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.
Known for
- The South Bank Show (1978)
- Omnibus (1967)
- Kulturplatz (2004)
- Great British Menu (2006)
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993)
- Chéri (2009)
- Reel Britannia (2022)
- Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)
- Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel (2022)
- Alan Clarke: His Own Man (2000)
- 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (2003)
- Michael Powell (2005)
- 30 Years of Comic Strip (2012)
- In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat (2020)
- Forever Ealing (2002)
- French Cinema Mon Amour (2015)
- Who Killed British Cinema? (2018)
- Long Shot (1978)
- Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood (2011)
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act (2024)