Meerkat Manor

Name: Meerkat Manor
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2005
Duration: 24 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Bill Nighy, Stockard Channing, Sean Astin

TV 2005-09-02 24m Documentary Drama Academy Awards 7 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 3 Writers Guild of America 1 National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1

★ 7.6 / 10 · 17 votes

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing.

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Status

Ended

Runtime

24m

Seasons

Episodes

Studio

Oxford Scientific Films

Networks

Animal Planet , Animal Planet

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Links

IMDb, TVDB, Wikidata

Awards

Won 7 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 7 won · 6 nominated

1999 Best Actress Won Gwyneth Paltrow
1999 Best Director Nominated
1999 Best Supporting Actor Nominated
1999 Best Cinematography Nominated
1999 Best Film Editing Nominated
1999 Best Makeup and Hairstyling Nominated
1999 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Won Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
1999 Best Costume Design Won Sandy Powell
1999 Best Production Design Won Martin Childs
1999 Best Picture Won David Parfitt, Edward Zwick, Harvey Weinstein
1999 Best Supporting Actress Won Judi Dench
1999 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Won Stephen Warbeck
1999 Best Sound Nominated

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

1999 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won Gwyneth Paltrow

BAFTA Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

1999 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated Tom Wilkinson
1999 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won Judi Dench

Screen Actors Guild Awards 3 won

1999 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Won Gwyneth Paltrow
1999 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Won Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson
1997 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Won Antony Sher