Peter Cattaneo

British filmmaker

Film director
television director
producer
screenwriter

Years active1989–presentNotable workThe Full MontySpouseJulia CattaneoChildren4AwardsMTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker
The Full Monty (1997)

Peter Joseph Cattaneo MBE (born 1 July 1964) is a British filmmaker. He is most known for directing the comedy film The Full Monty,^[1]^[2] for which was he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and won the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker.

Life and career

Cattaneo was brought up in Twickenham, London. His father was a London-born animator of Italian descent.^[3] After attending London College of Printing for an art foundation course, and Leeds Polytechnic for a BA in Graphic Design (Film), he graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1989, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Dear Rosie (1990). He went on to make his feature film debut with The Full Monty (1997), which was a smash success both in the UK and internationally.^[4] The comedy grossed £160,049,344 at the box office on a £3 million budget and Cattaneo received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.

Cattaneo has since directed several films including Lucky Break (2001), Opal Dream (2006) and The Rocker (2008). He has also directed a multitude of commercials^[5] as well as every episode of the award-winning comedy television series Rev. for BBC Two.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1998 Birthday Honours "for services to the British Film Industry."^[6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Notes
1990	Dear Rosie	Short film subject Nominated – Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
1997	The Full Monty	MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker Nominated – Academy Award for Best Director Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Direction
2001	Lucky Break	Also producer
2006	Opal Dream	Also writer
2008	The Rocker
2019	Military Wives

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1993	Teenage Health Freak	TV series 6 episodes
1993–1994	The Bill	TV series 2 episodes
2010–2012	Little Crackers	TV series 4 episodes
2010–2014	Rev.	TV series 19 episodes
2016	The A Word	TV series 3 episodes
2017	Diana & I	TV movie
2022	Magpie Murders	TV series 6 episodes

References

^ "FILM | Peter Cattaneo's lucky breaks". News.bbc.co.uk. 17 August 2001. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah (2001). Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide – Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson – Google Books. ISBN 978-1-903364-21-5. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ "Winning Streak". The Guardian. 3 August 2001. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
^ Sally Vincent (3 August 2001). "Peter Cattaneo, director of The Full Monty | Film". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ "Academy films – Peter Cattaneo".
^ United Kingdom list: "No. 55155". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1998. p. 16.

External links

Peter Cattaneo at IMDb

Films directed by Peter Cattaneo

Dear Rosie (1990)
The Full Monty (1997)
Lucky Break (2001)
Opal Dream (2006)
The Rocker (2008)
Military Wives (2019)

Awards for Peter Cattaneo

BAFTA Award for Best Film

1940s
The Best Years of Our Lives (1947) Hamlet (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949)

1950s
All About Eve (1950) La Ronde (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) Forbidden Games (1953) The Wages of Fear (1954) Richard III (1955) Gervaise (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Room at the Top (1958) Ben-Hur (1959)

1960s

The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai / The Hustler – Robert Rossen (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Tom Jones (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
My Fair Lady (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (1966)
A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967)
The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1968)
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger (1969)

1970s
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) Cabaret (1972) Day for Night (1973) Lacombe, Lucien (1974) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976) Annie Hall – Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins (1977) Julia – Richard Roth (1978) Manhattan (1979)

1980s

The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980)
Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam (1981)
Gandhi – Richard Attenborough (1982)
Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert (1983)
The Killing Fields – David Puttnam (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1985)
A Room with a View – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1986)
Jean de Florette – Claude Berri (1987)
The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1988)
Dead Poets Society – Peter Weir, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas (1989)

1990s

Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese, Robert Chartoff, and Irwin Winkler (1990)
The Commitments – Alan Parker, Lynda Myles, and Roger Randall-Cutler (1991)
Howards End – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1992)
Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, and Gerald R. Molen (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell and Duncan Kenworthy (1994)
Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Lindsay Doran (1995)
The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
The Full Monty – Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, and Fran Walsh (2001)
The Pianist – Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, and Alain Sarde (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
The Aviator – Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, and Michael Mann (2004)
Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus (2005)
The Queen – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward (2006)
Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh (2017)
Roma – Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez (2018)
1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021) All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert (2022) Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas (2023)

v t e MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker
John Singleton (1992) Carl Franklin (1993) Steven Zaillian (1994) Steve James (1995) Wes Anderson (1996) Doug Liman (1997) Peter Cattaneo (1998) Guy Ritchie (1999) Spike Jonze (2000) Sofia Coppola (2001) Christopher Nolan (2002)

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