Ken Loach
Ken Loach started his career in the theatre and went on to become a BBC television director in 1963, where he directed the classic film "Cathy Come Home." In 1969, Loach made the award-winning film "Kes" (now in the prestigious Criterion Collection). Among his many other notable films are "Hidden Agenda," "Riff-Raff," "Raining Stones," "Land and Freedom," "Ladybird," "Ladybird," "Carla's Song," "My Name Is Joe," "Bread and Roses," and "Jimmy's Hall." Loach won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes...See more
Ken Loach started his career in the theatre and went on to become a BBC television director in 1963, where he directed the classic film "Cathy Come Home." In 1969, Loach made the award-winning film "Kes" (now in the prestigious Criterion Collection). Among his many other notable films are "Hidden Agenda," "Riff-Raff," "Raining Stones," "Land and Freedom," "Ladybird," "Ladybird," "Carla's Song," "My Name Is Joe," "Bread and Roses," and "Jimmy's Hall." Loach won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." "The Angels' Share" won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2012. He is a cofounder of the Left Unity party. "Over his more than four decades as a director, Ken Loach has built a body of work unsurpassed in world film and television for its relentless analysis of social and political injustice," notes film critic Graham Fuller. See less