Jon Blair

**Jon Blair**, CBE, marubucin Burtaniya ne ɗan Afirka ta Kudu, mai shirya fina-finai, kuma darektan fina-finan, wasan kwaikwayo, da wasan kwaikwayo.

## Tarihin rayuwa
An haifi Jon Blair a Afirka ta Kudu. An rubuta shi a cikin sojojin Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 1966 amma ya zaɓi ya gudu zuwa Ingila. Daga cikin kyaututtuka da yawa ya lashe kyaututtaka huɗu na firaministan a fagen sa: Oscar, Emmy (sau biyu), Kyautar Kyautattun Ayyuka ta Ƙungiyar Kasa da Kasa da Kyautar Kwalejin Burtaniya. An nada shi Kwamandan Order of the British Empire (CBE) a cikin girmamawar ranar haihuwar 2015 don hidimomi ga fim. A shekara ta 1994 an ba Blair digirin digirin girmamawa daga Kwalejin Richard Stockton ta New Jersey saboda gudummawar da ya bayar ga wayar da kan jama'a game da haƙƙin ɗan adam ta hanyar aikin fim dinsa.

A shekara ta 2003 Blair ya yi aiki a matsayin farfesa mai ziyara a Stockton yana koyar da darasi kan binciken batutuwan duniya na ainihi ga ƙungiyar ɗaliban horo na shekara ta ƙarshe.

## Hotuna
Anne Frank Remembered, wanda Blair ya rubuta, ya samar kuma ya ba da umarni, ita ce ta lashe lambar yabo ta Kwalejin don Bayanan Bayanai (*Oscar*), da kuma Emmy na Duniya, CableACE, Kyautar Kyautar Kyautattun Ayyuka ta Ƙungiyar Bayanai ta Duniya, Kyautar Masu sauraro a Bikin Fim na Duniya na Amsterdam (IDFA), Kyautar Jury a Bikin Fasaha na Hamptons da Gold Plaque a bikin Fim na Chicago tare da kyaututtuka don gyarawa da fim a bikin Fasaha na New York. An kuma nuna shi a bikin fina-finai na kasa da kasa na Melbourne, Montreal da Toronto (duk wadanda ba na gasa ba). An rarraba fim din a cikin wasan kwaikwayo a Burtaniya, Arewacin Amurka da Ostiraliya.

Blair shine wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Kwalejin Burtaniya don Mafi kyawun Bayani don fim dinsa na 1983, *[[Schindler (film)|Schindler]]*, wanda ya riga ya wuce fasalin Steven Spielberg da shekaru 10 kuma Spielberg ya yi amfani da shi sosai a matsayin hanyar bincike.  Dirk Bogarde ne ya ba da labarin *Schindler* kuma Blair ne ya rubuta, ya samar kuma ya ba da umarni.A cikin 2019, ya sake sakin *Schindler* a cikin babban ma'ana tare da Ben Kingsley a matsayin mai ba da labari. 

Kwanan nan Blair ya lashe lambar yabo ta Gold Nymph na bikin talabijin na Monte Carlo na 2022 don Mafi kyawun Fim na Harkokin Kasuwanci na Yanzu don fim dinsa na Navalny - Mutumin Putin Ba zai iya Kashewa ba wanda Guardian ya ce "tsoro da wauta suna da ban sha'awa don sarari a cikin wannan fim mai ban sha'awar". *Jaridar Daily Telegraph* ta kira shi "fim ne mai ban mamaki kuma mai ban sha'awa" yayin da The Sunday Telegraph ta ce "fim ne da ke cike da mugunta".

Tsakanin Janairu 2011 da Yuli 2013 Blair ta kasance mai kula da manyan jerin shirye-shirye da kuma takardun shaida na musamman ga mai watsa shirye-shiryen Al Jazeera English. A ƙarshen 2011 ya ƙara taƙaitaccen Tattaunawa a cikin fayil dinsa. A lokacin da yake Al Jazeera ya ba da umarni kuma ya samar da jerin shirye-shirye da jerin shirye'shirye guda ɗaya tare da ƙirƙirar sabbin tsarin shirye-shiryen tattaunawa. A matsayinsa na Babban Mai gabatarwa na Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark, wanda May Ying Welsh ya jagoranta don Al Jazeera, Jon ya lashe lambar yabo ta Robert F Kennedy Journalism, lambar yabo ta Amnesty International Media, lambar yabo ce ta Ƙungiyar 'Yan Jarida ta Burtaniya, lambar yabo ga George Polk don Jarida, da kuma lambar yabo ta Scripps Howard Foundation Jack R Howard, kuma an zabi shi don Kyautar Kwalejin Burtaniya da Kyautar Royal Television Society. A cikin 2012 an nemi Blair ya kirkiro tsarin da kuma ba da umarni ga jerin shirye-shirye masu mahimmanci da kuma shirye-shiryen shirye-shiryenta guda ɗaya don sabon tashar Amurka ta Al Jazeera kuma a cikin wannan damar ya ba da umarnin wasu sanannun masu yin fina-finai na Amurka don yin jerin shirye-aikace da jerin da za a nuna a nuna a cikin 2014.

