Jez Butterworth is a British multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for his 2009 box office record-breaking play Jerusalem, the 2015 James Bond film Spectre and the 2019 sports biopic Ford v Ferrari starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon.
Jerusalem transferred from the Royal Court to the West end, winning multiple awards, including The UK Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play and Best Foreign Play at the New York Critics Circle Awards and received six Tony nominations, winning two, including Best Actor for Mark Rylance.
His sixth play
Jez Butterworth is a British multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for his 2009 box office record-breaking play Jerusalem, the 2015 James Bond film Spectre and the 2019 sports biopic Ford v Ferrari starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon.
Jerusalem transferred from the Royal Court to the West end, winning multiple awards, including The UK Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play and Best Foreign Play at the New York Critics Circle Awards and received six Tony nominations, winning two, including Best Actor for Mark Rylance.
His sixth play for the Royal Court, The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes, received 15 five-star reviews in the UK daily press and won 3 Olivier Awards for Best Director, Best Play and Best Actress and moved to Broadway, where it was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning four including the award for Best Play.
Other theatre credits include his first play Mojo in 1995, which won seven major awards, including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, and The Night Heron, The Winterling, Parlour Song and The River starring Hugh Jackman. In 2007, Butterworth won the E.M Forster award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
For the screen, Butterworth created the 2018 historical fantasy drama series Britannia, the first co-production between Sky and Prime Video, starring David Morrisey and Zoe Wanamaker, which ran for three seasons. Other screenwriting credits include Fair Game starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, Get On Up, starring Chadwick Boseman and Octavia Spencer, and Edge Of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
For 2022, Butterworth has written the six-part Amazon Original series Mammals starring James Corden, Sally Hawkins, Melia Kreiling and Colin Morgan.
