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Guy Hibbert
2026-11-15 03:14:35 · The Daily Ledger
Guy Hibbert is a British screenwriter and playwright.
He has won four BAFTA TV awards, including Best Writer for the 2009 film Five Minutes of Heaven. This film was premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival, where Hibbert won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award.

Five Minutes of Heaven also won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, given for work promoting peace and reconciliation in Ireland.

His script for Eye In The Sky won Best Screenplay at Evening Standard British Film Awards 2017.

Hibbert started his writing career as a playwright. His play On The Edge was the winner of the John Whiting Award in 1985.
Other awards include the Mental Health Media Award in 1998 and in 2004 and the Joan Coleman Award in 2013 for his contribution to the understanding of mental health.
Hibbert lives in London with his wife, poet and translator Meifu Wang. He has one daughter, Celeste Hibbert, and one grandchild, Minette Hibbert-Fraser.
Filmography
Master of the Marionettes (1989) writer
Aimee (1991) – writer
Bad Girl (1992) – writer
Nice Town (1992) – writer
Saigon Baby (1995) – writer
Prime Suspect - "Scent of Darkness" (1997) – writer
No Child Of Mine (1997) – writer
Shot Through the Heart (1998) – writer
The Russian Bride (2001) - writer and executive producer
May 33rd (2004) – writer and executive producer
Omagh (2004) – co-writer with Paul Greengrass
Who Gets the Dog? (2007) – writer
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) – writer
Blood and Oil (2010) – writer
Complicit (2013) – writer and executive producer
One Child (2014) - writer and executive producer
Eye in the Sky (2015) – writer and executive producer
A United Kingdom (2016) - writer and executive producer
References
External links
Guy Hibbert at the British Film Institute
1950 births
Living people
British male screenwriters
Sundance Film Festival award winners
Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize recipients
writers from Oxford