Kafin ya shiga Al Jazeera, fim din Blair mai suna Dancing with the Devil ya fara ne a bikin Silverdocs a Amurka a watan Yunin 2009 kuma ya fara fitowa a Latin Amurka a Bikin Rio, bikin fina-finai na Rio de Janeiro a watan Oktoba 2009. Peter Bradshaw na *[[The Guardian]]* ya bayyana Dancing with the Devil a matsayin "mai ban sha'awa sosai",  yana nuna yakin jini tsakanin shugabannin miyagun ƙwayoyi da 'yan sanda a Rio de Janeiro inda fiye da mutane 1000 ke mutuwa a kowace shekara.

A cikin 2007 da farkon 2008, Blair ya yi Ochberg's Orphans for Rainmaker Films, game da balaguron 1921 na Isaac Ochberg wanda ya ceci kusan marayu 200 daga rushewar Rasha bayan juyin juya hali. An sanya fim din a cikin jerin sunayen Oscar don gajeren takardun shaida.

A watan Agustan shekara ta 2007 Blair ya kammala Murder Most Foul wani fim na minti 75 don More 4 game da aikata laifuka a Afirka ta Kudu tare da tsohon dan wasan Shakespeare na Afirka ta Kudu, Sir Antony Sher .

A shekara ta 2006, Blair ta samar kuma ta ba da umarnin jerin shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo na BBC1, Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy . A shekara ta 2005 Jon ya yi shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo na awa daya don Discovery Networks Turai a cikin jerin *Zero Hour*, game da bam din Oklahoma da makircin kashe Paparoma John Paul II. Kafin wannan ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Mai gabatarwa don Discovery na watanni takwas. 

A cikin 2003-04, ya samar da jerin sa'o'i huɗu - wanda ya samar, ya rubuta kuma ya ba da umarni 3 - Reporters at War, tarihin farko na rahoton yaƙi, wanda ke nuna wasu daga cikin shahararrun manema labarai na yaƙi na Amurka da Burtaniya a cikin shekaru. Jerin ya lashe Emmy a Amurka don Mafi kyawun Shirye-shiryen Tarihi. Shirin bude fasalinsa na tsawon jerin ya lashe lambar yabo ta Broadcasting Press Guild don mafi kyawun shirin tashar tashar 2003 kuma an zabi shi don Kyautar watsa shirye-shirye mafi kyawun tashar 2003/4, tare da karɓar Mention mai daraja a Banff. Jerin ya kuma sami lambar yabo ta zinariya a bukukuwan New York .  

Bayan wani shirin a kan Bin Laden: Early Years for Channel Four bayan 11 Satumba 2001, a 2002 ya kasance mai samar da jerin, da kuma darektan da marubucin abubuwa biyu na jerin kashi huɗu na The Age of Terror . Jerin da 3BM Television ta yi ya sami yabo mai mahimmanci ciki har da gabatarwa na Ƙungiyar Bayanai ta Duniya da kuma lashe kyautar watsa shirye-shirye don Mafi kyawun Shirin Multi-Channel na 2002. An kuma zabi jerin don Kyautar Bayani ta Banff . 

Har ila yau, a cikin 2002, Blair ya samar, ya rubuta, ya ba da umarni kuma ya ba da labarin The Meyssan Conspiracy, game da ka'idar makirci ta 9/11, don Channel Four Science sannan kuma saurin juyawa na musamman, kuma don Channel Four, akan fashewar Bali. Ya kuma ba da gudummawa ga The Times Special Supplement a ranar tunawa da bala'in 11 ga Satumba. 

A matsayinsa na furodusa / darektan a shirye-shiryen talabijin na Burtaniya Tonight, This Week da TV Eye, Blair ya rufe labarun siyasa da tattalin arziki na cikin gida da na kasashen waje ciki har da shirin farko game da tashin hankali na Soweto na 1976 don talabijin ta Burtaniya, Babu Crisis!*Babu Rikicin!*, da kuma ɗaukar yaƙe-yaƙe a Gabas ta Tsakiya, Cambodia da Angola. A matsayinsa na wakilin yaki / marubucin ya ba da gudummawa ga The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Economist da The New York Times . Ya kuma kasance mai nazarin littafi ga *[[Los Angeles Times]]* .

Bayan ya kirkiro daya daga cikin kamfanonin samar da kayayyaki masu zaman kansu na farko a Ingila tare da Spitting Image Productions, Blair ya kafa kamfaninsa, Jon Blair Films, a 1987. Shirin farko na kamfanin shine shirin da aka samar tare da BBC1 wanda Jon ya samar, ya ba da umarni kuma ya rubuta, *[[Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?|Shin kuna nufin Har yanzu akwai Cowboys na Gaskiya?]]*. Yana ba da labarin shekara guda a rayuwar ƙaramin garin shanu a Wyoming inda iyayen 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Glenn Close ke zaune yanzu. Robert Redford ne ya ba da labarin fasalin fasalin.

