A FORMER student from Warrington has scooped a BAFTA for his work on the critically acclaimed film Control.

Matt Greenhalgh, who graduated from the University of Chester's Warrington campus in 1995, received the prestigious Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British director, writer or producer in a feature film at last week's glittering awards ceremony.

He collected the award at the Royal Opera House in London's Convent Garden for his work writing the film biopic about the life of the late Joy Division frontman, Ian Curtis.

In his acceptance speech, Matt paid tribute to the late Tony Wilson, saying: "I want to dedicate this to a guy that should be here tonight, but obviously isn't. Tony Wilson was crucial to this whole story, and crucial to me."

Based on a book by the frontman's widow, Deborah Curtis, Control has won several other awards, including the Silver Hugo Award for Best Screenplay at the Chicago Film Awards in October, and Best British Independent Film at the British Independent Film Awards.

The success of Control also saw Matt nominated for a second award at this year's BAFTA's in the Best British Film category.

Matt, no stranger to the BAFTA's was first nominated in 2002 as Best New Writer for TV series, Clocking Off.

He has also been involved with writing and directing numerous well known television programmes, such as Hollyoaks, Cold Feet and Fat Friends.