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Bartholomew Nicholas Layton (born 1975) is an English documentary filmmaker. He is the writer and director of the films The Imposter and American Animals. Both of his parents were artists, one a sculptor and the other a painter and theatre director. Early in his life, he considered going into film or being a painter. He made his directorial debut in 2012 with the true-crime story The Imposter. It is about Frédéric Bourdin, a French man who claimed to be a missing Texas teenager. Layton won a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer for the film at the 2013 EE British Academy Film Awards. He both wrote and directed American Animals. It depicts a 2004 book heist, with fictionalised versions and interviews with real people. Among the interviewees are the original criminals behind the heist. He had initially discovered the story in a magazine. The film was picked up by MoviePass. In May 2018, he signed with the Creative Artists Agency. As of 2018, Layton is the creative director of RAW, a British production company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bart Layton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.