Taylor and Payne were also nominated together in 2000 for adapting "Election" and for producing "The Descendants" (with Jim Burke ... This was Linklater's first Oscar nomination of an eventual ...

The only cricketer in the Burke family had been a great-uncle, Percy Burke, who kept wicket for Kent, where Jim's father was a mechanical engineer before migrating from Bromley to New South Wales.

By the time he was twenty, Jim Burke had achieved a highly successful schoolboy batting record with Sydney Grammar, played first-grade cricket with the Manly club at fifteen, and appeared as a New ...