Ken Loach

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1936 age 0

   Born

2. 2006 age 70

   CreditThe Wind That Shakes the Barleydirector

3. 2016 age 80

   CreditI, Daniel Blakedirector

• GFGeorge Fenton2 titles
• PLPaul Laverty2 titles
• RORebecca O'Brien2 titles
• JMJonathan Morris2 titles
• LCLiam Cunningham1 title
• CMCillian Murphy1 title
• RARoger Allam1 title
• SMSeán McGinley1 title
• MWMark Wakeling1 title
• BABarry Ackroyd1 title

• Kes is really about the colossal wastages of kids, whose lives and abilities are written off before they're even in their teens. We chose to make it in Barnsley, we chose a Secondary modern school on a new estate that's becoming shabby. But it could have been one of hundreds of schools or estates. We didn't happen to unearth one child star, there were several kids in that one school who could have done the main part, [Billy Casper].

  Ken Loach, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't think people exist outside of their social situation. You can't abstract people from their environment. It always baffles me when people ask why I don't direct a comedy or a thriller. I think they would be much more artificial fields in which to work. The great expanse of people is really rather interesting.

  Ken Loach, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You can't treat mental health on an assembly line, which is the way it is now organised.

  Ken Loach, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [On film executive Nat Cohen, then responsible (according to his rivals) for about 50% of film production in the UK] I found Nat very kind and helpful. [...] [A] lot of things went wrong in those films and I realise it now. I saw this but he didn't say a word and allowed me to finish.<br />That's on a personal level. On a different level I find Nat's position in the film industry very disturbing. He has too much control over it. Do you know how he works? Every morning he studies the box office receipts and sees which films are making money and concentrates on those. So, slowly, the spectrum is becoming narrower and narrower.

  Ken Loach, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Screenings of Loach's work suffered during this period] You are only part of a process of communication with a lot of people who have no chance to be heard at all. [...] The suppression of that is much more important than the problems of individual filmmakers.

  Ken Loach, CC BY-SA 4.0

• MAX STAFFORD-CLARK claims that the decision to ban Perdition from the Royal Court was his alone (Letters, March 3).<br />Nonsense. It was clearly a response to the massive campaign mounted by Zionist groups in the weeks before the production.<br />The unprincipled, mendacious and consciously distorting articles, the meetings between Zionist campaigners and members of the Royal Court board, the threats about the future of the Court this was the pressure that caused Stafford-Clark to cave in. Or is he now saying that [the] orchestrated furore was just a coincidence? Remember, his objection was not to the acting or direction, but to the text.

  Ken Loach, CC BY-SA 4.0