Mike Newell

British director and producer (born 1942)

2.95body-of-work score · ranked #377 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
March 28, 1942 · St Albans
Nationality
United Kingdom
Work
film director, film producer, television director, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Mike Newell
BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    1994 · United Kingdom · comedy, romance, drama

    BAFTA Best Film winner 1995 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1994 · BFI Top 100 British films #23

    2.105 citations
  2. 2

    1997 · United States · crime, drama, biography

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1997 #7 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.502 citations
  3. 3

    1985 · United Kingdom · drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1987 #6

    0.181 citation
  4. 4

    1985 · United Kingdom · biography, drama, crime

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 25 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1976Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill
  • 1977The Man in the Iron Mask
  • 1980The Awakening
  • 1982Bad Blood
  • 1982Birth of a Nation
  • 1983Blood Feud
  • 1985Dance with a Stranger
  • 1985The Good Father
  • 1987Amazing Grace and Chuck
  • 1988Soursweet
  • 1992Enchanted April
  • 1992Into the West
  • 1994Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • 1995An Awfully Big Adventure
  • 1997Donnie Brasco
  • 1999Pushing Tin
  • 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
  • 2002Jo
  • 2003Mona Lisa Smile
  • 2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • 2007Love in the Time of Cholera
  • 2010Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  • 2012Great Expectations
  • 2016The Interestings
  • 2018The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society