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Temple Grandin is a 2010 American biographical drama television film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.
Grandin is the focus of a semi-biographical HBO film entitled Temple Grandin, [61] [62] starring Claire Danes as Grandin (2010). It was nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards and won seven, including Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Claire Danes. [63]
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
Elliot Grandin (born 1987), French footballer; Ethel Grandin (1894–1988), American silent movie actress; Gunnar Grandin (1918–2004), Swedish Navy rear admiral; Philomène Grandin (born 1974), Swedish actress and television personality; Temple Grandin (born 1947), American professor of animal science; Tom Grandin (1907–1977), American ...
Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943) is an English film director and television producer best known for the 1984 BAFTA Award-winning television film Threads. [1] He is also known for directing projects such as the comedy L.A. Story (1991), the romance drama The Bodyguard (1992), the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010), and the drama Denial (2016).
She has played in TV movies as well, including a role in Temple Grandin (an HBO biopic of Temple Grandin), and played Bristol Palin in the HBO Television movie Game Change. She also played Izzy in Call Me Crazy: A Five Film. In 2014, she starred in the Western drama series Strange Empire on CBC Television. [2]
The HBO film Temple Grandin won five major awards, tying the record for most major wins by a television film, set by Promise in 1987. The ceremony was telecast live coast-to-coast in the United States by NBC, the first such broadcast since ABC did so for the 34th ceremony held in 1976. [6]
Christopher Monger (born 1950, in Taffs Well, Cardiff, Wales [1]) is a Welsh screenwriter, director and editor, best known for writing and directing The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain and writing the HBO biopic Temple Grandin. He has directed eight feature films and written over thirty screenplays.