Directing
Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.
Filmography
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
Film · 2026
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Film · 2025
A Look Through His Lens
Film · 2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Film · 2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Film · 2023
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Film · 2022
Reel Britannia
Series · 2022
Back to Barrytown
Series · 2021
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Film · 2020
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Film · 2019
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Film · 2019
She's French
Film · 2018
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
Film · 2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
Film · 2018
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Film · 2017
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Film · 2016
French Cinema Mon Amour
Film · 2015
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
Film · 2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
Film · 2014
30 Years of Comic Strip
Film · 2012
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Film · 2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Film · 2011
Heavy Rain
Film · 2010
Chéri
Film · 2009
Great Directors
Film · 2009
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Film · 2009
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Film · 2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
Film · 2007
Great British Menu
Series · 2006
Michael Powell
Film · 2005
Cast & Crew: If....
Film · 2004
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Film · 2004
Kulturplatz
Series · 2004
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Film · 2003
Forever Ealing
Film · 2002
Robert Altman in England
Film · 2002
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Film · 2001
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Film · 2000
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Film · 1997
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Film · 1995
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Series · 1993
Director: Alan Clarke
Film · 1991
Hooray For Holyrood
Film · 1986
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Film · 1985
Long Shot
Film · 1978
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
Incident
Film · 1971
Omnibus
Series · 1967