“wanted to use non-actors to tell the story, to create a reality ... the kids we cast in Glasgow had never done a film before.”
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David Yates
David Yates is an English filmmaker, who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter series and the three films of its prequel series, Fantastic Beasts. His work on the Harry Potter series brought him critical and commercial success along with accolades, such as the British Academy Britannia Award for…
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entertainment · English filmmaker (born 1963) · screenwriter · film director · film producer · television director · director · also David Yates, Yates
Born 8 October 1963 · Q312988
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2026· 2 entries
“used to skive off college all the time”
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2022· 1 entry
Which also received mixed critical reception and grossed $407 million worldwide, making it a box office disappointment and the lowest-grossing film in the Wizarding World franchise
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2016· 1 entry
Opened to mixed reviews and a worldwide total of $356
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2013· 1 entry
Returned to television by signing on to direct the television pilot of Tyrant, an American drama production set against the US–Middle East conflict
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2009· 1 entry
And became the only film in the series to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Order of the Phoenix opened to positive reviews and commercial success
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2004· 2 entries
Yates's two-part drama Sex Traffic was broadcast on Channel 4
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Yates was involved in plans for a film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited for Warner Independent Pictures
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2000· 1 entry
To direct the episodes of Greed, Envy and Lust for the BBC miniseries The Sins, starring Pete Postlethwaite, as well as The Way We Live Now, the four-part television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Anthony Tr
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1998· 1 entry
With the release of the independent historical-drama film The Tichborne Claimant
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1992· 1 entry
Yates directed an episode of the film studies programme Moving Pictures
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1989· 1 entry
And led to the BBC hiring him to direct Oranges and Lemons, a short drama film in 1991
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1988· 1 entry
Yates made his first film When I Was a Girl in Swindon
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1987· 1 entry
Studied at University of Essex, Bachelor of Arts (1987).
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-10-08.
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