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Marc Munden(I)

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  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Marc Munden
Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.
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Marc Munden is a three-time BAFTA winner and an eight-time BAFTA nominee. He started as an assistant to Mike Leigh, Derek Jarman and Terence Davies before directing documentaries for the BBC.

He has been nominated on 8 occasions for a Royal Television Society Award, winning for The Devil's Whore, National Treasure, The Third Day (Autumn) and HELP.

Utopia and HELP won International Emmys for Best Drama Series and Best Single Drama in 2014 and 2022

In 2017 after four BAFTA nominations for Best Director he won for National Treasure.
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    • Won 3 BAFTA Awards
      • 20 wins & 18 nominations total

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    Known for

    Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Oh, Hoa Xuande, and Fred Nguyen Khan in The Sympathizer (2024)
    The Sympathizer
    6.8
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    Utopia (2013)
    Utopia
    8.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    Jude Law, Emily Watson, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston in The Third Day (2020)
    The Third Day
    6.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer in Help (2021)
    Help
    7.6
    TV Movie
    • Director
    • 2021

    Credits

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    Director

    • Sovereign
      • Director
      • Production Unknown
    • Lord of the Flies
      • Director
      • Filming
      • TV Series
    • Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Oh, Hoa Xuande, and Fred Nguyen Khan in The Sympathizer (2024)
      The Sympathizer
      6.8
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Never Let Me Go (2023)
      Never Let Me Go
      5.6
      TV Series
      • directed by
      • 2023
    • Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer in Help (2021)
      Help
      7.6
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2021
    • The Third Day: Autumn (2020)
      The Third Day: Autumn
      7.6
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Jude Law, Emily Watson, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston in The Third Day (2020)
      The Third Day
      6.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Dixie Egerickx in The Secret Garden (2020)
      The Secret Garden
      5.6
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Electric Dreams (2017)
      Electric Dreams
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters in National Treasure (2016)
      National Treasure
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Quantico (2015)
      Quantico
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Utopia (2013)
      Utopia
      8.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013–2014
    • Toby Stephens in Black Sails (2014)
      Black Sails
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2014
    • Romola Garai in The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
      The Crimson Petal and the White
      7.5
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Some Dogs Bite (2010)
      Some Dogs Bite
      6.0
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2010
    • John Simm, Dominic West, Michael Fassbender, and Andrea Riseborough in The Devil's Mistress (2008)
      The Devil's Mistress
      7.0
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2008
    • The Mark of Cain (2007)
      The Mark of Cain
      6.4
      • Director
      • 2007

    Producer

    • Lord of the Flies
      • executive producer
      • Filming
      • TV Series
    • Never Let Me Go (2023)
      Never Let Me Go
      5.6
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer in Help (2021)
      Help
      7.6
      TV Movie
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Jude Law, Emily Watson, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston in The Third Day (2020)
      The Third Day
      6.4
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters in National Treasure (2016)
      National Treasure
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2016
    • Utopia (2013)
      Utopia
      8.4
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2014
    • Artefact #3 Swandown
      6.3
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2012
    • Artefact #4 Swandown
      6.0
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2012
    • Artefact #5 Swandown
      6.6
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2012
    • Artefact #1 Swandown
      5.5
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2012
    • Swandown (2012)
      Swandown
      6.5
      • executive producer
      • 2012
    • Artefact #2 Swandown
      5.8
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2012
    • Self Made (2010)
      Self Made
      7.0
      • executive producer
      • 2010
    • Modern Times (1995)
      Modern Times
      6.3
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 1995
    • Beverly Hills Is Bournemouth with Sunshine
      Short
      • producer
      • 1989

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • War Requiem (1989)
      War Requiem
      6.6
      • second assistant director
      • 1989
    • High Hopes (1988)
      High Hopes
      7.4
      • second assistant director
      • 1988
    • Lorraine Ashbourne, Angela Walsh, and Dean Williams in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
      Distant Voices, Still Lives
      7.4
      • second assistant director
      • 1988
    • Tandoori Nights (1985)
      Tandoori Nights
      8.0
      TV Series
      • second assistant director
      • 1987
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      His television production of Vanity Fair received 6 BAFTA nominations and won 3 other major prizes while Touching Evil for ITV received nominations for Best Series from both BAFTA and the Royal Television Society.

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