Directing
Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.
Titles
The South Bank Show
1978
Omnibus
1967
Kulturplatz
2004
Great British Menu
2006
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Reel Britannia
2022
Chéri
2009
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
Back to Barrytown
2021
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Michael Powell
2005
Forever Ealing
2002
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025
She's French
2018
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Great Directors
2009
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
Long Shot
1978
Heavy Rain
2010
Cast & Crew: If....
2004
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015