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film |
| Harrie, Samantha | Love Letters | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Drama award (nominated) |
| Karia, Aneil | Spilt Milk | Learning On Screen awards (UK) | Best Student Production |
| Karia, Aneil | Spilt Milk | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment award (nominated) |
| Lee, Hyebin | Cherry on the Cake | Shanghai International Film Festival (China) | Best Animation |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Golden Rhyton Film Festival (Bulgaria) | Best Debut and Award of the Bulgarian National Television |
| Metev, Ilian | Golshovo | Kraków Film Festival (Poland) | Don Quichote Award |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Lessinia Film Festival (Italy) | Veneto Award |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Lessinia Film Festival (Italy) | Young Director Award |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | New Zealand Documentary Film Festival | Best Short Documentary (nominated) |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival (Germany) | Best Documentary Film |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Timishort, Timisoara Short Film Festival (Romania) | Audience Award |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Timishort, Timisoara Short Film Festival (Romania) | Best Director Award |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Valdivia Film Festival (Chile) | Best Short Film |
| Pearce, Michael | Madrugada | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Drama award (nominated) |
| Pearce, Sally | Elephants | BAFTA Cymru (Wales, UK) | Best Short Film (nominated) |
| Pearce, Sally | Elephants | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film (nominated) |
| Pearce, Sally | Elephants | Shanghai International Film Festival (China) | Best Creative Idea |
| Pearce, Sally | Elephants | Ffresh – Student Moving Image Festival of Wales (Wales, UK) | Out of Sight award |
| Pierce, Joseph | Stand Up | Learning On Screen awards (UK) | Best Student Production (nominated) |
| Pierce, Joseph | Stand Up | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Animation award (nominated) |
| Ritchie, Luke Oliver (co-director) | Commission Impossible | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Postgraduate Entertainment award (nominated) |
| Rodríguez, Alberto | The Incredible Story of my Great Grandmother Olive | Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (USA) | Best Student Animation Award (2nd place) |
| Wagner, Estephan | Waiting for Women | Festival La Fila (Spain) | Best Documentary |
| Wagner, Estephan | Waiting for Women | International Documentary Film Festival (Uruguay) | Special Jury Mention |
| Wagner, Estephan | Waiting for Women | Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (USA) | Best Student Documentary Award |
2008
| Director | Film | Festival | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aguirre, Silvana | Ela | Academy Awards (USA) | Best Short Film (Live Action) (shortlisted) |
| Aguirre, Silvana | Ela | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Drama (nominated) |
| Banozcki, Tibor | Milk Teeth | Cartoon Forum (Europe) | Cartoon d'or (nominated) |
| Banozcki, Tibor | Milk Teeth | Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (South Korea) | Special Distinction (Graduation Film) |
| Banozcki, Tibor | Milk Teeth | Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) | Special Mention (Best Graduation Film) |
| Forés, Marçal | Friends Forever | Premier Plans Festival d'Angers (France) | Prix MikroCine/Canal+ Cinema Award |
| Forés, Marçal | Friends Forever | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Drama Award |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany) | Talent Dove |
| Metev, Ilian | Goleshovo | Molodist, Kyiv International Film Festival (Ukraine) | Best Student Film |
| Pierce, Joseph | Stand Up | Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) | McLaren Award for Animation (2nd Prize) |
| Pierce, Joseph | Stand Up | Rushes Soho Shorts Festival (UK) | Best Animation (nominated) |
| Tucker, Joe | For the Love of God | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Student Sound Editing (nominated) |
| Tucker, Joe | For the Love of God | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Animation (nominated) |
| Tucker, Joe | For the Love of God | Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA) | Bruce Corwin Award for Best Animation |
| Varela, Peque | 1977 | Arcipelago Film Festival (Italy) | Best Digital Shortfilm |
| Varela, Peque | 1977 | Festival de Cans (Spain) | Best Animation |
| Varela, Peque | 1977 | Festival de Curtmetratges de Manlleu (Spain) | Best Animation |
| Varela, Peque | 1977 | Montecatini Shortfilm Festival (Italy) | Best Debut Film |
| Varela, Peque | 1977 | Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) | Best Student Film |
2007
| Director | Film | Festival | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aguirre, Silvana | Ela | Cine Gear Expo (Los Angeles, USA) | 2nd Prize |
| Ahmed, Sadik | Tanju Miah | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Factual Film |
| Banozcki, Tibor | Milk Teeth | Annecy International Animation Festival (France) | Jury's Special Award |
| Banozcki, Tibor | Milk Teeth | Karlovy Vary Fresh Films Festival (Czech Republic) | Theatre Optique Award for Best Animated Film |
| Banozcki, Tibor | Milk Teeth | Puchon International Student Animation Festival (South Korea) | Vision Prize |
| Colman, Sharon | Badgered | Telluride Mountainfilm Festival (USA) | Best Animated Film |
| Forés, Marçal | Friends Forever | Dinard Festival of British Cinema (France) | Best Short Film |
| Gitton, Esteban | Oxford Circus | Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games (UK) | Visual Effects Award |
| Lemmetty, Leevi | Mad World | Royal Television Society Student Television Awards (UK) | Best Animation |
| Peres, Catia | Synchronoff | MPSE Golden Reels Awards (USA) | Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film (nominated) |
| Ruiz, Valeria | A Moment | Brooklyn International Film Festival (USA) | Audience Award for Best Short Film |
| Sanderson, Piers | Listen to Bradford | Satyajit Ray Foundation (UK) | Short Film Award (nominated) |
| Tang, Eva | Londres-London | Hawaii International Film Festival (USA) | Best 10 Short Film Finalist |
| Tang, Eva | Londres-London | Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards | Jury Recommendation |
| Tucker, Joe | For the Love of God | Chicago International Film Festival (USA) | Silver Hugo |
| Tucker, Joe | For the Love of God | Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA) | Best Animation |
| Tucker, Joe | For the Love of God | Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA) | Grand Prize |
| Varela, Peque | 1977 | London International Animation Festival (UK) | Audience Award |