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Stephen Daldry

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Stephen Daldry

Born May 2, 1961 in Dorset, England10 films

Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008).

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From 2016 to 2020, he produced and directed the Netflix television series The Crown, for which he received one Producers Guild Award nomination, one Producers Guild Award win, two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and one Primetime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series.

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Billy Elliot posterFirst watchBilly Elliot20007.6County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering.View film

Essential films

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The Reader poster7.5The Reader2008The Hours poster7.3The Hours2002Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close poster7.0Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011Trash poster7.1Trash2014Together poster5.8Together2021

Filmography

10 films as director
  1. TBAStranger Things: The First ShadowDirector
  2. 2021TogetherDirector
  3. 2014TrashDirector
  4. 2014National Theatre Live: SkylightDirector
  5. 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseDirector
  6. 2008The ReaderDirector
  7. 2003Cinema16: British Short FilmsDirector
  8. 2002The HoursDirector
  9. 2000Billy ElliotDirector
  10. 1998EightDirector