Who is the English film director of The King's Speech and Les Miserables?
"Film Awards, and the 2011 Goya Award for Best European Film from the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematic Art and Science). The King's Speech The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new king relies on Logue"
"Les Misérables (2012 film) Les Misérables is a 2012 musical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and scripted by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer, based on the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, which also inspired a 1980 musical by Boublil and Schönberg. The film is a British and American venture distributed by Universal Pictures. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen. The film takes place in France during the early 19th century and"
"(2010), starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, which was met with critical acclaim. Hooper's next film was ""Les Misérables"" (2012), which featured an all-star cast led by Hugh Jackman. His 2015 film, ""The Danish Girl"", was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Hooper's work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for ""Prime Suspect"" and ""John Adams"", won one for ""Elizabeth I"", and was nominated for the British Academy (BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best Director for ""Longford"". ""The King's Speech"" won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of"
"centre Arnolfini Iain Canning Iain Canning (born 23 July 1979) is an English film producer best known for producing ""The King's Speech"" (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture, and the BAFTA awards for Best Film and Best British Film. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for ""Lion"" (2016). Iain co-founded See-Saw Films with producing partner Emile Sherman in 2008. Their offices are split between Great Britain, Australia and the USA. Canning co-founded See-Saw Films with Emile Sherman in 2008 and has produced several major films including ""Lion"", winner of two BAFTA Awards, starring"
"The Miserables The Miserables is a short film (20 minutes) directed by Benjamin Taylor and written by Alex Lipman. Released in 2010 by University of Westminster, the film was a finalist at The 38th Annual Student Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, and has been screened at festivals in the UK, USA, China, Russia, Germany and Italy. The film won Best Drama at the 2011 Royal Television Society Student Awards where the short was ""considered by the jury to be outstanding. A very good emotional script, had been creatively executed with sensitivity, flair, restraint, and imagination."" Struggling to cope with his"
"Ken Loach Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (""Poor Cow"", 1967), homelessness (""Cathy Come Home"", 1966) and labour rights (""Riff-Raff"", 1991, and ""The Navigators"", 2001). Loach's film ""Kes"" (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, ""The Wind That Shakes the Barley"" (2006) and ""I, Daniel Blake"" (2016) received the Palme d'Or at the"
"Iain Canning Iain Canning (born 23 July 1979) is an English film producer best known for producing ""The King's Speech"" (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture, and the BAFTA awards for Best Film and Best British Film. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for ""Lion"" (2016). Iain co-founded See-Saw Films with producing partner Emile Sherman in 2008. Their offices are split between Great Britain, Australia and the USA. Canning co-founded See-Saw Films with Emile Sherman in 2008 and has produced several major films including ""Lion"", winner of two BAFTA Awards, starring Dev Patel,"
"tale of female heroism in the early 19th century. Gareth Unwin Gareth Ellis-Unwin (born Gareth Unwin, 20 February 1972) is a British film producer best known for producing the 2010 film ""The King's Speech"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Bedlam Productions. Growing up in Slough, Berkshire, Unwin attended Herschel Grammar School. He worked part-time at Pinewood Studios. After graduating from Ravensbourne College, Gareth rose quickly through the ranks to be assistant director and production manager for a number of drama and documentary projects. His first feature film"
"Gareth Unwin Gareth Ellis-Unwin (born Gareth Unwin, 20 February 1972) is a British film producer best known for producing the 2010 film ""The King's Speech"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Bedlam Productions. Growing up in Slough, Berkshire, Unwin attended Herschel Grammar School. He worked part-time at Pinewood Studios. After graduating from Ravensbourne College, Gareth rose quickly through the ranks to be assistant director and production manager for a number of drama and documentary projects. His first feature film as producer, ""Exam"" (2009), earned a nomination at the"
"Stephen Frears Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director. Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including ""My Beautiful Laundrette"", ""Dangerous Liaisons"", ""High Fidelity"", ""The Queen"", ""Philomena"", and ""Florence Foster Jenkins"". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director: for ""The Grifters"" and ""The Queen"". In 2008 ""The Daily Telegraph"" named him among the 100 most influential people in British culture. Frears was born in Leicester, England. His mother, Ruth M. (""née"" Danziger), was a social worker, and his father, Russell E. Frears, was a general practitioner and accountant."
