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Directing

Simon Godwin

Career

Active from 1971 to 2024, with a break from 1993 to 2014, busiest in 2015 with 3 main titles.

Average score
GoodWatch score70/100
Highest rated
Poster for National Theatre Live: Macbeth
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
GoodWatch score76/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 7 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

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Simon Godwin Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    3.1, average 5.4
  • Mystery
    2.1, average 4.0
  • Tech & Humanity
    0.2, average 1.6
  • Tension
    4.8, average 6.0

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Period Setting 2
  • Social Commentary 2
  • Shakespearean Tragedy 2
  • Shakespearean Comedy 2
  • Theatrical Production 2
  • Romantic Entanglements 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

17
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

5 titles ยท average score 73
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2024)
GoodWatch score 76

Director

King Lear
King Lear (2023)

Director

National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing (2022)

Director

National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2021)
GoodWatch score 70

Director

All The Devils Are Here
All The Devils Are Here (2021)

Director

2010s

9 titles ยท average score 78
National Theatre Live: Hansard
National Theatre Live: Hansard (2019)

Director

RSC Live: Timon of Athens
RSC Live: Timon of Athens (2019)

Director

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2018)
GoodWatch score 72

Director

National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
GoodWatch score 83

Stage Director

RSC Live: Hamlet
RSC Live: Hamlet (2016)

Director

Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2015)

Director

National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem
National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem (2015)

Director

RSC Live: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
RSC Live: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2015)

Director

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman (2015)
GoodWatch score 81

Stage Director

1990s

3 titles ยท average score 72
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders (1997)
GoodWatch score 80

TV show ยท as Giovanni

The Sand Fairy
The Sand Fairy (1992)

as Cyril

Five Children and It
Five Children and It (1991)
GoodWatch score 63

TV show ยท as Cyril