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English screenwriter, novelist, and actor

Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming. while still at primary school. He attended St Bartholomew's Primary School in Rainhill and West Park Grammar School. He read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he went on to earn a doctorate. He wrote criticism for the magazine Living Marxism. As a result, there was supposedly always a copy of the magazine on sale in the newsagent set of long running British soap Coronation Street, while Cottrell Boyce was on the writing staff of that programme. He met Denise Cottrell, a fellow Keble undergraduate, and they married in Keble College chapel. Together they have seven children. He is also a patron of the Insight Film Festival, a biennial, interfaith festival held in Manchester, UK, to make positive contributions to understanding, respect and community cohesion. Aidan Cottrell Boyce, one of the couple's sons, is also a writer.

He was a leading light in the Liverpool band "Dead Trout" in 1979. After he met Michael Winterbottom, the two collaborated on Forget About Me. Winterbottom made five further films based on screenplays written by Cottrell Boyce, Butterfly Kiss, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Claim, 24 Hour Party People and Code 46. Their 2005 collaboration, A Cock and Bull Story, is their last according to Cottrell Boyce, who asked that his contribution be credited to "Martin Hardy", a pseudonym. He told Variety, "I just had to move on  what better way to walk away than by giving Winterbottom a good script for free?" Other film directors Cottrell Boyce has worked with include Danny Boyle (Millions), Alex Cox (Revengers Tragedy), Richard Laxton (Grow Your Own) and Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie). Cottrell Boyce has been praised by Roger Ebert as one of the few truly inventive modern day screenwriters. He has spoken against the "three act structure" and the "hero's journey" formulas, which are often regarded as axiomatic truths in the business. perhaps his most famous example of this is in 24 Hour Party People where the character of Anthony Wilson states that “Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. This is Manchester. We do things differently. This is the second act” which Cottrell Boyce has stated was due to criticism of the script not following the three act structure. In addition to original scripts, Cottrell Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction. His first novel Millions was based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name; it was published by Macmillan in 2004. Cottrell Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising it as the year's best children's book published in the U. K. which was published in October 2011 as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again. In addition to Coronation Street, he wrote many episodes of the soap opera Brookside, as well as its spin offs Damon and Debbie and South. He wrote and staged his first original theatre production Proper Clever at the Liverpool Playhouse during the city's European Capital of Culture Year, in 2008. On 18 September 2010, he co presented the Papal Visit at Hyde Park with TV personality Carol Vorderman. In June 2012, he assumed the position of Professor of Reading (the first such professorship) at Liverpool Hope University. Cottrell Boyce was the writer of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, whose storyline he based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. in the development of the story and themes, and wrote "short documents that told the story of each segment" to provide context for choreographers, builders and other participants. He also wrote the brochure, In 2014, Cottrell Boyce wrote an episode of Doctor Who, titled "In the Forest of the Night". He also wrote the second episode of the tenth series, "Smile". In September 2015, Cottrell Boyce held the keynote speech at the Children´s and Young Adult Program of the 15th Berlin International Literature Festival. In January 2018, he was on the victorious Keble College, Oxford University Challenge "famous alumni" team; he got almost all of the points scored by Keble (total score 240) and was lionized on social media as a consequence; Reading University scored 0 in that game, thus making television history. Cottrell Boyce is an advocate for reading aloud and patron of The Reader Organisation. a charity that works through volunteers to bring literature to everyone, through reading aloud in prisons, care homes and other community spaces.

Production Director DistributorButterfly Kiss (1995)Michael WinterbottomElectricWelcome to Sarajevo (1997)Michael WinterbottomWarner Bros. PicturesHilary and Jackie (1998)Anand TuckerChannel 4 Films (UK), October Films (U. S.)Pandaemonium (2000)Julien TempleOptimum ReleasingThe Claim (2000)Michael WinterbottomPathé (UK), United Artists (US)24 Hour Party People (2002)Michael WinterbottomPathé (UK), United Artists (US)Revengers Tragedy (2002)Alex CoxWorld Cinema Ltd. Code 46 (2003)Michael WinterbottomMGMMillions (2004)Danny BoylePathé Distribution (UK), Fox Searchlight Pictures (USA)A Cock and Bull Story (2005)Michael WinterbottomRedbus Film DistributionGrow Your Own (2007)Richard LaxtonPathé, Warp FilmsThe Railway Man (2013)Jonathan TeplitzkyLionsgate (UK), The Weinstein Company (US) Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)Simon CurtisFox Searchlight Pictures Sometimes Always Never (2018)Carl Hunter Parkland Entertainment (UK), Blue Fox Entertainment (USA) Kensuke's Kingdom (2023) Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry Le Pacte (France) The Beautiful Game (2024) Thea Sharrock Netflix