FILM DIRECTOR

Mike Leigh

1943 - Today

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Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television. He has received numerous accolades, including prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, three BAFTA Awards, and nominations for seven Academy Awards. He also received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1993 Birthday Honours for services to the film industry.Leigh studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Leigh has received more than 2,159,034 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Mike Leigh is the 516th most popular film director (down from 424th in 2019), the 1,903rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,668th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mike Leighs by language

Over the past year Mike Leigh has had the most page views in the with 269,430 views, followed by French (19,439), and Italian (14,891). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (107.25%), Belarusian (94.87%), and Simple English (46.65%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mike Leigh ranks 516 out of 2,041. Before him are Richard Boleslawski, Ted Kotcheff, Sam Wood, Clarence Brown, Fernando Solanas, and Boris Barnet. After him are Néstor Almendros, James Wong, Luis García Berlanga, Claude Autant-Lara, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Peter Yates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Mike Leigh ranks 232. Before him are Marika Green, Stanley Fischer, Jimmy Wang Yu, Sani Abacha, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, and Nolan Bushnell. After him are Rashid Sunyaev, Patrick Demarchelier, Maurice Bishop, Valery Nepomnyashchy, Angélica María, and Osamu Dezaki.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mike Leigh ranks 1,903 out of 8,785. Before him are Billy Wright (1924), Mike Rutherford (1950), Catherine Ashton (1956), Harry Redknapp (1947), John Hume (1937), and Rædwald of East Anglia (550). After him are Ian Hill (1952), James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Young (1741), Ronnie Biggs (1929), Julian Sands (1958), and Louise, Princess Royal (1867).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Mike Leigh ranks 33. Before him are Michael Anderson (1920), David Yates (1963), Ken Russell (1927), Derek Jarman (1942), John Badham (1939), and Michael Apted (1941). After him are Peter Yates (1929), Ken Annakin (1914), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Hugh Hudson (1936), George Albert Smith (1864), and David Byrne (1952).

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Filmography

Naked
Director
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Sep 14o 19937.354 / 10
Mr. Turner
Director
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Oct 31o 20146.539 / 10
Secrets & Lies
Director
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia. At first Cynthia denies the claim, but she eventually admits to birthing Hortense as a teenager, and the two begin to bond. However, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a family barbecue, Cynthia's already tense relationship with her family becomes even more complicated.
May 24o 19967.544 / 10