"the film officially began, with Hooper and Mackintosh serving as director and producer, and the main characters were cast later that year. Principal photography commenced in March 2012, with a budget of $61 million. Filming took place on locations in Greenwich, London, Chatham, Winchester, Bath, and Portsmouth, England; in Gourdon, France; and on soundstages in Pinewood Studios. ""Les Misérables"" held its world premiere at Leicester Square in London on 5 December 2012, and was released 25 December 2012 in the United States and 11 January 2013 in the United Kingdom. It grossed over $441 million worldwide. The film received generally"
"was filmed entirely in Mumbai with a mostly Indian cast, though with a British director (Danny Boyle), producer (Christian Colson), screenwriter (Simon Beaufoy) and star (Dev Patel)—the film was all-British financed via Film4 and Celador. It has received worldwide critical acclaim. It has won four Golden Globes, seven BAFTA Awards and eight Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Film. ""The King's Speech"", which tells the story of King George VI's attempts to overcome his speech impediment, was directed by Tom Hooper and filmed almost entirely in London. It received four Academy Awards (including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor"
"in Motion Pictures. In February 2011, he was presented with the Academy Award for Best Director, though lost the BAFTA Award for Best Direction to David Fincher. In comparing the two films, ""Variety""s Adam Dawtrey wrote, ""Hooper's 2009 film ""The Damned United"" didn't register among awards selectors, but ""King's Speech"" is a much more personal project. His Anglo-Australian parentage reflects the culture clash at the heart of the movie, and it pays off with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing drama."" Following the success of ""The King's Speech"" during the awards season, Hooper joined the 15-person board of governors at the British Film"
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"in Lombardo Italy. In 2007, he presented a piece entitled ""Do not be afraid of the life of Pope John Paul II"". He has a special devotion to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Member of Eurasian Academy (2016). Robert Hossein Robert Hossein December 1927) is a French film actor, director, and writer of Iranian and Jewish origin. He directed the 1982 adaption of ""Les Misérables"", and appeared in ""Vice and Virtue"", ""Le Casse"", ""Les Uns et les Autres"" and ""Venus Beauty Institute"". His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the ""Angélique"" series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western ""Cemetery Without"
"Les Misérables (1998 film) Les Misérables is a 1998 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, directed by Bille August. It stars Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes. As in the original novel, the storyline follows the adult life of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict (paroled following 19 years of hard labor, for stealing bread) pursued by police Inspector Javert. It was filmed at Barrandov Studios in Prague. Jean Valjean, a man arrested for stealing bread nineteen years earlier, is released on account of Mrs. Herberst, Valjeans wife. When no one is willing to"
"London Film Critics Circle Awards 2010 The 31st London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2010, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 11 February 2011. The Social Network The King's Speech ""Of Gods and Men"" • France David Fincher - ""The Social Network"" Tom Hooper - ""The King's Speech"" Aaron Sorkin - ""The Social Network"" Gareth Edwards - ""Monsters"" Colin Firth - ""The King's Speech"" Annette Bening - ""The Kids Are All Right"" Christian Bale - ""The Fighter"" Lesley Manville - ""Another Year"" Andrew Garfield - ""The Social Network"" Olivia Williams - ""The"
"Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor, who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's ""The King's Speech"" won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Identified in the late 1980s with the ""Brit Pack"" of rising, young British actors, it was not until his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Pride"
"Firth at the 83rd Academy Awards and seven BAFTA Awards (including both Best Film and Best British Film). Unwin's work on The King's Speech made him a co-recipient of the Producers Guild of America award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. In total, The King's Speech won more than 70 awards worldwide in 2010 and 2011. The King's Speech was followed by the documentary The King's Speech Revealed, which first aired on Five (in the UK) in May 2011. Bedlam had earlier co-produced the BAFTA-nominated Exam (2009 film) (2009), a feature-length thriller written and directed by Stuart Hazeldine. Bedlam has announced"
"2017. Firth added, ""I will always be extremely British (you only have to look at or listen to me)."" Interviews Further reading Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor, who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's ""The King's Speech"" won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Identified in the late 1980s with the ""Brit Pack"" of"
"Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–03) and the ""Hobbit"" trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other films include the critically lauded drama ""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994), the mockumentary film ""Forgotten Silver"" (1995), the horror comedy ""The Frighteners"" (1996), the epic monster remake film ""King Kong"" (2005), the supernatural drama film ""The Lovely Bones"" (2009), and the"
"Les Misérables (1978 film) Les Misérables is a 1978 British made-for-television film adaptation of the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The film was written by John Gay, produced by Lew Grade, and directed by Glenn Jordan (no relation to star Richard Jordan). The film originally aired on U.S. television on CBS on 27 December 1978. The plot follows the general outline of the novel of the same name, omitting many details and some entire episodes. The narrative is strictly chronological and avoids the digressions required to mirror the novel's structure. Many of the novel's minor characters"
"programme featuring the band the Scaffold and is name-checked (""Mr Frears had sticky out ears..."") in their hit song ""Lily the Pink"". He was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election. Stephen Frears Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director. Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including ""My Beautiful Laundrette"", ""Dangerous Liaisons"", ""High Fidelity"", ""The Queen"", ""Philomena"", and ""Florence Foster Jenkins"". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director: for ""The Grifters"" and ""The Queen""."
