Mike Newell

Director Mike Newell on the set of Pushing Tin

Biography

Born 03/28/1942

Versatile film craftsman Mike Newell alternated between London and Hollywood, from film to TV, before securing his reputation as a leading British filmmaker in the early 1990s. He learned his craft as a production trainee at Granada Television after graduating in English from Cambridge and went on...
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Awards

  • In 1995, received Cesar Award for Best Foreign-Language Film
  • In 1994, received BAFTA Award for Best Director
  • In 1994, received Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film

Highlights

  • In 2007, Helmed the feature adaption of "Love in the Time of Cholera" starring Javier Bardem and Benjamin Bratt
  • In 2005, Became the first British director to oversee a 'Harry Potter' film with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," adapted from the fourth book in the fantasy series by J.K. Rowling
  • In 2003, Directed Julia Roberts in "Mona Lisa Smile," as a free-thinking art professor teaching conservative 50's Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal role

Family & Companions

  • parents: Acted in amateur theatricals
  • Billy Newell: son (Born c. 1995)

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