James Hawes

James Hawes set-up and directed the entire first season of ‘Slow Horses’ for AppleTV+.

His debut feature, ‘One Life’, premiered at TIFF and LFF in September 2023 and releases in the UK and US in early 2024. Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins in a true story about the rescue of refugee children from pre-war Prague, the movie co-stars Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter and Jonathan Pryce.

James is one of just three directors to have helmed multiple episodes of the multi-Emmy and BAFTA winning series, ‘Black Mirror’, directing the feature-length finales in both the 2016 and 2018 seasons, with ‘Hated In The Nation’ and ‘Smithereens’.

Winning his first BAFTA nomination in 2010 for his TV movie ‘Enid’, which won BAFTA and Emmy nominations for his cast, James won The Royal Television Society award for best TV movie in 2015 for ‘The Challenger Disaster’. In 2019, James completed work as lead and producing director on HBO’s ‘Snowpiercer’, a global hit for HBO Max and Netflix.

‘Slow Horses’ is the sixth of seven shows James has piloted that have gone on to multiple seasons.

James began shooting his second feature – ‘The Amateur’ – starring Rami Malek – for Twentieth Century Studios – in summer 2023.