Tom Kingsley

Tom Kingsley is an English TV and film director. He is best known for directing Ghosts and three-time BAFTA-winning Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats. His work has been nominated for the 2012 BAFTAs,^[1] the 2011 British Independent Film Awards,^[2] the Guardian First Film Award,^[3] the Evening Standard Film Awards,^[4] and the Raindance Film Festival.^[5]

Kingsley was educated at Eton College, a boarding independent school for boys in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied English,^[6] and was a member of the comedy group Footlights, directing the Footlights Revue "Wham Bam" at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe.^[7]

In 2008, Kingsley worked as a runner at Blink, the Soho-based production company, after sending them a DVD containing several of his short films.^[8] Over the next year, he began directing music videos and commercials.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}

In 2011 Kingsley and Will Sharpe released their low-budget feature-length film Black Pond.^[15] The film led to Kingsley and Sharpe being nominated for Outstanding Debut at the Baftas, and winning Most Promising Newcomer(s) at the Evening Standard Film Awards.^[16] It was listed as a film of the year in the New Statesman and the Financial Times.^[17][18]

In 2022, Kingsley directed Wild Blue Yonder, the second of the 60th anniversary specials for Doctor Who, screened in December 2023.^[19]

Film

Television