Timothy Spall has worked with Mike Leigh across six films, and Secrets and Lies gives him a photographer holding a family together at considerable personal cost.
Mr Turner won him Best Actor at Cannes, and he spent two years learning to paint for it. Harry Potter gave him Peter Pettigrew, and he survived acute myeloid leukaemia in the mid-1990s, which he has discussed at length.
Colin FirthThe King's Speech (2010) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A well-made two-hander about a man with a stammer and the unqualified Australian who treated him, which beat The Social Network for Best Picture and Best Director…
Jane HorrocksChicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.
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