Trivia

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018.

His film The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021) opened the Cannes Film Festival 2021.

'Kirk Douglas' said that, of the thousands of interviews he'd done, his 'Scene by Scene (1997)' Kirk Douglas (2000) 60-minute interview with Mark Cousins was the best.

Board Member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival.

Two-time winner of the 'Stanley Kubrick Award'.

Mark Cousins' films combined have screened at over 150 film festivals worldwide.

Mark Cousins' famously axed his own film 'Bigger Than The Shining's DCP (Digital Cinema Package) following a screening in front of a live audience at the 2017 International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR). This was done with the intention being for it to never be shown again, this was the only copy of the film.

Member of the 'Audentia Award' jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019.

Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cousins' previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996-1997) of the festival.

Writer for 'Sight & Sound' and 'Filmkrant'.

His film The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), is described by writer & director 'Edgar Wright' as 'essential viewing'.

Founder of the 8½ Foundation with actor, 'Tilda Swinton'.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 65th BFI London Film Festival in 2021.

Together with 'Antonia Bird', 'Robert Carlyle' and 'Irvine Welsh', Cousins is a director of the production company 4Way Pictures.

Mark Cousins and actor 'Tilda Swinton' carried a 33.5-tonne portable cinema across the Scotland Highlands to bring cinema around the country. Titled 'Pilgrimage: A Scottish Road Movie Festival', which became one of the central parts of the documentary 'Cinema Is Everywhere (2011)'.

Parodied by 'The Adam and Joe Show (1996)' in Episode #4.6 (2001), spoofing his show 'Scene by Scene (1997)'. Where 'Adam Buxton' and 'Joe Cornish' portray Cousins and 'Guy Ritchie' as puppets.

Drove from Scotland to India, first heading to Iran to get a boat to Mumbai.

He was a guest curator at the 'Eye Cinematheque' in Amsterdam.

He has made regular appearances on Mark Kermode's YouTube Channel "Kermode Uncut".

Appointed 'Chairperson' of the 'Belfast Film Festival' in 2018.

Elected as a 'Fellow' of the 'Royal Society of Edinburgh' in 2019.

Dr Mark Cousins as appointed the 'Honorary Professor' of the 'University of Glasgow' in 2013, as well as the 'Honorary Doctor of Letters' at both the 'University of Edinburgh' in 2007 and 'University of Stirling' in 2014.

Together with actor 'Tilda Swinton' devised a cinema in Beijing and did a pilgrimage which gained worldwide attention.

Co-Artistic Director of 'Cinema China', 'The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams' and 'A Pilgrimage' with actor 'Tilda Swinton'.

Co-editor of Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary with director, 'Kevin Macdonald'.

Between 2001 and 2011, he wrote for Prospect Magazine.

In 2004 he helped establish 'Sylvain Chomet's Studio Django' in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Winner of the 'Manfred Salzgeber Prize' at the 'Berlin International Film Festival' 2009.

Winner of the 'European Film Award' for 'Innovative Storytelling' in 2020.

In 2012, he was nominated for both the 'London Awards for Art and Performance' and the 'Screen International Award'.

His film, 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)' won the 'The Peabody Award' 2013.

Throughout his career has interviewed directors, producers and actors including Martin Scorsese, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Sean Connery, Brian De Palma, Steve Martin, Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Moreau, Terence Stamp, Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh and Rod Steiger.

Awarded the 'Outstanding Achievement Award' from the 'British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies' (BAFTSS) 2020.