# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olly-blackburn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:46:58.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olly-blackburn"
name: "Olly Blackburn"
slug: "olly-blackburn"
description: "Olly Blackburn is an English film director and screenwriter. Born in London, Blackburn had an acting role in the 1982 short comedy film A Shocking Accident; the film won an Academy Award in 1983 for Best Short Subject. He graduated from Oxford University in 1993 where he studied history. Blackburn won a Fulbright Scholarship and pursued graduate studies in film and television at the Tisch School of the Arts. While there, his film Swallowed received New York University's Martin Scorsese Post-Production Award."
tagline: "Film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olly_Blackburn.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: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.69
  momentum:             6.510791366906474
  historical:           8.549857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085627/"
    handle:    "nm0085627"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ollyblackburn.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "أولي بلاكبيرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "اولى بلاكبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_Blackburn"
    title: "Olly Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "اولی بلکبرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_Blackburn"
    title: "Olly Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%AC%EB%A6%AC_%EB%B8%94%EB%9E%99%EB%B2%88"
    title: "올리 블랙번"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_Blackburn"
    title: "Olly Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_Blackburn"
    title: "Olly Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q628827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74436"
    title: "Olly Blackburn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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