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Jan 24, 2020 · Published on 24 January 2020. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to spend a morning of laughter with Nik Powell in Oxford the week before he passed away, reminiscing about the extraordinary life he’d led and the fun times we had together. I was also fortunate to share a few memories of my childhood friend at his memorial service this week ...
Nov 11, 2019 · Nik Powell (back) and Amanda Nevill (front) with the graduates of the 2013 BFI Film Academy course. Nik was a one-off, injecting a sort of rock n roll teenage exuberance to everything, his energy sweeping us all along with him. His legacy is multiple, but his transformation of the NFTS, achieved with his extraordinary and driven clarity of ...
Nik Powell was born on 4 November 1950 in London, England, UK. He was a producer and executive, known for The Crying Game (1992), Brimstone (2016) and Calendar Girls (2003). He was married to Sandie Shaw and Merrill Tomassi.
Nov 8, 2019 · November 8th 2019 at 2:15PM. Virgin Records co-founder Nik Powell has died at the age of 69. Powell had been receiving treatment for cancer. He died on Thursday (November 7) in Oxford surrounded ...
Producer, NFTS Director (2003-2017), BAFTA Trustee and Board Member (2007-2015), BAFTA Film Committee Chair, Deputy Chair and Member (2004-2016) Few people have had such a lasting impact on the British music and film industry as Nik Powell. As a music producer and co-founder of Virgin Records with Richard Branson, Simon Draper and Tom Newman, he helped establish such talent as the Sex Pistols, Genesis, the Human League, Simple Minds and Mike Oldfield, among many more.
Nick Powell. Nicholas Edward Powell (born 23 March 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a striker for Stockport County . He began his career at Crewe Alexandra, initially as a forward, making his debut at the age of 16.
We’re very sad to hear of the death of legendary film producer turned National Film and Television School director Nik Powell, aged 69. As co-founder of the legendary alternative distributors and producers Palace Pictures in the 1980s, Nik (who’d already made his mark as co-founder of Virgin Records a decade before) and his partner Stephen Woolley brought Raimi, the Coens, Jarmusch, John Waters, Wenders, Fassbinder, Jodorowsky, Herzog, Babenco, Beineix, Besson, Peter Jackson and more to ...
