Mike Leigh is an English filmmaker. He has received seven Academy Award nominations, and thirteen British Academy Film Award nominations receiving three awards for Secrets & Lies (1996) and Vera Drake (2004). In 2014 he received the BAFTA Fellowship for Outstanding British Contribution to Film. He has also received five Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best International Film winning for Secrets & Lies.
He has also received various award nominations from film festivals including eight nominations from the Cannes Film Festival winning four awards including the Palme d'Or for Secrets & Lies as well as awards for Naked, and Another Year. He also received three nominations from the Berlin International Film Festival winning twice for his Meantime and The Short & Curlies. At the Venice International Film Festival he received five nominations winning the prestigious Golden Lion award for Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1996 Best Director Secrets & Lies Best Original Screenplay 1999 Topsy Turvy 2004 Best Director Vera Drake Best Original Screenplay 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky 2010 Another Year
British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1987 Best Short Film The Short and Curlies 1992 Sense of History 1993 Outstanding British Film Naked 1995 Michael Balcon Award 1996 Best Film Secrets & Lies Outstanding British Film Best Direction Best Original Screenplay 1999 Outstanding British Film Topsy-Turvy Best Original Screenplay 2004 Outstanding British Film Vera Drake Best Direction Best Original Screenplay 2010 Outstanding British Film Another Year 2014 BAFTA Fellowship 2024 Outstanding British Film Hard Truths
Independent Spirit Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1989 Best International Film High Hopes 1991 Life is Sweet 1993 Naked 1996 Secrets & Lies 1999 Topsy-Turvy 2024 Hard Truths
Festivals Berlin Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1984 Reader Jury Award Meantime 1988 Panorama Short Film Award The Short and Curlies 2008 Golden Bear Happy-Go-Lucky
Cannes Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1993 Palme d'Or Naked Best Director 1996 Palme d'Or Secrets & Lies Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 2002 Palme d'Or All or Nothing 2010 Another Year Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 2014 Palme d'Or Mr. Turner
Venice Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1988 FIPRESCI Prize High Hopes 1999 Golden Lion Topsy-Turvy 2004 Vera Drake 2018 Peterloo Human Rights Award
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