Mike Leigh Articles

Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Moulin Rouge! DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1990s: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman 2000 DGA Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous AMPAS Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot DGA/AMPAS Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott, Gladiator Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich   2001 DGA Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge! Christopher Nolan, Memento [...]

Mike Leigh will chair the jury of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. Among the 68-year-old filmmaker's best known efforts are the Oscar-nominated Secret and Lies, New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winner Topsy-Turvy, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year, and Happy-Go-Lucky. "Over the course of his nearly 40-year film career, Mike Leigh has distinguished himself as one of the most outstanding film-makers of auteur cinema [...]

Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake VERA DRAKE Review: Part I Elsewhere, the director imbues Vera Drake with a somewhat artificial flavor. True, the film's 1950s working-class environment looks real — cramped homes and ugly clothes — but Leigh, as usual, overdoes the unattractiveness of his characters. His laborers have bad teeth and funny faces, and several of [...]

VERA DRAKE (2004) Direction and screenplay: Mike Leigh Cast: Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wight, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Eddie Marsan, Ruth Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Chris O'Dowd, Heather Craney Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Vera Drake Director Mike Leigh's touches are found everywhere in Vera Drake, from the film's drab, working-class social setting to the somewhat bizarre characters that inhabit that [...]