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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh

Birthday: 1943-02-20 | Place of Birth: Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterized by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style. His well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the comedy-drama Career Girls (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy (1999), and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are arguably Naked (1993) for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the BAFTA-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Palme d'Or winner Secrets & Lies (1996) and Golden Lion winner Vera Drake (2004). His films and stage plays, according to the critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period."  Coveney further noted Leigh's role in helping to create stars – Liz Smith in Hard Labour, Alison Steadman in Abigail's Party, Brenda Blethyn in Grown-Ups, Antony Sher in Goose-Pimples, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in Meantime, Jane Horrocks in Life is Sweet, David Thewlis in Naked – and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years – including Sheila Kelley, Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Eric Richard, Julie Walters – "comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent."  Ian Buruma, writing in the New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted: "It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh. Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today   2020

Sull'uscita: 
2020

Punteggio: 7.5

Generi: 
Documentary
Cast: 
Martina Laird  /  Roy Battersby  /  Richard Eyre
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?   2013

Sull'uscita: 
2013

Punteggio: 6.1

Generi: 
Documentary
Cast: 
Chantal Akerman  /  Robert Altman  /  David Lynch
Vittorio D.
Vittorio D.

Vittorio D.   2009

Sull'uscita: 
2009

Punteggio: 7.4

Generi: 
Documentary
Looking for Truffaut
Looking for Truffaut

Looking for Truffaut   2009

Sull'uscita: 
2009

Punteggio: 6.8

Generi: 
Documentary
Cast: 
François Truffaut  /  Jeanne Moreau  /  Mike Leigh

Acting

2013
What Is Cinema?

as    Self

2009
Looking for Truffaut

as    Self

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