Danny Boyle

This article is about the director. For other people with similar names, see Daniel Boyle (disambiguation).

Danny Boyle
Boyle in 2019
Born
Daniel Francis Boyle

(1956-10-20) 20 October 1956 (age 68)
Radcliffe, Lancashire, England
EducationThornleigh Salesian College
Alma materUniversity College of North Wales
(now Bangor University)
Occupations
  • Director
  • producer
Years active1980–present
Known for
AwardsFull list

Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on films including Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996) and its sequel T2 Trainspotting (2017), The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), 127 Hours (2010), Steve Jobs (2015), and Yesterday (2019).

Boyle's debut film Shallow Grave won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. The British Film Institute ranked Trainspotting the 10th greatest British film of the 20th century. Boyle's 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, the most successful British film of the decade, was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director. He also won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire.

In 2012 Boyle was the artistic director for Isles of Wonder, the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was subsequently offered a knighthood as part of the New Year Honours but declined due to his republican beliefs.

Early life and education

Danny Francis Boyle was born on 20 October 1956,[1] in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England, about 6 mi (9.7 km) north of Manchester's city centre, to Irish parents Frank and Annie Boyle, both from County Galway. He has a twin sister, Marie, and a younger sister, Bernadette, both of whom are teachers.[2][3]

Although he now describes himself as a "spiritual atheist,"[4] he was brought up in a working-class Catholic family. Boyle was an altar boy for eight years and his mother had the priesthood in mind for him, but at the age of 14 he was persuaded by a priest not to transfer to a seminary.[5]

Whether he was saving me from the priesthood or the priesthood from me, I don't know. But quite soon after, I started doing drama. And there's a real connection, I think. All these directors – Martin Scorsese, John Woo, M. Night Shyamalan – they were all meant to be priests. There's something very theatrical about it. It's basically the same job – poncing around, telling people what to think.[6][7]

Boyle attended Thornleigh Salesian College, a Catholic boys' direct grant grammar school in Bolton,[8] and studied English and drama at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University), where he directed several productions for the student drama society.[2][9]

Career

Theatre and television

Boyle with the cast of The Children's Monologues in 2010

Upon graduating from university he began his career at the Joint Stock Theatre Company before moving on to the Royal Court Theatre in 1982 where he directed The Genius by Howard Brenton and Saved by Edward Bond. He also directed five productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company.[10]

In 1987 Boyle started working in television as a producer for BBC Northern Ireland where he produced, amongst other TV films, Alan Clarke's controversial Elephant before becoming a director on shows such as Arise And Go Now, Not Even God Is Wise Enough, For The Greater Good, Scout, and two episodes of Inspector Morse.[11]

Boyle was responsible for the BBC Two series Mr. Wroe's Virgins in 1993.[10] In between The Beach and 28 Days Later Boyle directed two TV films for the BBC in 2001–Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise and Strumpet.[12]

In 2011 he directed Frankenstein for the National Theatre.[13] This production was broadcast to cinemas as a part of National Theatre Live on 17 March 2011.[14] He has also appeared on Top Gear and set the fastest wet lap at that time.[15] In 2014 both Boyle and Christian Colson signed to a first look deal with FX Productions.[16]

Boyle was announced to be directing a dance adaptation of The Matrix, titled "Free Your Mind", set to debut in October 2023 in Manchester.[17]

The Children's Monologues

Main article: The Children's Monologues

On 14 November 2010, he directed a one-night play at the Old Vic Theatre titled The Children's Monologues starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Gemma Arterton, and Eddie Redmayne, in aid of his charity Dramatic Need, which operates in Rwanda and South Africa, helping young people to come to terms with trauma and conflict.[18] He co-directed another performance of the play in 2015 at the Royal Court Theatre,[19] and again in 2017 at Carnegie Hall in New York City.[20]

Isles of Wonder

Prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

Boyle was artistic director for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London. Entitled Isles of Wonder, it charted aspects of British culture including the Industrial Revolution and contributions to literature, music, film, and technology.[21]

Reception to the ceremony was generally positive both nationally in the United Kingdom and internationally.[22][23][24][25]

Pistol

On 11 January 2021, it was announced that Boyle would be adapting the Steve Jones' autobiography Lonely Boy into a six-part TV series entitled Pistol that charts the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols. The series aired on FX and Disney+ on 30 May 2022,[26] and stars Emma Appleton, Louis Partridge and Maisie Williams, amongst others. The show was filmed in London.[27]

