Editing This Sporting Life (section)

===Background===
''This Sporting Life'' was Anderson's first feature film as director, though he had made numerous short documentaries in the previous fifteen years, and even [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film|won an Oscar]] for 1954's ''[[Thursday's Children]]''. The film had first been discussed by [[The Rank Organisation]] as a possible project for [[Joseph Losey]], and then [[Karel Reisz]], who, reluctant to direct another film with a similar setting and theme to ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)|Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'' (1960), suggested that Anderson direct it, with himself serving as producer.