Danny Boyle is an English director who many films under his belt that are considered classics!
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about his life and career!
- His full name is Daniel Francis Boyle
- He was born on 20 October 1956
- He is an English director of film and stage, producer, and screenwriter
- He is known for his work on films
- These films include Shallow Grave, Trainspotting with its 2017 sequel, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs
- His debut film Shallow Grave won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film
- The British Film Institute ranked Trainspotting the 10th greatest British film of the 20th century
- Boyle’s 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, the most successful British film of the decade, was nominated for ten Academy Awards
- It won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director
- He also won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director
- Danny Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival
- There he also introduced that year’s AFF Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire
- In 2012, Boyle was the artistic director for Isles of Wonder
- The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics
- He was subsequently offered a knighthood as part of the New Year Honours, but declined
- In 2014, it was announced that Boyle would become a patron of HOME in Manchester
- In February 2017, Boyle announced his bid to help launch a £30 million film and media school in Manchester
- Stating: “This is just what Manchester needs and I am delighted to be part of the International Screen School Manchester”
- Danny Boyle was born on 20 October 1956 in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England
- About 6 miles north of Manchester city centre
- To Irish parents from County Galway
- Although he now describes himself as a “spiritual atheist”
- He was brought up in a working class Catholic family
- Danny Boyle was an altar boy for eight years
- And his mother had the priesthood in mind for him
- But aged 14 he was persuaded by a priest not to transfer from school to a seminary
- He later studied at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton
- And studied English and Drama at University College of North Wales
- While at university, Boyle dated the actress Frances Barber
- He was in a relationship with casting director Gail Stevens from 1983 to 2003
- With whom he has three children
- Danny Boyle is the patron of North West-based young people’s substance misuse charity, Early Break
- Which was founded and based in his home town of Radcliffe
- He is also a trustee of the UK-based African arts charity Dramatic Need
- He has directed 13 feature films
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