Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and 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 theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas Life is Sweet (1990) and Career Girls (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film Topsy-Turvy (1999), and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are the black comedy-drama Naked (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Palme d'Or-winning drama Secrets & Lies (1996) and the Golden Lion winning working-class drama Vera Drake (2004). Some of his notable stage plays include Smelling A Rat, It's A Great Big Shame, Greek Tragedy, Goose-Pimples, Ecstasy, and Abigail's Party.

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Mike Leigh (sailor)

Michael Leigh (born November 25, 1984 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in one-person (Laser) and two-person dinghy (470) classes. Representing Canada in two editions of the Olympic Games, he finished ninth in the Laser class at Beijing 2008, and then twenty-fifth in the 470 class at London 2012 with his partner Luke Ramsay. Leigh has also been training throughout his sailing career for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club under his Australian-born personal coach Joshua Chant.

Leigh made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he sailed into the ninth position in the men's Laser class with a grade of 109, missing out of the medal podium by 34 net points and surpassing Norway's Kristian Ruth by a narrow, ten-point gap based on the total score.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Leigh teamed up with skipper Luke Ramsay to challenge the men's 470 class after having achieved a berth and finishing twenty-second from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Sailing with Ramsay in the opening series, the Canadian duo posted a grade of 179 net points to earn a twenty-fifth place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.

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Famous quotes by Mike Leigh:

"I'm the opposite of parched."
"jumping out of an airplane without a parachute."
"I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and talk to anybody about real things."
"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
"There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things."
"I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life."
"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."
"The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across."
"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."
"There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned."
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Latest News for: Mike Leigh

TV tonight: fundraising bonanza Comic Relief turns 40

The Observer 21 Mar 2025
Comic Relief. Funny for Money. It’s that time of year again – the fundraising marathon returns, packed with sketches, heart-tugging stories and downright bizarre moments ... On this evidence, Leo “son of Mike” Leigh is clearly a chip off the old block ... .

David Mitchell plays your next favorite oddball detective in Ludwig

AV Club 21 Mar 2025
... played by The Pitt’s Gerran Howell), a contrast to the mostly steely relationships he has with his superiors (portrayed by Mike Leigh regular Dorothy Atkinson and the always welcome Ralph Ineson).

The Particular Joy of Watching Film Lovers Geek Out

The Atlantic 20 Mar 2025
[Read ... The directors Josh and Benny Safdie almost can’t get the words out quickly enough as they rhapsodize about Mike Leigh’s harrowing dramedy Meantime and recall how Charlie Chaplin’s silent-era masterpiece The Kid made Benny cry ... .

The Best Film of Every Year Since 1950, by Jung Freud

The Unz Review 20 Mar 2025
Mike Leigh’s NAKED is an exhibitionism of ... Like Mike Leigh’s NAKED and Oliver Stone’s NATURAL BORN KILLERS, Scorsese’s film is the closest thing he came to a cry for help.

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The Business Desk 19 Mar 2025
Leigh-based e-commerce business Huddled Group has appointed Paul Simpson and Mike Ashley ... Experienced retailer Mike Ashley, not to be confused with his namesake, the Sports Direct founder, will be a non-executive director of the AIM-listed business.

Streaming: A Real Pain and the best mismatched buddy movies

The Observer 16 Mar 2025
After two historical dramas, it’s an invigorating thrill to see Mike Leigh back in present-day London, the milieu of all his best work – and reunited with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose scorching, ...

The Electric State to Bridesmaids: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The Observer 14 Mar 2025
Pick of the week. The Electric State. In between Avengers outings, Anthony and Joe Russo dip into dystopian fiction with this sparky adventure. A cross between Spielberg’s AI ... On this evidence, Leo “son of Mike” Leigh is clearly a chip off the old block.

World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends

The Quietus 13 Mar 2025
soon we get ‘The Bends’, ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ and ‘Just’, Yorke, in his Haiwaii ’81 T-shirt, bug-eyed and snarling, jerking his head convulsively to one side like Ewen Bremner in Mike Leigh’s Naked ... ....

Bleecker Street acquires US rights to ‘Spinal Tap II’ and original 1984 cult classic

Screen Daily 12 Mar 2025
In a coup for Bleecker Street, the distributor has acquired US rights to Rob Reiner’s mockumentary sequel and the original 1984 cult classic ... Derrick J ... The company recently released Mike Leigh’s  starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste ... .

London Film School director Chris Auty on bringing the UK’s oldest film school into a new era

Screen Daily 10 Mar 2025
Key LFS alumni include directors Mike Leigh, Franc Roddam, Horace Ove, Menelik Shabazz, Daina Pusic, Chris Andrews and Koby Adom; producers Fiona Lamptey and Corin Taylor; and execs such as Film4’s ...

Mike Leigh talks 60 years of industry experience - and latest film Hard Truths

NewstalkZB 09 Mar 2025
After a career spanning 60 years, British film-maker Mike Leigh is considered the godfather of British cinema ... LISTEN ABOVE. .

Leigh way for world building

Otago Daily Times 09 Mar 2025
Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths. Photo. TNS. Director Mike Leigh’s trademark extemporising continues in his new film Hard Truths, extending to anti-pigeon devices and very specific table choices, writes Vanessa Thorpe ... .

Will Blue Nun and Ferrero Rocher ever escape the taint of naffness?

AOL 09 Mar 2025
So, alas, did the chocolates ... As the film critic David Thomson remarked of Beverley’s supposedly gauche (but now quite acceptable) chilling of a bottle of Beaujolais in Mike Leigh’s play, Abigail’s Party, “the gaffe has turned suave”. .

Glancing Back for March 5: Arcola girl seeks to cash bad checks

Journal Gazette 06 Mar 2025
100 years ago,. March 5, 1925 ... and Mrs ... C.B. Teel ... Teel ... Rep ... 83 ... Mike Leigh ... Nearly three decades after "Secret & Lies" cemented its place in cinematic history in 1996, director Mike Leigh and actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste have reunited for "Hard Truths."

Bleecker acquires horror ‘The Third Parent’ starring Rob Lowe, Crispin Glover, Roselyn Sanchez

Screen Daily 04 Mar 2025
Bleecker Street recently released Mike Leigh’s and its 2025 roster includes rom-com from Andrew Ahn on April 18; Fall festival hit starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray opening in New York on March 28 ...

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