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David Yates (born 8 October 1963) is an English filmmaker who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter series and the three films of its prequel series, Fantastic Beasts. His work on the Harry Potter series brought him critical and commercial success, along with accolades such as the British Academy Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing. Yates directed various short films and became a television director early in his career. His credits include the six-part political thriller State of Play (2003), for which he won the Directors Guild of Great Britain Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, the adult two-part documentary drama Sex Traffic (2004) and the Emmy Award-winning television film The Girl in the Café (2005). Yates is a founding member of Directors UK and has had a close partnership with Warner Bros. as a director and producer. Around 2022, he began working through his own production company, Wychwood Media. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Yates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
David Yates
Director
for Director in James Potter and the Memory Diamond
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It's James Sirius Potter and his siblings and cousins 1st year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WIzardry and their parents and relatives, Harry and Ginny Potter, Ron and Hermione Granger Weasley, George and Angelina Weasley, Bill and Fleur Weasley and Percy and Audrey Weasley are working for the Daily Prophet and the Ministry of Magic. Things have changed so far: Fluffy's released in the Forbidden Forest, Draco Malfoy's wife, Astoria Malfoy had been killed by new Death Eaters, Minerva McGonagall is the new Hogwarts headmistress, Neville Longbottom is the new Herbology teacher, Luna Longbottom is the new matriach, Harold Alcurn is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Susan Bones is the new Flying Lessons Instructor, Michael Corner is the new Muggle Studies Teacher, Zacharias Smith is the new Charms teacher, Ernest MacMillian is the new Potions teacher and Roger Davies is the new Transfiguration teacher, but Lily Potter I, James Potter I, Cedric Diggory, Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, Fred Weasley I, Remus Lupin, Mad Eye Moody and Nymphadora Tonks are now ghost figures just like Sir Nicholas, Moaning Myrtle and the Bloody Baron. Then 1 dark and creepy evening, a new evil wizard named Lord Keeling and an evil witch lady named Lady Delphini have arrived in the shadows of darkness and a new set of Death Eaters and Dementors and other evil critters have appeared as well. James must go on a mission quest to find the memory diamond.
