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Mike Leigh
Directing

Mike Leigh
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1943-02-20,Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterized by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style. His well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the comedy-drama Career Girls (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy (1999), and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are arguably Naked (1993) for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the BAFTA-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Palme d'Or winner Secrets & Lies (1996) and Golden Lion winner Vera Drake (2004). His films and stage plays, according to the critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period." Coveney further noted Leigh's role in helping to create stars – Liz Smith in Hard Labour, Alison Steadman in Abigail's Party, Brenda Blethyn in Grown-Ups, Antony Sher in Goose-Pimples, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in Meantime, Jane Horrocks in Life is Sweet, David Thewlis in Naked – and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years – including Sheila Kelley, Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Eric Richard, Julie Walters – "comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent." Ian Buruma, writing in the New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted: "It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh. Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Looking for Truffaut

7

Looking for Truffaut
2009-01-01

Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain

10

Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2025-04-06

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

6

Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021-10-20

Inside the Golden Statue

6.5

Inside the Golden Statue
1998-01-01

Cinema16: British Short Films

5.167

Cinema16: British Short Films
2003-05-05

0

Untitled 13

Her Name Was Moviola

0

Her Name Was Moviola
2024-06-14

6.2

Cannes Uncut
2023-06-12

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

8

Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982-09-04

The One and Only Mike Leigh

9

The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014-11-24

Welcome to Hollywood

4.143

Welcome to Hollywood
2000-10-27

6.3

Vittorio D.
2009-09-17

What Is Cinema?

6.5

What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06

Mike Leigh: The Conversation

0

Mike Leigh: The Conversation
2000-04-23

Scenes from A Separation

0.5

Scenes from A Separation
2018-10-04

All About 'Abigail's Party'

6.3

All About 'Abigail's Party'
2007-10-28

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

0

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020-10-12

6

Two Left Feet
1963-03-16

0

Citizen B
2025-01-17

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

0

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016-06-13

6.929

West 11
1963-10-08

4.4

The One Show
2006-08-14

The Culture Show

6.571

The Culture Show
2004-11-11

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

4.5

The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007-09-03

7.133

Maigret
1960-10-31

7

The Oscars
1953-03-19

8.5

Reel Britannia
2022-06-09

0

Square
2012-01-08

0

Le Cercle
2005-03-04

4.4

The One Show
2006-08-14

7.2

Omnibus
1967-10-13

0

Remembers…
2022-06-29

0

In Confidence
2010-01-11

British Film Forever

5.5

British Film Forever
2007-07-28