Mike LEIGH
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Biografie
Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Camberwell and Central Art Schools in London, and at the London Film School.
Across his career, Mike Leigh’s films have collected 25 BAFTA nominations and seven wins, as well as 16 Oscar nods and 2 wins. His actors and actresses have garnered nods for their performances, and he has been personally Oscar-nominated seven times and scooped three BAFTAs personally, as well as their highest honor, the BAFTA Fellowship, in 2015.
Vera Drake (2004) won Venice Film Festival‘s Golden Lion for Best Film, and his films have been in Competition at Cannes five times, winning the Palme d’Or for Secrets & Lies (1996), the Best Director prize for Naked (1993) and an Ecumenical Jury special mention for Another Year (2010).
Filmografie
- Hard Truths 2024
- Peterloo 2018
- Mr. Turner 2014
