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===Film=== The [[anti-war film|anti-war]] [[biopic]] ''[[Hedd Wyn (film)|Hedd Wyn]]'' was released in 1992. The film, which starred [[Huw Garmon]] as the poet, is based on a [[screenplay]] by [[Alan Llwyd]]. It depicts Hedd Wyn as a [[tragic hero]] who has an intense dislike of the wartime [[ultranationalism]] which surrounds him and his doomed struggle to avoid conscription. In 1993, ''Hedd Wyn'' won the Royal Television Society's Television Award for Best Single Drama. It became the first British motion picture to be nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[66th Academy Awards]] in 1993.<ref name="BFI 1">{{cite web|title=The BFI: Hedd Wyn (1992)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c1b94fb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106103224/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c1b94fb|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 January 2017|access-date=5 January 2017 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|year=2017|work=British Film Institute website}}</ref> In 1994, at the newly inaugurated [[BAFTA Cymru|BAFTA Cymru Awards]], it won in six categories: Best Director ([[Paul Turner (director)|Paul Turner]]), Best Design (by Jane Roberts and Martin Morley), Best Drama β Welsh (Shan Davies and Paul Turner), Best Editor (Chris Lawrence), Best Original Music ([[John E.R. Hardy]]) and Best Screenwriter β Welsh (Alan Llwyd).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000125/1994|title=BAFTA Awards, Wales (1994)|publisher=imdb.com|access-date=29 September 2017}}</ref>
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