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Front Row: Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners

Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners

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Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917 and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners

Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, which he wrote and directed, and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners.

Suzannah Lipscomb (Chair of Costa Biography Award) announces the category winners of the five 2019 Costa Book Awards exclusively on Front Row and Stig talks live to the winner of the Best Biography.

Twenty years after the success of his debut film American Beauty, Sam Mendes has once again taken the top prize at the Golden Globes with his First World War epic 1917. He explains how his grandfather’s experience as a messenger on the Western Front inspired the film, which is filmed as if it’s one continuous shot. 

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