Michael Apted

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1941 age 0

   Born

2. 1988 age 47

   CreditGorillas in the Mistdirector

3. 1992 age 51

   CreditBram Stoker's Draculaexecutive producer

4. 1999 age 58

   CreditThe World Is Not Enoughdirector

5. 2002 age 61

   CreditEnoughdirector

6. 2006 age 65

   CreditAmazing Gracedirector

7. 2010 age 69

   CreditThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderdirector

8. 2021 age 79

   Died

• DADavid Arnold4 titles
• CHCiarán Hinds2 titles
• NWNicholas Woodeson2 titles
• BCBilly Campbell2 titles
• IGIain Glen1 title
• IVIndira Varma1 title
• ECEnzo Cilenti1 title
• PMPatrick Malahide1 title
• TMTobias Menzies1 title
• IGIoan Gruffudd1 title

• It is risky, in this cynical and mocking age, to make a determinedly traditional biopic … a film willing to focus on the good that men do.

  Michael Apted, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think doing a documentary is one set of your muscles and doing a drama is another. You can learn from both of them -- how to place material, where you build it. I learned those lessons doing both documentaries and drama. Both of them helped the other; how to keep things interesting on camera when interviewing them, the same way you keep the actor of a drama alive and not just doing it by numbers. The dramas I do are usually character-driven. It’s very similar to doing a documentary; in a drama you’re always trying to build to something. I say to documentary directors to look at more dramas, to give it more wit so you don’t put one great thing at the beginning; structure the documentary to keep the audience’s interest. I learned a lot in documentaries about how to cut performances in dramas and to keep the audience on their toes.

  Michael Apted, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Years active

1963–

Education

Downing College