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Awards Chatter

Mike Leigh - 'Hard Truths'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The legendary English filmmaker reflects on the origins and specifics of his mysterious method of writing and directing; why he was forced to spend 17 years between his first and second theatrical features working in television, and the pros and cons of that; and how it feels to see his latest film, which was rejected by the Cannes, Venice and Telluride film fests, being so well received. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is supported by the film Amelia Perez, nominated for 10 Critics' Choice Awards,

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including Best Picture and Best Director Jacques Odiard, and winner of five European film awards,

0:12.0

starring Carlos Sophia Gascon, Zoe Saldania, and Selena Gomez, ABC News raves.

0:17.8

It's an unmissable movie event. You've never seen anything like it.

0:22.2

A cinematic editing feat with breathtaking cinematography,

0:26.3

transformative hair and makeup, and bold musicality

0:29.2

featuring the original song Me Camino.

0:32.0

Awards Watch calls Amelia Perez the best picture of the year

0:35.2

for your consideration.

0:50.7

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 567th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the

0:55.1

greatest English filmmakers of all time, a man who has written in his own way, and directed,

1:01.6

films for screens both big and small, which have been massively acclaimed and influential for

1:06.5

more than a half century. Among them, 1976's nuts in May,

1:11.3

1977's Abigail's party, 1980s grown-ups, 1983's meantime, 1993's naked,

1:18.7

1996's secrets and lies, 2004's Vera Drake, 2008's Happy Go Lucky, and Most Recently,

1:26.2

2024's Hard Truths, Mike Lee.

1:30.9

Lee's films have won the top prizes of both the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals,

1:35.0

something no other Brit has ever been able to claim.

1:38.2

He personally was awarded an OBE in 1993,

1:42.2

BAFTA's Michael Balkin Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, and a BAFTA fellowship in 2014.

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And he has been nominated for seven Oscars.

1:52.4

The British Film Institute has called Lee the Great Humanists of British Cinema.

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