Wells director’s award success

Wells film director Edgar Wright is

celebrating after winning three awards for his movie Scott Pilgrim Vs The

World. 

The former Wells Blue School pupil this

week won the Best Director award and the Empire Inspiration award at the Jameson

Empire Movie Awards and also scooped the Best Comedy Director prize at the Comedy

Central Comedy Awards. 

On his blog www.edgarwrighthere.com the director

of Hot Fuzz, which was filmed in Wells, said: “Well, the Empire Awards was a

great night, I was partly lost for words, especially at the shock of winning

Best Director with such amazing, prestigious competition. 

“So I must again say thanks to all the

Empire readers who voted for me. It means a lot to this West Country boy.” 

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is the story of the

23-year-old eponymous hero (played by Michael Cera) whose life is turned upside

down when he meets Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). 

Scott wants her to be his girlfriend, but

before this can happen he has to battle and defeat all of her seven

ex-boyfriends who will do anything to get rid of and destroy any new boyfriend

Ramona may consider. 

The film has gone down well with audiences

and critics, and among the awards it has won are Best Film Director in the SFX

Awards 2011, Best Comedy at the St Louis Film Critics 2010, Best Motion Picture

(Comedy or Musical) at the Satellite Awards 2010 and the Audience Award at the

Lund International Fantastic Film Festival 2010. 

Among Wright’s next projects to be released

is the highly exciting The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

which is due for release later this year. 

Wright co-wrote the screenplay for the

Steven Spielberg-directed movie, which stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, Daniel Craig

as Red Rackham, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thomson, plus Cary

Elwes, Andy Serkis and Mackenzie Crook.