Talk:Mike Leigh

OBE
There is a link to OBE next to his name and it goes to a disambiguation page. I don't know what it is supposed to mean, so I was hoping someone else would clear it up.--Andland 23:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Officer of the British Empire - he's not knighted but has received official recognition. This page, and many of the pages about his movies, read like essays instead of encyclopedia articles. More opinion than facts. Could use objective fleshing out of bio & filmography. This should eventually filter over to all articles about movies, plays, actors, other associates. davidlark

OBE now goes to Officer of the British Empire. Nietzsche 2 (talk) 14:01, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

This article needs serious work
I tried to start editing this article but stopped after my 15th change. I realized that this needs a complete re-write. The text is both fawning and unreferenced. It does not even attempt an encyclopedic-style treatment of the subject. Can someone with more knowledge than me on the subject please consider a complete re-write? Thanks, Hu Gadarn 20:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, not only is it fawning and non-encyclopedic, much of it looks like a copyright violation "cut-and-paste" from a newspaper or magazine article. Anyway, this is one of the bizarre aspects of Wikipedia; there are huge 50 page articles on the most obscure Animé series or fantasy role playing game characters, and lengthy articles about very non-notable garage bands whose big claim to fame is an article in the local university paper...and then you have a major British playright, theatre and film director, and his Wikipedia article is a short, shambling mess!!! I'm being a bit ironic...of course the articles that Wikipedia editors work on reflects their interests, and there is more interest in popular culture articles on celebrity singers, comic books, etc....Nazamo (talk) 15:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Easter egg links
Does anyone else find these distracting and unhelpful? Aside from the fact that we have a guideline against such links, is there any reason they add value to the article? I can't see it myself. --John (talk) 18:14, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject actors and film makers
This article is rated LOW importance? that is very dumb. Sayerslle (talk) 23:03, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Table "Recurring collaborators" huge and hard to read
Is there a way of making this table smaller? I have to scroll the page on my computer to read it all. Also, if there's and X in a box in the bottom part of the table, the reader has to scroll up to see the name of the film the X refers to. Thanks, EChastain (talk) 14:11, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I found something that had 90% in the table and so I reduced it to 65% and it fits better now for my PC anyhow. don't know if that helps. 40% made it difficult to read the names. Sayerslle (talk) 22:37, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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Recurring Collaborators table
This section of this article has become unwieldy and very hard to read. On top of that, while it has a heading saying that these collaborators are actors who have worked with Mike Leigh three or more times, there are entries in the table with only two collaborations, plus at least one non-actor (casting director Nina Gold).

I propose that this table is significantly reduced, possibly even replace with a list of the twenty most frequent collaborators or something like that. Does anyone have any objections/thoughts/suggestions? Turner Street (talk) 23:13, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've been bold and edited the table. I removed all the actors with fewer than three collaborations, plus non-actor Nina Gold. I also removed The Permissive Society from the list of films, as none of the recurring collaborators appear in it, and Too Much of a Good Thing, which is a radio play.
 * It's still a bit too big really. I don't want to go too crazy now, but there are several actors without their own articles and I considered removing them too. I've added a brief summary of the most frequent collaborators as an introduction. I hope this isn't considered OR. Turner Street (talk) 18:50, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

East 15
The Guardian says "Back in London, Leigh began teaching at various drama schools, particularly Webber Douglas and East 15 where he worked on a piece called Individual Fruit Pies, in which the actors based their characters for the first time on real people of their acquaintance. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * "I want to congratulate you all on your degrees and thank the University for my honorary degree. Of course I would also very much like to congratulate the new graduands of East 15 Acting School, with which I do have a connection, because although as we thespian-type people know, it is an extraordinary anomaly to wear a ridiculous costume and to receive a degree for acting, nevertheless it is a wonderful thing, too. And I absolutely congratulate you and the University on having facilitated this phenomenon. Thank you very much." - Mike Leigh himself in 2002, accepting his honorary degree from the University of Essex. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 23:09, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Alison Steadman also says that the two met at East 15, with a source from page 90 of Michael Coveney's 1996 book The World According to Mike Leigh. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * He directed plays there and met Alison Steadman there - that does not mean he studied there? Therefore the accolade should not be on his page Jm1226333 (talk) 11:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * To have directed at East 15 is not really an accolade. But I removed Category:Alumni of East 15 Acting School. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:57, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * But then I re-added it, as he received an honorary degree in 2012, via the University of Essex (see above). Whether this counts as "Alma mater" is moot. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * And then I changed that to Category:Alumni of the University of Essex who awarded the degree. That is an accolade, so I've added it to "Accolades and honours". Martinevans123 (talk) 12:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That’s more specific. Appreciated. Jm1226333 (talk) 12:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * If you find something that you disagree with, it's usually better to add a tag next to the relevant text and/or to ask a question at the Talk page, rather than just rip out an entire section. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)