Mike Leigh, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the greatest English ...

Directors David Cronenberg and Mike Leigh in person, a free screening of 'Conclave' starring Ralph Fiennes and 'Pennies From ...

There are some films that leave you feeling hopeless and nihilistic about the state of humankind, and these ten films are the ...

Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

B ritish director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic, working-class London after two successful side trips to the 19th century ...

In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...

British writer and director Mike Leigh has been nominated many times for Oscars in the United States; his 1996 Secrets and Lies won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s considered one of ...

Hard Truths, from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh, reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne ...

"Hard Truths" star Marianne Jean-Baptiste and director Mike Leigh, photographed in Santa Monica in January. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films ... She lives in North London with her husband, Curtley (David Webber), and their adult son, Moses (Tuwaine Barrett).

Leigh does not typically work off a script when creating his stories, but rather builds his films off improvisations conducted with his actors. “‘Hard Truths’ came out of months of ...