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Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.^[1]

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Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. Mike Leigh and Abbas Kiarostami are directors of Palme d'Or winners and English-language film directors.

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Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television, devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alison Chitty

Alison Chitty (born 16 October 1948) is an Olivier Award winning production designer and set and costume designer, known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh, Francesca Zambello, Peter Gill and Sir Peter Hall. Mike Leigh and Alison Chitty are Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design.

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Alison Steadman

Alison Steadman (born 26 August 1946) is an English actress.

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All or Nothing (film)

All or Nothing is a 2002 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville.

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Amazon MGM Studios

Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon launched in 2010.

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Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.

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American Madness

American Madness is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Walter Huston as a New York banker embroiled in scandal.

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Andrew Shore

Andrew Shore, (born 30 September 1952) is an English operatic baritone.

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Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev (p; born 6 February 1964) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. Mike Leigh and Andrey Zvyagintsev are directors of Golden Lion winners.

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Ang Lee

Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Mike Leigh and Ang Lee are BAFTA fellows, best Director BAFTA Award winners, directors of Golden Lion winners and English-language film directors.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

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Angry young men

The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.

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Another Year (film)

Another Year is a 2010 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.

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Antony Sher

Sir Antony Sher (14 June 1949 – 2 December 2021) was a British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. Mike Leigh and Antony Sher are English television writers and English theatre directors.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design

Best Costume Design is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize a designer who has delivered outstanding costume design in a film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Direction

The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a film director for a specific film. Mike Leigh and BAFTA Award for Best Direction are best Director BAFTA Award winners.

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BAFTA Fellowship

The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image". Mike Leigh and BAFTA Fellowship are BAFTA fellows.

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Bali

Bali (English:; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

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Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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BBC Film

BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. Mike Leigh and BBC Film are BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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Bennett Miller

Bennett Altman Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an American film director, known for directing the acclaimed films Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). Mike Leigh and Bennett Miller are Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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BFI London Film Festival

The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in London, England, in collaboration with the British Film Institute.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Blackburn

Blackburn is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England.

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Bleak Moments

Bleak Moments is a 1971 British comedy-drama film by Mike Leigh in his directorial debut.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb (stylized in all caps as BOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online.

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Boyhood (2014 film)

Boyhood is a 2014 American epic coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke.

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Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn (Bottle; born 20 February 1946) is an English actress.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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British New Wave

The British New Wave is a style of films released in Great Britain between 1959 and 1963.

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Brocket Hall

Brocket Hall is a neo-classical country house set in a large park at the western side of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England.

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Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.

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Broughton, Salford

Broughton is a suburb and district of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and film director.

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Caen

Caen (Kaem) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France.

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Camberwell College of Arts

The Camberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

The Best Actor Award (Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

The Best Actress Award (Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director

The Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène) is an award presented annually at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946. Mike Leigh and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director are Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners.

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Career Girls

Career Girls is a 1997 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh which tells the story of two women, who reunite after six years apart.

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Caro diario

Caro diario is a 1993 Italian-French semi-autobiographical comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Nanni Moretti, who also stars as himself.

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Central School of Art and Design

The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charlotte Street

Charlotte Street is a street in Fitzrovia, historically part of the parish and borough of St Pancras, in central London.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Christopher Nolan

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker. Mike Leigh and Christopher Nolan are best Director BAFTA Award winners and English male screenwriters.

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Claire Skinner

Claire Skinner (born 1965) is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom for her television career, particularly playing Sue Brockman from the BBC television series Outnumbered.

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Coriolanus

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a professional British light opera company that, from the 1870s until 1982, staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

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David Halliwell

David William Halliwell (31 July 1936, Brighouse, Yorkshire – c. 16 March 2006, Charlbury, Oxfordshire)Alan Strachan & Janet Street Porter, The Independent, 5 April 2006 was a British dramatist.

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David Lean

Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema. Mike Leigh and David Lean are BAFTA fellows, directors of Palme d'Or winners and English-language film directors.

