Andrea Arnold

Andrea ARNOLD (1961, UK) started her career as an actor and television presenter, before moving to Los Angeles to study directing at the American Film Institute. In 1998, she directed her first short film Milk, which was shown at numerous international film festivals. For her short film Wasp, she received the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2005. After being awarded the Prix du Jury at the 2006 Cannes film festival for Red Road and again in 2009 for Fish Tank, she completed her first literary adaptation Wuthering Heights (2011), which was nominated for a Golden Lion in Venice. In 2011, she was also appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to film. She became New York Film Festival’s first Filmmaker in Residence in 2013, and has been a jury member at Cannes, Venice and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Arnold’s American Honey (2016) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Palme d’Or competition and won the Prix du Jury. It was also nominated for the BAFTA for Best British Film. She directed the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies in 2019.