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    English writer and director

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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 ...

  2. www.imdb.com › name › nm0005139Mike Leigh - IMDb

    Mike Leigh is an acclaimed English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He is known for his realistic and improvised films, such as Naked, Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Mr. Turner, and his distinctive aesthetic and style.

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    • Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
  3. Sep 27, 2021 · A new edition of Faber’s Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh is available from 7 October. BFI celebrate Leigh’s work with a complete film season at BFI Southbank from 18 October to 30 November, plus UK ...

  4. May 3, 2024 · Mike Leigh (born February 20, 1943, Salford, Lancashire, England) is a British writer and director of film and theatre, known for his finely honed depictions of quotidian lives and for his improvisational rehearsal style. Leigh studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the early 1960s, but his interest in writing and ...

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  5. Feb 15, 2023 · Untitled Mike Leigh 2023 is the follow-up to Leigh’s 2018 period epic Peterloo, his biggest and boldest film in his 50 years of work as a director and a film exploring the events surrounding the ...

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  7. May 31, 2022 · The British director talks about his career-spanning retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center and his unique method of creating films about life. He reveals how he works with actors, avoids messages and political speeches, and explores themes such as adoption and abortion.

  8. 00:57. Mike Leigh at the BBC Teaser. 19:20. 1:46:40. 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 ...

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