Mike Newell, Esq's Biography

Mike Newell, Esq's Professional Career

Career

television and film director; Granada TV 1963-69, subsequently freelance dir of TV dramas; dir Fifty Cannon Entertainment; Television films incl The Melancholy Hussar (TV film, BBC) 1973, Baa Baa Black Sheep (Granada) 1974, Gift of Friendship (YTV) 1974, Lost Your Tongue (Granada) 1974, Brassneck (Play for Today, BBC) 1975, Ready When You Are Mr McGill (Granada) 1975 (BAFTA nominee, ITC entry for Monte Carlo Festival), Of The Fields Lately (offical entry Prague Festival) 1975, Destiny (BBC) 1977, Mr & Mrs Bureaucrat (BBC) 1977, Tales Out of School - Birth of a Nation (CBC) 1982, Blood Feud (3 pt mini-series) 1982-83 (Emmy nomination), Common Ground (CBS) 1990; Films incl: The Man in the Iron Mask (ITC) 1976, The Awakening (Orion) 1977, Bad Blood 1980, Dance with a Stranger 1984 (Prix de la Jeunesse Directors Fortnight Cannes), The Good Father 1985 (Prix Italia), Amazing Grace and Chuck 1986, Soursweet 1987, Enchanted April 1991, Into the West 1992, Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 (David Lean Award for Best Achievement in Dir and Best Film BAFTA Awards, Lloyd's Bank People's Vote Most Popular Film, Cesar for Best Foreign Film, London Film Critics' Circle Br Film of the Year & Br Dir of the Year, also Academy Award nominee for Best Film & DGA nominee for Best Dir of a Feature Film), An Awfully Big Adventure 1995 (official entry Directors Fortnight Cannes), Donnie Brasco 1997, Pushing Tin 1998, Mona Lisa Smile 2003, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005, Love in the Time of Cholera 2007, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010, Great Expectations 2012; as exec prodr: Best Laid Plans 1999, High Fidelity 2000, Traffic 2000

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