Ken Loach
Directing
Born 1936-06-17
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
129 credits
BAFTA Awards 1
Cannes Film Festival 2
European Film Award for Best Film 2
Jury Prize 3
Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts 1
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 2006 BAFTA Fellowship Won
Cannes Film Festival 2 won
- 2016 Palme d'Or Won I, Daniel Blake
- 2006 Palme d'Or Won The Wind That Shakes the Barley
European Film Award for Best Film 2 won · 3 nominated
- 2016 Best Film Nominated I, Daniel Blake
- 2006 Best Film Nominated The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- 1998 Best Film Nominated My Name Is Joe
- 1995 Best Film Won Land and Freedom
- 1991 Best Film Won Riff-Raff
European Film Award for Best Director 3 nominated
- 2016 Best Director Nominated I, Daniel Blake
- 2006 Best Director Nominated The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- 2002 Best Director Nominated Sweet Sixteen
Jury Prize 3 won
- 2012 Jury Prize Won The Angels' Share
- 1993 Jury Prize Won Raining Stones
- 1990 Jury Prize Won Hidden Agenda
Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts 1 won
- — Distinguished Service to the Arts Won
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Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a retired British film director, screenwriter and producer. His humanist values and socialist political views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).
Kenneth Charles Loach was born on 17 June 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and at the age of 19 went to serve in the Royal Air Force. He read law at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated with a third-class degree. As a member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club he directed an open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, in 1959 (when he also took the role of the shady horse-dealer Dan Jordan Knockem). After Oxford, he began a career in the dramatic arts.
Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice.
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Filmography
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Directing
40 credits
Play for Today
The Wednesday Play
Z-Cars
Dispatches
Modern Times
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
I, Daniel Blake
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Sorry We Missed You
Split Screen
Full House
The Old Oak
Kes
Riff-Raff
The Angels' Share
Jimmy's Hall
Days of Hope
Sweet Sixteen
Ae Fond Kiss...
To Each His Own Cinema
Route Irish
McLibel
Land and Freedom
Looking for Eric
Bread and Roses
Hidden Agenda
Poor Cow
Raining Stones
September 11
It's a Free World...
Ladybird Ladybird
My Name Is Joe
The Navigators
The Spirit of '45
Family Life
Tickets
Carla's Song
Cathy Come Home
Fatherland
Up the Junction
Acting
15 credits
Question Time
Film '72
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Square
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
Cannes Uncut
A Special Day
Reel Britannia
We Are Many
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
Thatcher's Not Dead
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Writing
8 credits
The Wednesday Play
Full House
Kes
Days of Hope
Poor Cow
September 11
The Spirit of '45
Cathy Come Home
Other credits
4 credits
Producing
2 credits
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