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- Mike Leigh OBE FRSL (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.
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Mike Leigh OBE FRSL (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television. He has received numerous accolades, including prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, three BAFTA Awards, and nominations for seven Academy Awards.
Oct 23, 2024 · Mike Leigh, British writer and director of film and theater, known for his finely honed depictions of quotidian lives and for his improvisational rehearsal style. His notable movies include Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, and Vera Drake. Learn more about Leigh’s life and career.
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Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique.
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Oct 14, 2024 · Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste and director Mike Leigh have reunited for a hard-hitting new film, nearly three decades after they first worked together. Hard Truths, about an irritable...
Sep 27, 2021 · Mike Leigh is the great humanist of British cinema. His tragicomic portraits of working-class lives have seen him pick up a Palme d’Or, a Golden Lion, three BAFTA wins and seven Oscar nominations. He began his career on the stage, making his feature debut with the aptly titled Bleak Moments in 1971.
Sep 27, 2021 · Interview. ‘You have to be a control freak’: Mike Leigh on 50 years of film-making. Zoe Williams. At 78, with three Baftas and a Palme d’Or under his belt, the director still sees himself as an...
Nov 10, 2021 · Although Mike Leigh remains most associated with his depictions of modern British life, his four historical dramas stand as some of the richest films he’s made in the last two decades, offering ambitious and rewarding takes on varied aspects of the nation’s past.