"drama ""The King's Speech"" (2010), featuring Colin Firth as George VI, received several awards. Acclaimed for his motion capture work, in 2011 actor Andy Serkis opened his own motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium Studios in London. In 2012, the twenty-third ""James Bond"" film ""Skyfall"" was the highest-grossing film in the UK at that point. In 2013, British visual effects company Framestore, under chief supervisor Tim Webber and film producer David Heyman, produced the critically acclaimed space epic ""Gravity"". In 2014, the film biopics on two British scientists (Hawking and Turing), ""The Theory of Everything"" and ""The Imitation Game"", both achieved"
"an Officer of the Legion of Honour. Raymond Bernard Raymond Bernard (10 October 1891 – 12 December 1977) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than forty years. He is best remembered for several large-scale historical productions, including the silent films ""Le Miracle des loups"" (""The Miracle of the Wolves"") and ""Le Joueur d'échecs"" (""The Chess Player"") and in the 1930s ""Les Croix de bois"" (""Wooden Crosses"") and a highly regarded adaptation of ""Les Misérables"". Raymond Bernard was born in Paris in 1891, the son of the author and humorist Tristan Bernard and younger brother of"
"discovered that his own uncle, also named David and also a stutterer, had been sent to see Lionel Logue by his father (Seidler's grandfather). In late 2005 Seidler was diagnosed with bladder cancer, but he is currently (2011) in remission. David Seidler David Seidler (born 1937) is a British-American playwright and film and television writer. He is most known for writing the scripts for the stage version and screen version for the story ""The King's Speech"". For the film, he won the Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay. Seidler was born in London, where he spent his"
"is yet to come."" The film received positive reviews from critics with a score of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert wrote he liked this film's ""expansive freedom and (the) energy of its storytelling"". Janet Maslin, who reviewed the film for ""The New York Times"", meanwhile complained about ""odd variations on Hugo's themes."" The film won the 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Annie Girardot won the 1996 César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Les Misérables (1995 film) Les Misérables is a 1995 film written, produced and directed by Claude Lelouch. Set in France during the"
"Les Misérables (2018 miniseries) Les Misérables is an upcoming BBC television miniseries of the French historical novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The series, adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by Tom Shankland, will star Dominic West, David Oyelowo, and Lily Collins. BBC Studios will handle distribution for the series. Based on the original novel, the series will not include the songs from the ""Les Misérables"" musical. The miniseries, which is set to consist of six episodes, is set to premiere on 30 December 2018. The Weinstein Company was initially set to co-produce the series and serve as"
"Les Misérables (1995 film) Les Misérables is a 1995 film written, produced and directed by Claude Lelouch. Set in France during the first half of the 20th century, the film concerns a poor and illiterate man named Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel ""Les Misérables"" and begins to see parallels to his own life. As the film opens, Henri's father, a chauffeur, is falsely accused of having murdered his boss. During his trial and imprisonment, Henri's mother finds a job in a tavern on a Normandy beach. There Henri sees a film adaptation of"
"The King (upcoming film) The King is an upcoming British-American-Australian film adaptation of several of Shakespeare's history plays, directed by David Michôd, from a screenplay by Joel Edgerton and Michôd. It stars Timothée Chalamet, Edgerton, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Sean Harris, and Lily-Rose Depp. In 2013, it was revealed that Joel Edgerton and David Michôd had collaborated on writing an adaptation of Shakespeare's plays: ""Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2"" and ""Henry V"", for Warner Bros. Pictures. In September 2015, it was announced that Michôd would direct the project with Warner Bros. producing and distributing the film and Lava Bear"
"Bryan Forbes Bryan Forbes CBE (; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist, described as a ""Renaissance man"" and ""one of the most important figures in the British film industry"". He directed the film ""The Stepford Wives"" (1975) and wrote and directed several other critically acclaimed films, including ""Whistle Down the Wind"" (1961), ""Séance on a Wet Afternoon"" (1964), and ""King Rat"" (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1960), ""The Angry Silence"" (1960) and ""Only Two"
"Robert Hossein Robert Hossein December 1927) is a French film actor, director, and writer of Iranian and Jewish origin. He directed the 1982 adaption of ""Les Misérables"", and appeared in ""Vice and Virtue"", ""Le Casse"", ""Les Uns et les Autres"" and ""Venus Beauty Institute"". His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the ""Angélique"" series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western ""Cemetery Without Crosses"" (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in ""Forbidden Priests"". Robert Hossein's father was an Iranian music composer named André Hossein. Hossein"
"London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012 The 33rd London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2012, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 20 January 2013. Amour Berberian Sound Studio ""Rust and Bone"" • France/Belgium The Imposter Ang Lee - ""Life of Pi"" Michael Haneke - ""Amour"" Alice Lowe and Steve Oram - ""Sightseers"" Joaquin Phoenix - ""The Master"" Emmanuelle Riva - ""Amour"" Philip Seymour Hoffman - ""The Master"" Anne Hathaway - ""Les Misérables"" Toby Jones - ""Berberian Sound Studio"" Andrea Riseborough - ""Shadow Dancer"" Tom Holland - ""The Impossible"" ""Life of Pi"" -"