singled out at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for Firelight, with a nomination for the Golden Seashell Award and a win of the Special Prize of the Jury. 2000 turned out to be Nicholson's most impressive year to date, with acclaim for the Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator. He had nominations for the Sierra Award from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards and the Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, followed by Best Screenplay nominations from both BAFTA and Oscar. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama and literature. Books Fantasy novels Wind On Fire trilogy The Wind Singer Slaves of the Mastery Firesong Noble Warriors Trilogy Seeker (UK release 2005) Jango (UK release 2006) Noman (UK release 2007) Novels The Seventh Level, A Sexual Progress (1979) Why is this happening The Society of Others (UK release 2004) The Trial of True Love (UK release 2005) The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life (UK release 2009) Rich and Mad (UK release 2010) All The Hopeful Lovers (UK release 2010) Motherland (UK release 2013) Reckless (UK release 2014) The Lovers of Amherst (UK release 2015) Adventures in Modern Marriage (UK release 2022 Stage plays Shadowlands (1989) - Writer The Retreat from Moscow (1989) - Writer Filmography References External links Official website Fansite 1948 births Living people 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 21st-century English novelists 21st-century British short story writers 21st-century British screenwriters 21st-century English male writers English film directors English children's writers English screenwriters English male screenwriters English fantasy writers People from Royal Tunbridge Wells People educated at Downside School Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature British writers of young adult literature People from Lewes Officers of the Order of the British Empire English male dramatists and playwrights English male short story writers English short story writers English male novelists