question: Who was the director of the 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film for which Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne  was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying King George III?
answer: Nicholas Hytner
context: Title: King George III Museum
  Passage: The King George III Museum was a museum within King's College London, England between 1843 and 1927 which held the collections of scientific instruments of George III as well as eminent nineteenth-century scientists including Sir Charles Wheatstone and Charles Babbage.  The collection of scientific and mathematical instruments assembled by George III, after whom the museum is named, was donated to the university by Queen Victoria in 1841, and the museum was opened by Albert, Prince Consort on 1 July 1843.  The museum was located within the King's Building designed by Sir Robert Smirke.  It counted among its collections the unfinished prototype of the Difference Engine No. 1, designed by Charles Babbage, who is considered a "father of the computer".  The museum closed in 1926, and much of its collections were transferred on loan to the Science Museum, London.
  Title: Hyde Park on Hudson
  Passage: Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 British biographical historical comedy-drama film directed by Roger Michell.  The film stars Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Laura Linney as Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a cousin and childhood friend of the President.  It was based on Suckley’s private journals and diaries, discovered after her death, and fictionally dramatizes her close personal relationship with Roosevelt, and the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Roosevelt's country estate, Hyde Park.
  Title: The Madness of King George
  Passage: The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, "The Madness of George III".  It tells the true story of George III of Great Britain's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788–89.  Modern medicine has suggested that the King's symptoms were the result of acute intermittent porphyria, although this theory has more recently been vigorously challenged, most notably by a research project based at St George's, University of London, which concluded that George III did actually suffer from mental illness after all.
  Title: Regency era
  Passage: The Regency in Great Britain was a period when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent.  On the death of George III in 1820, the Prince Regent became George IV.  The term Regency (or Regency era) can refer to various stretches of time; some are longer than the decade of the formal Regency which lasted from 1811–1820.  The period from 1795 to 1837, which includes the latter part of the reign of George III and the reigns of his sons George IV and William IV, is often regarded as the Regency era, characterised by distinctive trends in British architecture, literature, fashions, politics, and culture.  The Regency era ended in 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.
  Title: Humphrey Appleby
  Passage: Sir Humphrey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO, MA (Oxon), is a fictional character from the British television series "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister".  He was played originally by Sir Nigel Hawthorne, both on stage and in a television adaptation of the stage show by Henry Goodman in a new series of "Yes, Prime Minister".  In "Yes Minister", he is the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Administrative Affairs (a fictional department of the British government).  In the last episode of "Yes Minister", "Party Games", he becomes Cabinet Secretary, the most powerful position in the service and one he retains during "Yes, Prime Minister".  Hawthorne's portrayal won the BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance four times: 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987.
  Title: Neil Loring
  Passage: Sir Neil Loring ("Loryng", "Loringe" etc., Neel "alias" Nigel, Latin: "Nigellus") (c. 1320 – 18 March 1386), KG, was a medieval English soldier and diplomat and a founding member of the Order of the Garter, established by King Edward III in 1348.  The central character in two historical novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sir Nigel" and "The White Company", is loosely based on Neil Loring.
  Title: The Madness of George III
  Passage: The Madness of George III is a 1991 play by Alan Bennett.  It is a fictionalised biographical study of the latter half of the reign of George III of the United Kingdom, his battle with mental illness and the inability of his court to handle his condition.  It was adapted for film in 1994 as "The Madness of King George".
  Title: Empire Award for Best Actor
  Passage: The Empire Award for Best Actor is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine "Empire" to honor an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry.  The Empire Award for Best Actor is one of five ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 1st Empire Awards ceremony in 1996 (the others being Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film and Best British Film) with Nigel Hawthorne receiving the award for his role in "The Madness of King George".  Winners are voted by the readers of "Empire" magazine.
  Title: Nigel Hawthorne
  Passage: Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'CBE', '4': "} (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor.  He portrayed Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom "Yes Minister" and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, "Yes, Prime Minister".  For this role, he won four BAFTA TV Awards for Best Light Entertainment Performance.  He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying King George III in "The Madness of King George" (1994).  He later won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor, for the 1996 series "The Fragile Heart".  He was also an Olivier Award and Tony Award winner for his work in the theatre.
  Title: Sir Nigel
  Passage: Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356, by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and written in 1906.  It is the background story to Doyle's earlier novel "The White Company", and describes the early life of that book's hero Nigel Loring, a knight in the service of King Edward III in the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
citations: The Madness of King George Nigel Hawthorne