Ken Loach

Ken Loach was born on Jun 17, 1936 in UK. Ken Loach's big-screen debut came with Poor Cow directed by Ken Loach in 1967. Ken Loach is known for Sorry We Missed You directed by Ken Loach, Kris Hitchen stars as Ricky and Debbie Honeywood as Abby. Ken Loach has got 114 awards and 101 nominations so far. The most recent award Ken Loach achieved is Gaudí Awards. The upcoming new movie Ken Loach plays is Sorry We Missed You which will be released on Mar 06, 2020.

Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into the theater, performing with a touring repertory company. This led to television, where in alliance with producer Tony Garnett he produced a series of docudramas, most notably the devastating "Cathy Come Home" episode of The Wednesday Play (1964), whose impact was so massive that it led directly to a change in the homeless laws.He made his feature debut Pas de larmes pour Joy (1967) the following year, and with Kes (1969), he produced what is now acclaimed as one of the finest films ever made in Britain. However, the following two decades saw his career in the doldrums with his films poorly distributed (despite the obvious quality of work such as The Gamekeeper (1968) and Regards et sourires (1981)) and his TV work in some cases never broadcast (most notoriously, his documentaries on the 1984 miners' strike).He made a spectacular comeback in the 1990s, with a series of award-winning films firmly establishing him in the pantheon of great European directors - his films have always been more popular in mainland Europe than in his native country or the US (where Riff-Raff (1991) was shown with subtitles because of the wide range of dialects). Secret défense (1990) won the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival; Riff-Raff (1991) won the Felix award for Best European Film of 1992; Raining Stones (1993) won the Cannes Special Jury Prize for 1993, and Land and Freedom (1995) won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival - and was a substantial box-office hit in Spain where it sparked intense debate about its subject matter. This needless to say, was one of the reasons that Loach made the film!