equally absorbing and appalling look at British politics and society". Grant received Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award, British Academy Television Award, and Critics Choice Award nominations for his performance while Whishaw earned a Emmy, and BAFTA win. Personal life In 1968, Frears married Mary-Kay Wilmers, with whom he had two sons, Sam and Will Frears (a stage and film director). Frears left Wilmers while she was pregnant with their second son Will. They lived on Gloucester Crescent in Camden Town. The couple divorced in the early 1970s. Nina Stibbe, the live-in nanny that Wilmers hired in the early 1980s, wrote letters home that described the North London literati life; these were compiled, published, and adapted into the 2016 TV series Love, Nina. Early in his career, Frears made a programme featuring the band the Scaffold, and he is name-checked ("Mr Frears had sticky-out ears...") in their hit song "Lily the Pink". Frears lived in London with Anne Rothenstein and their two children. Political views A convinced republican, in April 2015, Frears was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election. In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Frears signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election. Filmography Film Television Awards and honours Over his career, Frears has amassed numerous awards and nominations, including two Academy Award nominations, four Primetime Emmy Award nominations (one win), a Golden Globe Award nomination, and 17 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award nominations (three wins). In 1990, Frears earned his first Academy Award nomination for directing the film The Grifters. In 2006, he earned his second nomination for The Queen. At the Primetime Emmy Awards, he was nominated for Fail Safe (2000), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), and A Very English Scandal (2019), before winning for State of the Union (2019). He has also been acknowledged by the Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Toronto film festivals. Honors include: 2006: Golden Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement at Zurich Film Festival 2009: Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2014: Golden Duke for Lifetime Achievement of the 5th Odessa International Film Festival Honorary Associate of London Film School References External links Stephen Frears discusses whether his biopics are fact or fiction in The Art Of Life 1941