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Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot (2000), which launched the film career of Jamie Bell. His next film was The Hours , which earned Nicole Kidman her first Best Actress win at the Academy Awards .
May 3, 2024 · Daldry—at the time credited with one short film—was then unexpectedly tapped to direct Billy Elliot. The film—about a boy who finds refuge in ballet—was nominated for several Academy Awards, including best director. Daldry then helmed The Hours (2002), Hare’s adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
- Richard Pallardy
Director: The Reader. In 1989, Stephen Daldry worked as a freelance reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Literary Manager Nicholas Wright in the Scripts Department at the Royal National Theatre. In July of that year, he directed a Dadaist/expressionist production of "Judgement Day," a play by Odon von Horvath, at the Old Red Lion in London.
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Aamna Mohdin. Published October 6, 2017. Billy Elliot is a distinctly British story about dancing, labor rights, gender, class, and sexuality. But since it first burst onto screens 17 years ago,...
Billy Elliot: Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
- Stephen Daldry
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Billy Elliot is a 2000 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall. Set in County Durham in North East England during the 1984–1985 miners' strike , the film is about a working-class boy who has a passion for ballet .
Feb 12, 2003 · Stephen Daldry has followed up an acclaimed first film, Billy Elliot, with the even more fancied The Hours. The day after The Hours was nominated for nine Oscars, Daldry spoke to the...
