Film and Theatrical Director Mike Leigh Leigh's social-realist comedies depict British working class life. He begins work on his films without a script, piecing them together from improvisations ...

Director Mike Leigh vividly remembers the 1997 Academy Awards, where Marianne Jean-Baptiste was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in his best picture nominee “Secrets & Lies.” ...

When we first meet the title character of Vera Drake, the new Mike Leigh movie that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last month, it’s hard to imagine anyone more ordinary. She’s ...

I n watching Hard Truths, the first film from writer-director Mike Leigh since 2018’s Peterloo, it’s hard not to think of the film in conjunction with the rest of his career, and in a way, how ...

British filmmaker Mike Leigh will be feted at this year's Toronto Film Festival with the TIFF Ebert Director Award for career achievement. Leigh returns to TIFF this year for the World Premiere of ...

Mike Leigh, the veteran director of “Vera Drake,” “Another Year” and “Happy-Go-Lucky,” will be honored at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival with its Career Achievement Golden Bee Award.

Hard Truths can also be read as a film in which post-lockdown fears borne of extended social isolation combine with post-austerity fury at the state of the nation. Leigh is open to these readings. But ...

British filmmaker Mike Leigh will be feted at this year’s Toronto Film Festival with the TIFF Ebert Director Award for career achievement. The announcement was made this morning by TIFF head ...

Mike Leigh has directed 15 feature films over 5 decades with a unique style of immersing his actors in the creative ... Elizbeth HymesAssociate Director, Video Talent: Meredith JudkinsCamera ...

Zurich Film Festival: Mike Leigh to Receive Honor. Zurich will screen a retrospective of the British director's work, which includes 'Vera Drake,' 'Secrets and Lies' and, most recently, 'Mr. Turner.' ...

Director Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste discuss their reunion movie Hard Truths at ... It seemed a good idea to get together the ingredients to explore what we have in this film ...

Mike Leigh worked as a BBC film director for 12 years during the 1970s and 80s - but he's delivered a damning verdict about his former employer. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.