# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bart-layton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:19:26.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bart-layton"
name: "Bart Layton"
slug: "bart-layton"
description: "Bartholomew Nicholas Layton is an English filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a documentarian, winning a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut and a nomination for Best Documentary for The Imposter (2012). He then directed the 2018 film American Animals, a hybrid documentary/docudrama film based on the Transylvania University book heist."
tagline: "British documentary filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bart_Layton_-_Crime_101.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.950449333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BartfromRaw"
    handle:    "BartfromRaw"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1717925/"
    handle:    "nm1717925"
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    title: "Bart Layton"
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    title: "بارت لايتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bart Layton"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Layton"
    title: "Bart Layton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Layton"
    title: "Bart Layton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "بارت لیتون (فیلم‌ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Layton"
    title: "Bart Layton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bart Layton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bart Layton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Bart Layton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump