Mike Leigh has written 5 shows including Ecstasy (Playwright), Goose-pimples (Playwright), Smelling a Rat (Playwright), Abigail's Party (Playwright), Two Thousand Years (Author). What awards has ...

But you’d be wrong. Fortunately for Mike Leigh, his plays are always reliably financed. But unfortunately for cinephiles, especially on the political left, who want to see directors dedicating ...

“People are saying this is ‘a film about mental health’ – a ‘post-Covid film’,” huffs Mike Leigh as he picks ... What’s your favourite television programme? Making up the little ...

For more than 50 years, Mike Leigh has been one of Britain's most prolific ... which has been nominated for a slew of awards. From early TV comedy plays like Abigail's Party and Nuts in May ...

0:37 Nick and Fiona talk about Mike Leigh’s new film, Peterloo. It’s about an 1819 pro-democracy workers’ rights rally in Manchester, UK which turned into one of the bloodiest massacres in ...

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike ... Leigh is a seven-time Oscar nominee, thirteen-time BAFTA nominee and Cannes Palme d’Or winner. Desmar is an film and TV ...

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943 ... career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterized by a gritty "kitchen sink ...