medium - one of the finest pieces of television drama I have ever seen. ... I had the experience of watching, not Ian Holm playing J M Barrie, but Barrie himself ... the definitive recreation of J M Barrie in dramatic terms.' Nancy Banks-Smith wrote in The Guardian: 'Andrew Birkin's convincing and compelling biographical trilogy is most beautifully and sensitively done. ... There is a nice ambivalence about The Lost Boys as there is about The Turn of the Screw, an ambiguity and sense of menace. A delightful frightfulness. The rich sets, the allusive, elusive script which always suggests more than it says. ... The Lost Boys is a gift, a present, a parabola of pleasure to me, something to be unwrapped and tasted and rewrapped and saved until later.' Michael Church wrote in The Times: 'Andrew Birkin's superb and haunting trilogy ... something quite out of the ordinary ... Desire, devotion, disease and death loom out in disturbingly intimate close up. ... Ian Holm, physically Barrie to the life, rules absolutely.' Chris Dunkley wrote in the Financial Times, 'It is only very rarely that a television drama comes along in which every constituent manages to provide a flawless contribution. The Lost Boys has been such a production.' The film was cited in several annual round-ups, including Benny Green in Punch: 'Best Original Drama: The Lost Boys, which advanced from competence to brilliance to deep compassion and mastery of touch, and which, for intensity of characterization and economy of writing, was a masterpiece of the televisual form.' The BBC's Director-General Sir Ian Trethowan called it 'a landmark in television drama'. The BBC published the full scripts when the series was repeated in 1980, The Spectator calling them 'a priceless addition to a corpus of literature of coherent television drama.' Awards Won: 1979 BAFTA (Best Television Lighting, Sam Barclay) Nominated: 1979 BAFTA (Best Actor, Ian Holm) Nominated: 1979 BAFTA (Best Film Cameraman, Elmer Cossey) Nominated: 1979 BAFTA (Best VTR Editor, Charles Huff) Won: 1979 Royal Television Society (Best Design, Barry Newbery) Won: 1979 Royal Television Society (Best Performance, Ian Holm) Won: 1979 Royal Television Society (Best Writer, Andrew Birkin) See also List of works based on Peter Pan References External links The Lost Boys screenplay 1978 films Llewelyn Davies family Biographical films about writers British biographical films Cultural depictions of J. M. Barrie 1970s British films