Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry

  • Born: 1960-5-2
  • Birthplace: Dorst City, United Kingdom
  • Height: 6' 1" (1.86 m)
  • Profession: Director, producer
  • Nationality: England
  • Graduate School: University of Sheffield
  • Representative Works: Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader
  • Stephen David Daldry (Stephen Daldry) was born on May 2, 1961 in Dolster City, England. He graduated from The University of Sheffield and is a British director and producer.
    In 1992, 32-year-old Stephen David Daldry became a full-time director of the Royal Opera House. In 1998, Stephen David Daldry shot his first youth short film " Eight ", which won the 52nd British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award Film Award-Best Short Film [1]  .
    In 2000, he made his first feature film " Billy Elliot ", which won the 73rd Oscar Award-Best Director nomination [2]  . In 2002, with the directing of the art film " The Hours ", he was nominated for Best Director at the 60th American Golden Globe Awards [3]  . In 2008, filming the romantic film " The Reader ", won the 81st Oscar Award-Best Director nomination [4]  . In 2011, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the horror of September 11, he directed the drama " Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close " [5-7]  . In 2014, directed the comedy " Trash ", which was nominated for the 68th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award-Best Non-English Film [8-10]  .

    Early Experience

    Stephen David Daldry's father is a bank manager and his mother is a singer. In Stephen’s teenage years, his father wanted him to inherit his father’s business as a bank manager. He once forced him to study financial management, but Stephen David Daldry, who loves performing arts, fled the family and entered the theater industry to participate in Taunton, England. A youth troupe in the city. From 1985 to 1988, while studying at The University of Sheffield, he studied under the Italian clown Elder Militi at the Crucib Theatre in the local theater, and worked as a clown in a circus   .

    Performing Experience

    In 1991, Stephen David Daldry went to London to join the City Gate Theatre, and directed the play "Cry of Despair" which attracted people's attention. After that, he directed more than 100 stage plays, including directing JB-Pop after he went to the National Opera. The reasoning thriller "The House of Sin" written by Ristley   .
    In 1992, 32-year-old Stephen David Daldry became a full-time director of the Royal Opera House. From 1992 to 1995, Stephen David Daldry served as the artistic director of the Royal Opera House   .
    In 1994, Stephen David Daldry led Fiona Shaw to direct the play " Mechanical Age ". In 1995, with Tony Doyle and Rufus Sewell, he co-directed the feature film "Skull Rat"   .
    In 1998, Stephen David Daldry shot his first youth short film " Eight ", which won the 52nd British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award Film Award-Best Short Film   . Later, he directed the stage play "Bitter Way" based on David Hare's journey to the Middle East.
    In 2000, directed the feature film " Billy Elliot " with the background of the 1984 British mining workers' strike . The film was co-starred by Jamie Bell and Julie Walters . Stephen David Daldry won the 73rd Oscar Award-Best Director nomination for this film.   .
    In 2002, Stephen David Daldry directed the art film " The Hours " based on the American writer Michael Cunningham 's novel of the same name. The film was starred by Nicole Mary Kidman , Meryl Streep , and Julianne Moore , and won the National Critics Association Award for Best Picture, 9 nominations including the ten best films of the American Film Institute, the 60th Golden Globe Awards (drama category), the best film, the 75th Oscar Best Picture, etc. Stephen David Daldry won the 60th American Golden Globe Award for Best Director for this film Nominated and nominated for the 75th Academy Awards-Best Director   .
    In 2008, he filmed the romance film " The Reader " co-starring Kate Winslet , David Kross and Ralph Fiennes, and was nominated for the 81st Oscar Awards-Best Director . 
    In 2011, Stephen David Daldry directed the feature film " Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close " starring Thomas Horn and Tom Hanks to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the horror of 9/11 . In 2013, filmed the feature film "The Queen Summoned". 
    In 2014, directed the romance film "Old Lover under the Stars". In the same year, directed and adapted the comedy " Trash " from Ande Mulligan's novel of the same name . The film was co-starred by Jos Domont and Martin Sheen , and won the 68th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Film Award-Best Nominated for non-English films   .

    Character Evaluation

    Steven Dedley is an accomplished stage director. The actor is famous in the United Kingdom, and it is not surprising that he produces a director with a strong humanistic temperament like him. The precise pursuit of performance and the detailed depiction of human nature are his handy signs. Speaking of which, the films he has directed range from the sunny "Bill Elliott" to the analysis of human nature "The Hours" to the Oscars The popular, "The Reader" with the theme of rethinking World War II, is considered to be less productive, but they are all classics . 
    Extended Reading

    Billy Elliot quotes

    • Mrs. Wilkinson: Please yourself, darlin'.

    • Debbie: If you want, I'll show you me fanny.

      Billy: Nah. You're all right.