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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.
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.
May 25, 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.
Mar 30, 2021 · Twenty-five years ago, Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies stormed the film world, winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes and later getting nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture.
Mike Leigh. Highest Rated: 97% Mr. Turner (2014) Lowest Rated: 67% Peterloo (2018) Birthday: Feb 20, 1943. Birthplace: Salford, England, UK.
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.
In the seventeen years between his first two theatrical features (1971’s BLEAK MOMENTS and 1988’s HIGH HOPES), Mike Leigh, the great humanist of British cinema, sharpened his distinctive voice and famously improvisatory process at the BBC, where he directed a string of striking, bittersweet slice...