Birth of a Nation

Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years as confirmed by the UK Film... Council in their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Newell won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 1994 for Four Weddings and a Funeral. Newell was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, the son of amateur actors. Newell was educated at St Albans School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then attended a three year training course at Granada Television, with the intention of entering the theatre. Newell directed various British TV shows from the 1960s onwards , credited as Cormac Newell, and Big Breadwinner Hog. However, he eventually graduated into film direction and then he went on to make the horror film The Awakening and Bad Blood about a New Zealand mass murderer. His first film was The Man in the Iron Mask , made for TV.
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