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David Parry (conductor)

David Parry (born 23 March 1949) is an English conductor who is particularly known for his work in opera.

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David Thewlis

David Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker.

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David Thomson (film critic)

David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States, and the author of more than 20 books. Mike Leigh and David Thomson (film critic) are Alumni of the London Film School.

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Derek Malcolm

Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (12 May 1932 – 15 July 2023) was an English film critic and historian.

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Dick Pope (cinematographer)

Richard "Dick" Pope, B.S.C. (born 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated British cinematographer.

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Ealing comedies

The Ealing comedies is an informal name for a series of comedy films produced by the London-based Ealing Studios during a ten-year period from 1947 to 1957.

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East 15 Acting School

East 15 Acting School (East 15) is a British drama school in Loughton, Essex.

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Ecstasy (play)

Ecstasy is a 1979 play by British playwright Mike Leigh with a six-character cast.

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Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica (Емир Кустурица; born 24 November 1954) is a Bosnian-born Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. Mike Leigh and Emir Kusturica are Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners and directors of Palme d'Or winners.

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Endgame (play)

Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Mike Leigh and Federico Fellini are BAFTA fellows, directors of Palme d'Or winners and English-language film directors.

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Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. Mike Leigh and film4 Productions are BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.

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First Independent Films

First Independent Films was a British film distributor and home video company that replaced Vestron Video International's UK operations.

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Flann O'Brien

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 19111 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature.

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Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher is a 2014 American biographical thriller-sports film produced and directed by Bennett Miller.

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.

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Gary Oldman

Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Mike Leigh and Gary Oldman are best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners and English male screenwriters.

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George Grosz

George Grosz (born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

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Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. Mike Leigh and Golden Lion are directors of Golden Lion winners.

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Greek Tragedy (play)

Greek Tragedy is a 1989 play by British playwright Mike Leigh, about the troubled relationship of a Greek couple Alex and Calliope.

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Greg Dyke

Gregory Dyke (born 20 May 1947) is a British media executive, football administrator, journalist and broadcaster.

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Grown-Ups

Grown-Ups was a 1980 British BBC television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh.

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Habonim Dror

Habonim Dror (הַבּוֹנִים דְּרוֹר, "the builders–freedom") is the evolution of two Jewish Labour Zionist youth movements that merged in 1982.

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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008 film)

Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.

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Hard Labour (Play for Today)

"Hard Labour" is the 20th episode of third season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today.

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Hard Truths

Hard Truths is an upcoming drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who had previously collaborated with Leigh in Secrets & Lies, and Michele Austin.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Mike Leigh and Harold Pinter are Alumni of RADA, BAFTA fellows, English atheists, English film directors, English male dramatists and playwrights, English male screenwriters, English male television writers, English television directors, English television writers, English theatre directors, Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, Jewish atheists and Jewish dramatists and playwrights.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Here Is Your Life

Here Is Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) is a Swedish coming-of-age film directed by Jan Troell.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (or; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties.

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High Hopes (1988 film)

High Hopes is a 1988 British comedy drama film directed by Mike Leigh, focusing on an extended working-class family living in King's Cross, London, and elsewhere.

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History of the Jews in Russia

The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.

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How a Mosquito Operates

How a Mosquito Operates is a 1912 silent animated film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay.

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Humanists UK

Humanists UK, known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes secular humanism and aims to represent "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs" in the United Kingdom by campaigning on issues relating to humanism, secularism, and human rights.

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I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba; Я - Куба, Ya – Kuba) is a 1964 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm.

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Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma (born 28 December 1951) is a Dutch writer and editor who lives and works in the United States.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Imelda Staunton

Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 1956) is an English actress and singer. Mike Leigh and Imelda Staunton are Alumni of RADA.

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Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film

The Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film is an award presented annually at the Independent Spirit Awards to recognize the best feature films produced outside United States.

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Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards, originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards, and later as the Film Independent Spirit Awards, are awards presented annually in Santa Monica, California, to independent filmmakers.

