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Michael Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer. [1] He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work in Leaving Las Vegas (1995). Figgis was the founding patron of the independent filmmakers' online community Shooting People.
Mike Figgis. Director: Leaving Las Vegas. When young he lived with his four brothers and sisters in a council house in Newcastle Upon Tyne then when 14 the family moved to Thornyburn near Bellingham where he made his first film, 'Redheugh'.
Mike Figgis. Director: Leaving Las Vegas. When young he lived with his four brothers and sisters in a council house in Newcastle Upon Tyne then when 14 the family moved to Thornyburn near Bellingham where he made his first film, 'Redheugh'.
May 21, 2024 · Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. It’s called Megadoc.
Mike Figgis. Highest Rated: 91% Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Lowest Rated: 12% Cold Creek Manor (2003) Birthday: Feb 28, 1948. Birthplace: Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK.
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the semi-autobiographical 1990 novel of the same name by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death.
Feb 9, 1996 · Leaving Las Vegas: Directed by Mike Figgis. With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis. Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.
Figgis, Mike (1948-) Director, Writer, Composer, Actor Born in Carlisle on 28 February 1948, Michael Lawrence Dundus Figgis was brought up in Nairobi until the age of eight, when his family's return to England took him to Newcastle.
Apr 28, 2000 · After confounding critics and audiences alike with his 1998 experiment “ The Loss of Sexual Innocence ,” Figgis — the director, writer, musician and most of all, it seems, conductor —...
It's the morning after the world premiere of "Leaving Las Vegas" at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and I am still under the spell of this remarkable film. It stars Nicolas Cage as a man who loses his family and his job, and moves to Las Vegas with the intention of drinking himself to death.