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Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners

Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, which he wrote and directed, and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners.

Suzannah Lipscomb (Chair of Costa Biography Award) announces the category winners of the five 2019 Costa Book Awards exclusively on Front Row and Stig talks live to the winner of the Best Biography.

Twenty years after the success of his debut film American Beauty, Sam Mendes has once again taken the top prize at the Golden Globes with his First World War epic 1917. He explains how his grandfather鈥檚 experience as a messenger on the Western Front inspired the film, which is filmed as if it鈥檚 one continuous shot.

Presenter Stig Abell
Producer Simon Richardson

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Sam Mendes on WW1 movie 1917

Sam Mendes on WW1 movie 1917

1917 is in UK cinemas from 10 January 2020, certificate 15.

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Main image above: George MacKay (Centre)听in 1917

Image to the left (from Left): Dean-Charles Chapman, Sam Mendes and George Mackay on the 蝉别迟听

Images credit: Francois Duhamel/Universal Pictures

(c) 2020 Universal Pictures & Storyteller Distribution Co, Llc

Costa Book Awards 2019

Costa Book Awards 2019

Image: , Chair of the Biography Prize听judges.

Jack Fairweather, Costa Biography Prize winner

Jack Fairweather, Costa Biography Prize winner

by Jack Fairweather has won the 2019 Costa Biography Award.

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Image credit: Barney Jones

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