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Interstellar (film)

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who the screenplay with his brother Jonathan.

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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.

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Jane Horrocks

Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is a British actress.

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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. Mike Leigh and Jean Renoir are directors of Golden Lion winners.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. Mike Leigh and Jean-Luc Godard are directors of Golden Lion winners.

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Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. Mike Leigh and Jeremy Corbyn are English republicans.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Jim Broadbent

James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor. Mike Leigh and Jim Broadbent are English atheists.

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John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American filmmaker and actor. Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes are directors of Golden Lion winners.

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Jonathan Lemalu

Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu (born 1976) is a New Zealand bass baritone opera singer.

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Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) is a 1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced and co-written by François Truffaut.

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Julie Walters

Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress. Mike Leigh and Julie Walters are BAFTA fellows.

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Kathy Burke

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress and comedian. Mike Leigh and Kathy Burke are English theatre directors.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Kitchen sink realism

Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society. Mike Leigh and kitchen sink realism are social realism.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Les Blair

Leslie "Les" Blair (born 23 October 1941, Manchester, England) is a BAFTA winning television, film and theatre director. Mike Leigh and Les Blair are Alumni of the London Film School and English television directors.

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Lesley Manville

Lesley Ann Manville (born 12 March 1956) is an English actress known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010), and Mr. Turner (2014).

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Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp is an English stage, film, and television actress whose roles on British television include Clocking Off (2000–2001), Bob & Rose (2001) and Afterlife (2005–2006).

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Levenshulme

Levenshulme is an area of Manchester, England, bordering Fallowfield, Longsight, Gorton, Burnage, Heaton Chapel and Reddish, halfway between Stockport and Manchester city centre on the A6.

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Life Is Sweet (film)

Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall.

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Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish actress.

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Lionsgate Canada

Lionsgate Canada (formerly known as Entertainment One, and commonly abbreviated as eOne) is a Canadian entertainment company and a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios.

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List of awards and nominations received by Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh is an English filmmaker.

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Liz Smith (actress)

Betty Smith (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, was a British character actress, known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2006).

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London Film School

London Film School (LFS) is a film school in London, United Kingdom, and is situated in a converted brewery in Covent Garden, London, neighbouring Soho, a hub of the UK film industry.

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Loughton

Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the metropolitan and urban area of London, England.

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Loves of a Blonde

Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky), also known as A Blonde in Love, is a 1965 Czechoslovak romantic comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman that follows a young woman, Andula, who has a routine job in a shoe factory in provincial Czechoslovakia, and her attempts at forging a romantic relationship.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Mac, Birmingham

Midlands Arts Centre also known as MAC is a non-profit contemporary arts centre situated in Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

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Maigret (1960 TV series)

Maigret is a British television series made by the BBC and which – following a pilot episode broadcast in 1959 – ran for 52 episodes from 1960 to 1963.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Manchester Youth Theatre

The Manchester Youth Theatre was a youth theatre which operated in Manchester from 1966 until 2003.

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Marat/Sade

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade), usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is an English actress. Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are Alumni of RADA.

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Marion Bailey

Marion Bailey (born 5 May 1951) is an English actress.

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Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode (born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter, author and podcaster. Mike Leigh and Mark Kermode are English republicans.

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Meantime (film)

Meantime is a 1983 British comedy-drama television film directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Central Television for Channel 4.

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Michael Coveney

Michael Coveney (born 24 July 1948) is a British theatre critic.

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Michele Austin

Michele Austin is a British actress best known for her role as PC Yvonne Hemmingway on ITV's The Bill, for which she won the Screen Nation award for best television actress in 2005.

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Momentum Pictures

Momentum Pictures was a film distributor owned by Entertainment One, a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios.

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Morten Tyldum

Morten Tyldum (born 19 May 1967) is a Norwegian film director.

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Mr. Turner

Mr.

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Naked (1993 film)

Naked is a 1993 British black comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring David Thewlis as Johnny, a loquacious intellectual, philosopher and conspiracy theorist.

