Turner film timothy spall biography

film by Mike Leigh

This article is about the film. For people with this surname, see Turner (surname).

Mr. Turner is a biographicaldrama film based on the last 25 years of the life of artist J.

M. W. Turner (–).

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Written and directed by Mike Leigh, the film stars Timothy Spall in the title role, with Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, and Martin Savage. Leigh called Turner "a great artist: a radical, revolutionary painter", and said, "I felt there was scope for a film examining the tension between this very mortal, flawed individual, and the epic work, the spiritual way he had of distilling the world".^[6]

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Turner premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival,^[7] where Spall won the award for Best Actor^[8] and Dick Pope received a special jury prize for the film's cinematography.^[9] The film was critically acclaimed and received four nominations each at the 87th Aca