Ewan McGregor Collar" (1993). Not long afterwards, he starred in the BBC adaptation of "Scarlet and Black" (also 1993) with a young Rachel Weisz, and made his film debut in Bill Forsyth's "Being Human" (1994). For his role in the thriller "Shallow Grave" (also 1994), he won an Empire Award. The film was his first collaboration with director Danny Boyle. His international breakthrough followed with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Boyle's "Trainspotting" (1996), an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name. McGregor played the male romantic lead role in the British film "Little Voice" (1998). He was
Nightwatch (1997 film) point to the real perpetrator. "Nightwatch" received negative reviews by critics. The film holds both a 6.2/10 rating on IMDb based on16,268 reviews and 28% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 29 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C-" on an A+ to F scale. Nightwatch (1997 film) Nightwatch is a 1997 American horror-thriller film directed by Ole Bornedal and starring Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin and Nick Nolte. It was written by Bornedal and Steven Soderbergh. It is a remake of the Danish film "Nattevagten" (1994), which was also directed by Bornedal.