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Nanni Moretti

Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Mike Leigh and Nanni Moretti are Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners and directors of Palme d'Or winners.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". Mike Leigh and Noël Coward are English male dramatists and playwrights and English male screenwriters.

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Nuts in May (Play for Today)

"Nuts in May" is the 12th episode of sixth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today.

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One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.

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Operetta

Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Palme d'Or

The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Mike Leigh and Palme d'Or are directors of Palme d'Or winners.

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Pathé

Pathé (styled as PATHÉ!) is a French major film production and distribution company, owning a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Pathé Cinémas and television networks across Europe.

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Paul Jesson

Paul Jesson is an English stage, television and film actor and an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. Mike Leigh and Peter Brook are English Jews, English theatre directors and Jewish theatre directors.

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Peter Weiss

Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. Mike Leigh and Peter Weiss are Jewish dramatists and playwrights.

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Peterloo (film)

Peterloo is a 2018 British historical drama, written and directed by Mike Leigh, based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.

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Peterloo Massacre

The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819.

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Phil Daniels

Philip William Daniels (born 25 October 1958) is an English actor, musician and singer, most noted for film and television roles playing Londoners, such as the lead role of Jimmy Cooper in Quadrophenia, Richards in Scum, Stewart in The Class of Miss MacMichael, Danny in Breaking Glass, Mark in Meantime, Billy Kid in Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, DCS Frank Patterson in New Tricks, and Grandad Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.

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Philip French

Philip Neville French (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and radio producer.

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Phyllis Logan

Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, widely known for her roles as Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986–1993) and Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey (2010–2015).

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Premiere

A premiere, also spelled première, (from première, 1er) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work.

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Radio Days

Radio Days is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen.

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Ray Carney

Raymond Carney (born February 28, 1947) is an American scholar and critic, primarily known for his work as a film theorist, although he writes extensively on American art and literature as well.

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Rebecca de Pont Davies

Rebecca de Pont Davies is a British mezzo-soprano who has performed with English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, and at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, among others.

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Republicanism in the United Kingdom

Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the political movement that seeks to replace the United Kingdom's monarchy with a republic.

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Richard Linklater

Richard Stuart Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Mike Leigh and Richard Linklater are best Director BAFTA Award winners.

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Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mike Leigh and Robert Altman are best Director BAFTA Award winners, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners, directors of Golden Lion winners and directors of Palme d'Or winners.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Ronald Searle

Ronald William Fordham Searle (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, also known by its abbreviation RADA, is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio.

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Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Rupert Davies

Rupert Lisburn Gwynne Davies FRSA (22 May 191622 November 1976) was a British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon's novels.

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Ruth Sheen

Ruth Sheen is an English actress.

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Salford

Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.

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Salford Grammar School

Salford Grammar School was a grammar school for boys in Salford, founded in 1904.

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Sally Hawkins

Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress who began her career on stage and then moved into film.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Mike Leigh and Satyajit Ray are directors of Golden Lion winners.

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Secrets & Lies (film)

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.

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Shadows (1959 film)

Shadows is a 1959 American independent drama film directed by John Cassavetes about race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City.

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Shōhei Imamura

was a Japanese film director. Mike Leigh and Shōhei Imamura are directors of Palme d'Or winners.

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Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Silver Bear for Best Actress

The Silver Bear for Best Actress (Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020.

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Simon Channing Williams

Simon Channing Williams (10 June 1945 – 11 April 2009) was a British film producer.

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.

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Songs from the Second Floor

Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen) is a Swedish black comedy-drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 6 October 2000, written and directed by Roy Andersson.

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Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish actor of stage and screen.

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Stephen Woolley

Stephen Woolley (born 3 September 1956) is an English filmmaker and actor. Mike Leigh and Stephen Woolley are BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, English screenwriters, English television directors and English theatre directors.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon, commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England.

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StudioCanal UK

StudioCanal Limited is the official branch of StudioCanal in the British Isles.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Taste of Cherry

Taste of Cherry (طعمگیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.

