Mike Figgis
Birth name	Michael Figgis
Born	February 28, 1948 (age 59) Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK
Academy Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
Nominated: Best Director - Motion Picture 1995 Leaving Las Vegas
BAFTA Awards
Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay 1995 Leaving Las Vegas

Mike Figgis (born February 28, 1948) is an English film director, writer, and composer. // March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation November - After a six-year hiatus, the James Bond film series resumes with the successful GoldenEye. ... Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute from Las Vegas, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, respectively. ... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. ... // March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation November - After a six-year hiatus, the James Bond film series resumes with the successful GoldenEye. ... Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute from Las Vegas, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, respectively. ... BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... // March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation November - After a six-year hiatus, the James Bond film series resumes with the successful GoldenEye. ... Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute from Las Vegas, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, respectively. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Figgis was born in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. His early interest was in music and he played keyboards for Bryan Ferry's first band. After working in theatre (he was a musician and performer in the experimental group The People Show) he made his feature film debut with the low budget Stormy Monday in 1988. The film earned him attention as a Director who could get interesting performances from established Hollywood actors. He initially made a splash in America in the 1990s with the gritty thriller Internal Affairs that helped to revive the career of Richard Gere. His next Hollywood feature Mr. Jones was misunderstood by the studio who attempted to market the downbeat story as a feelgood movie resulting in a box office flop. Figgis poured his disenchantment with the film industry into Leaving Las Vegas, creating star turns for Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue which earned Figgis Academy Award nominations for Best Directing and Best Screenplay. Carlisle is a city in the far north-west of England, and is the largest urban area in Cumbria. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Tyne and Wear) is an English singer, musician and songwriter, famed for his suave visual and vocal style, who came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with Roxy Music. ... Stormy Monday is the 1988 feature film debut of director Mike Figgis. ... ... Tagline Trust him. ... Richard Tiffany Gere[1] (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. ... Mr. ... Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute from Las Vegas, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, respectively. ... Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an American actor. ... Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Forays into digital video technology led him to conceive of and direct Timecode, which took advantage of the technology to create an ensemble film shot simultaneously with four cameras all in one take and also presented simultaneously and uncut, dividing the screen into four quarters. Since then, his work output has almost exclusively been on the cutting edge of creative digital filmmaking, with the exception of star-laden Cold Creek Manor. He returned to the Timecode quad-screen approach for his section of Ten Minutes Older, but has also worked on documentary pieces including a segment of The Blues (called Red, White, and Blues) and a short piece on the flamenco. His curiosity with the cinematic use of time has led him to cite Robert Enrico's film version of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge as an influential film for him. Figgis has a well-documented love-hate relationship with the Hollywood system which leads him to often be an outspoken critic of the system while also despairing the lack of a better alternative, in his mind, at the moment; at an appearance at Camerimage in 2005, he expressed the view that filmmaking had become "boring and perhaps need[ed] to become even worse before anything better can emerge" successfully at least in reaction. His fascination with camera technology has also led him to create a camera stabilization rig for smaller video cameras, called the Fig Rig which places the camera on a platform held within a steering wheel-like system and has since been released by Manfrotto Group. Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital, rather than analog, representation of the video signal. ... Timecode poster Timecode is a 2000 comedy, directed by Mike Figgis. ... Cold Creek Manor DVD cover Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 film directed by Mike Figgis. ... Ten minutes older is a 2002 film project resulting in two different films called The Trumpet and The Cello. ... The Blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. ... Bailaora (dancer) of Flamenco Belén Maya, photograph taken by Gilles Larrain at his studio, 2001 Flamenco is one of the great European nonacademic musical genres. ... Robert Enrico (April 13, 1931 - February 23, 2001) was a French film director and scriptwriter. ... An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (sometimes called An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge) is a famous short story by Ambrose Bierce. ... Fig Rig is a camera stabilaztion device for smaller film/video cameras designed by move director Mike Figgis. ... A modern road cars steering wheel Steering wheels from different periods A steering wheel is a type of steering control used in most modern land vehicles, including all mass-production automobiles. ... The Manfrotto Group is manufacturer of camera and lighting supports based in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. ...

Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films. Saffron Dominique Burrows (born October 22, 1972[1]) is an English actress. ...

He is cousin to Irish filmmakers Jonathan Figgis and Jason Figgis who run the award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures in Ireland. A Co-Founder and Director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures, Film Director and Producer Jonathan Figgis worked in the animation industry for a couple of years, contributing on award-winning independent animated shorts as well as television series’ for the international market. ... Managing Director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures, Jason Figgis has a background in the entertainment industry having worked creatively on two series of Murakami Wolf’s hugely successful animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ... October Eleven Pictures is an Irish Production Company based in Dublin, Ireland. ...

Filmography

• The House (1984)
• Stormy Monday (1988)
• Internal Affairs (1990)
• Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991)
• Liebestraum (1991)
• Mr. Jones (1993)
• The Browning Version (1994)
• Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
• Flamenco Women (1997)
• One Night Stand (1997)
• The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)
• Miss Julie (1999)
• Timecode (2000)
• Hotel (2001)
• The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
• Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) Segment: About Time 2
• The Blues (2003) - Episode: Red, White, And Blues
• Cold Creek Manor (2003)
• The Sopranos - Episode: Cold Cuts (2004)
• Co/Ma (2004)
• Guilty Pleasure (2006) (Announced)

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External links

• Mike Figgis at the Internet Movie Database
• Fig Rig official site
• Mike Figgis biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline
• A short film for Agent Provocateur
• Interview