Daga nan Blair ya rubuta kuma ya samar da wani wasan kwaikwayo na Channel Four, The Kimberley Carlile Inquiry bisa ga binciken Louis Blom-Cooper game da yanayin da ke kewaye da wannan mummunar shari'ar cin zarafin yara. Fitarwar ta fito da Julie Covington, Brian Cox, Kenneth Cranham, Daniel Day-Lewis, Trevor Eve, Alan Howard, Anna Massey, Diana Quick, Zoe Wanamaker, da sauransu.

Sauran shirye-shiryen sun haɗa da misali na farko na wani shirin da aka tsara, Thighs, Lies & Beauty, bincike kan tatsuniyoyi da gaskiyar da ke kewaye da kasuwancin kyakkyawa na BBC1; The Art of Tripping, wani shirin wasan kwaikwayo na sa'o'i 2 don Channel Four kan shan miyagun ƙwayoyi da zane-zane tare da Bernard Hill; fim na Frontline (Channel Four) wanda ke nuna labarin Jann Turner na Afirka ta Kudu wanda aka kashe mahaifinta a gabanta lokacin da take da shekaru 13, kuma a matsayin babba ta dawo Afirka ta Kudu don sake jituwa da kuma zabarta na duniya ta Kudu don ɗaukar fansawa da kuma za su sakewa da kuma Sadar Sadar Sunan Sadarwar Sadarwarsu da Sadarwarwar Sadarwa da Sadarwa ga Sadarwar

## Fim din da aka fitar da shi
Dukansu Anne Frank Remembered da Dancing with the Devil an sake su a wasan kwaikwayo, tsohon ta Sony Pictures Classics a Amurka. 

A cikin 1991 Blair ya samar kuma kamfaninsa ya yi fim din, Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray's sequence to his previous work, Swimming to Cambodia . Fim din, wanda mai ba da labari Nick Broomfield ya jagoranta, kuma aka rarraba shi a Amurka ta hanyar Fineline Features ya ƙunshi dogon magana ta Gray wanda ke ba da cikakken bayani game da gwaje-gwaje da ƙunci da ya fuskanta yayin rubuta littafinsa na farko. Laurie Anderson ne ya kirkiro waƙar sauti. Fim din ya sami babban yabo na kasancewa a kan titin Sesame a matsayin wani bangare na gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Monsterpiece, tare da babban ɗan wasan kwaikwayo da marubuci da ake kira Spalding Monster a cikin girmamawa ga Gray. Tare da karin tausayi fim din ya ƙunshi nassoshi da yawa game da tunanin Gray na kashe kansa na nutsar, don haka yana nuna mutuwar sa a shekara ta 2004, lokacin da ake zaton ya tsallake daga Staten Island Ferry a New York.

## Wasan kwaikwayo / wasan kwaikwayo
Blair ta kasance co-kafa kuma co-halicci na Spitting Image, tana aiki a matsayin furodusa sannan kuma babban furodusa har zuwa tsakiyar 1987. Ya kuma kasance babban furodusa na duk Spitting Image na musamman ga NBC da HBO a Amurka. A lokacin da yake a Spitting Image a matsayin furodusa ko babban furodusa shirin ya lashe Emmies biyu, lambar yabo ta Banff, da sauran kyaututtuka na kasa da kasa.

Blair ya samar da Dunrulin' don BBC1, wasan kwaikwayo na satirical wanda ya dogara da ra'ayinsa wanda ke nuna dangin Thatcher da ke ritaya tare da Angela Thorne da John Wells. Ya kuma yi The Stone Age na Ian Hislop da Nick Newman don BBC1 kuma ya fito da Trevor Eve . Sauran shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo sun haɗa da Packing Them In da Blue Heaven, duka biyu tare da Frank Skinner kuma duka biyu don Channel Four. Har ila yau, akwai fim din Sindy Hits Thirty, tare da Sandi Toksvig, don Channel Four.

## Gidan wasan kwaikwayo
Blair shine marubucin The Biko Inquest, wasan kwaikwayon da ya danganci binciken da aka yi a Afirka ta Kudu game da mutuwar a kurkuku na jagoran baƙar fata, Steve Biko . Wasan, wanda aka rubuta don talabijin, sannan daga baya aka daidaita shi don Kamfanin Royal Shakespeare, ya fara amfani da wasan kwaikwayo a cikin al'amuran yanzu. Blair ya ba da umarnin wasan kwaikwayo na Broadway a New York, tare da Fritz Weaver da Philip Bosco, inda ya sami yabo mai yawa kuma ya gudana na watanni huɗu.  Bayan nasarar samarwa a duniya an samar da shi a matakin London, da kuma talabijin, tare da Albert Finney. Binciken *New York Times* ya ce game da wannan samarwa cewa "ya kasance mai tasiri sosai" kuma cewa "dukan ƙungiyar suna da tabbaci sosai cewa an tilasta mana tunatar da kanmu cewa su 'yan wasan kwaikwayo ne".

An shirya wani nau'i na wasan tare da baƙar fata a Najeriya a shekarar 1979 wanda marubucin, mawaki, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo da kuma lambar yabo ta Nobel Wole Soyinka ya jagoranta. 

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