Filmmaker of the Year 2025
So it’s not exactly an Oscar but I’m excited to hear that I’m a double winner in the Pro Moviemaker magazine Filmmaker of the Year Awards winning the top honours in the Best Editing category for my work on the American TV show MLR Weekly and also in the Event category for my work on the Julian Spalding presents Francis Davison Incredible Art film for Goldmark Films.
The international awards are “all about shining a spotlight on the unsung heroes of filmmaking celebrating the filmmakers who don’t always have blockbuster budgets but do have jaw-dropping creativity and serious skills.”
Pro Moviemaker Filmmaker of the Year Award 2025
Pro Moviemaker Magazine
Editing Award for MLR Weekly TV Show
“Filmmakers know that it’s in the edit that the visuals and audio come together to create something special.
From the cuts, sound design and graphics, they all add to the mix.
And when you are under massive time pressure to get it all out, that takes real skill.
The winner of this category is Jonny Lewis, who edits the longest-running rugby TV show in the US, which covers the country’s professional Major League Rugby.
And he does it thousands of miles away from the action, in the UK.
As the 2024 Pro Moviemaker
Filmmaker of the Year winner, Lewis puts together game highlights, in-depth analysis and interviews with some of the biggest names in the sport - content that’s broadcast on a number of TV networks and YouTube. It’s a slick TV production, all edited in Final Cut Pro on Lewis’ Macbook Pro laptop, often against tight deadlines.”
Event Film Award for Julian Spalding presents Francis Davison Incredible Art
“This category is for the polished edits of any event that uses great camerawork and tight editing to tell a wider and more engaging tale than live streaming.
And this year’s winner is a film called Julian
Spalding Presents Francis Davison Incredible Art, shot by Jonny Lewis. For Lewis, last year’s overall winner of Filmmaker of the Year, it’s his second win in the 2025 contest alongside his gong for editing.
This short film is from a live event at the Goldmark Gallery - featuring art critic, writer, broadcaster and curator Julian Spalding giving a talk on the artwork of Francis Davison.
”These scraps of paper, magically transformed, have their place among the genuinely profound art of our times. For, to appropriate a line from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, each one of them is a fragment shored against our ruin,” says Spalding.
The shy and introverted Davison never sought the limelight. He lived to create the work, sustained by the love of his wife Margaret Mellis and the frugal life they scratched for their Suffolk smallholding.
Though much admired by artist friends in private, it was not until Spalding championed Davison’s work that the art establishment began to take notice. In 1983, Davison received a major show at London’s Hayward Gallery, which captivated and influenced many - including a young Damien Hirst.
Davison died only a year after the Hayward exhibition, and Spalding watched helplessly as the ailing Davison destroyed many of his collages in that final year of his life. This action and the quasi-anonymity of the Hayward show may have contributed to the fact that his brief moment of recognition perished with the artist himself.
The winning entry showcases a rare opportunity to see the creations of an artist who many believe should now be at the forefront of 20th-century
European art history.”