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Television play

A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape. Mike Leigh and television play are social realism.

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Théâtre de Caen

Théâtre de Caen, 135 bd du Maréchal Leclerc, is the principle theatre and opera house of Caen, opened in 1963.

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The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut, who also co-wrote the film.

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The Box Play

The Box Play is Mike Leigh's first stage play and was developed using the process of improvisation and collaboration with his cast that was to become the hallmark of Leigh's later work.

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The Caretaker

The Caretaker is a drama in three acts by Harold Pinter.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films".

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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

The Death of Mr.

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The Eel (film)

is a 1997 film directed by Shohei Imamura and starring Kōji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, and Akira Emoto.

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The Emigrants (film)

The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) is a 1971 Swedish film directed and co-written by Jan Troell and starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund, and Pierre Lindstedt.

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The Film Programme

The Film Programme was a British film review radio programme, broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4, from 2004 to 2021, presented by Francine Stock.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)

The Gospel According to St.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hallé

The Hallé is an English symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore is an early Jacobean city comedy, written in two parts; Part 1 is a collaboration between Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, while Part 2 is the work of Dekker alone.

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The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American period biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The King's Speech

The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler.

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The Mikado

The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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The Player (1992 film)

The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own 1988 novel of the same name.

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The Return (2003 film)

The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) is a 2003 Russian coming-of-age drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and released internationally in 2004.

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The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game (original French title: La règle du jeu) is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir.

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.

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The Tree of Wooden Clogs

The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a 1978 Italian film written and directed by Ermanno Olmi.

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Theater Saarbrücken

Theater Saarbrücken, officially Saarländisches Staatstheater since 1971, is the state theatre of Saarland in its capital Saarbrücken, Germany.

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Thin Man Films

Thin Man Films is a British film production company, based in London.

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This Happy Breed (film)

This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills.

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Thomas Dekker (writer)

Thomas Dekker (– 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

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Tim Roth

Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer. Mike Leigh and Tim Roth are Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts.

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Timothy Spall

Timothy Leonard Spall (born 27 February 1957) is an English actor and presenter. Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall are Alumni of RADA.

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Tokyo Story

is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.

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Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville and Ron Cook.

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UGC (cinema operator)

UGC is a cinema operator in France and Belgium, operating 57 cinemas as of 2022.

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Unbroken (film)

Unbroken is a 2014 American biographical war drama film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson.

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Underground (1995 film)

Underground (Подземље / Podzemlje), is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Emir Kusturica, with a screenplay co-written with Dušan Kovačević.

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Unity Theatre, London

Unity Theatre was a theatre club which existed between 1936-1994, and was initially based in St Judes Hall, Britannia Street, Somers Town, London NW1.

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University of Essex

The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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Vera Drake

Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan.

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Volpi Cup for Best Actress

The Volpi Cup for Best Actress is an award presented by the Venice Film Festival.

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Vulcan Award

The CST Award for Best Artist-Technician (PRIX CST de l’Artiste Technicien) is an independent film award created in 2003.

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Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.

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Working-class culture

Working-class culture or proletarian culture is a range of cultures created by or popular among working-class people.

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Yasujirō Ozu

was a Japanese filmmaker.

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1993 Birthday Honours

The 1993 Queen's Birthday honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.

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1993 Cannes Film Festival

The 46th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1993.

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1996 Cannes Film Festival

The 49th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1996.

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2010 Cannes Film Festival

The 63rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in Cannes, France.

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2014 Cannes Film Festival

The 67th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2014.

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2019 United Kingdom general election

The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 12 December 2019, with 47,567,752 registered voters entitled to vote to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.

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61st Venice International Film Festival

The 61st annual Venice International Film Festival was the 2004 edition of the Venice International Film Festival, held between 1 and 11 September 2004.

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62nd Berlin International Film Festival

The 62nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 19 February 2012.

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75th Venice International Film Festival

The 75th Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 8 September 2018.

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83rd Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leigh

Also known as Leigh, Mike.

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