Film

Boyle's love for film began with his first viewing of Apocalypse Now:

It had eviscerated my brain, completely. I was an impressionable twenty-one-year-old guy from the sticks. My brain had not been fed and watered with great culture, you know, as art is meant to do. It had been sandblasted by the power of cinema. And that's why cinema, despite everything we try to do, it remains a young man's medium, really, in terms of audience.[28]

1990s: Shallow Grave and Trainspotting

The first film Boyle directed was Shallow Grave.[10] The film was the most commercially successful British film of 1995,[29] won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, and led to the production of Trainspotting.[30] Working with writer John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald, Shallow Grave earned Boyle the Best Newcomer Award from the 1996 London Film Critics Circle.[29] Critics credited these films with revitalising British cinema in the early '90s.[10] The BFI ranked Trainspotting the 10th greatest British film of the 20th century.[31]

Boyle declined an offer to direct the fourth film of the Alien franchise to make A Life Less Ordinary.[32][33]

2000s: The Beach, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire

Boyle's next project was a film adaptation of the cult novel The Beach by Alex Garland. Filmed in Thailand with Leonardo DiCaprio, casting of the film led to a feud with Ewan McGregor.[10] He then collaborated with Garland on the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later.[34]

Boyle at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

He also directed a short film Alien Love Triangle (starring Kenneth Branagh), which was intended to be one of three shorts within a feature film. However the project was cancelled after the two other shorts were made into feature films: Mimic starring Mira Sorvino and Impostor starring Gary Sinise.[35] In 2004 Boyle directed Millions,[6] scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce.[36] His next collaboration with Alex Garland[6] was the 2007 science-fiction film Sunshine, featuring 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy.[37]

In 2008 he directed Slumdog Millionaire, the story of an impoverished child (Dev Patel) on the streets of Mumbai, India, who competes on the local version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, for which Boyle won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Director. The most successful British film of the decade, the film won eight Academy Awards and seven BAFTA Awards.[38][39] Boyle commented, "To be a film-maker...you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different."[10] Andrew Macdonald, producer of Trainspotting, said "Boyle takes a subject that you've often seen portrayed realistically, in a politically correct way, whether it's junkies or slum orphans, and he has managed to make it realistic but also incredibly uplifting and joyful."[10] The success led a deal with Fox Searchlight.[40]

Despite the commercial success of Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle also faced great criticism for his portrayal of India through a Western, idealized lens. Some critics saw the film as "poverty porn," though Boyle argued he showed India's "lust for life" and "resilience."[41]

2010s: 127 Hours, Steve Jobs and T2 Trainspotting

In 2010, Boyle directed the film 127 Hours, starring James Franco and featuring Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara. It was based on Aron Ralston's autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place, which detailed his struggle of being trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone in Bluejohn Canyon, southeastern Utah. The film was released on 5 November 2010 to critical acclaim and got six nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Boyle and Best Actor for Franco.[42][43]

The film team of T2 Trainspotting at the Berlinale 2017

Boyle's next film was Trance, starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson. It has been reported another instalment of the 28 Days Later franchise is in the development stages.[44][45] Boyle has stated previously that in theory the third instalment of the series would be titled 28 Months Later, but alluded to a film taking place somewhere else in the world he created in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. He was also stated to be producing the upcoming film Paani.[46]

Boyle told an interviewer about the eclectic range of his films, "There's a theme running through all of them—and I just realised this. They're all about someone facing impossible odds and overcoming them."[47] With a strong interest in music, Boyle has mentioned in interviews that he has considered a musical film with original compositions. Boyle has also expressed interest in an animated film.[48]

Boyle's eponymous biopic of Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs closed the 59th BFI London Film Festival. It was the third time Boyle has had that honour, after Slumdog Millionaire in 2008 and 127 Hours two years later. The BFI's London Film Festival Director, Clare Stewart, said Boyle had created an exhilarating and audacious film about a complex, charismatic pioneer.[49] He then directed the sequel to Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting.[50]

In a BBC interview, Boyle stated that he didn't write his own films but they did reflect his personality. "I am not a big auteur fan and like to work with writers, but ultimately a film is a director's vision, because he gets all its elements together towards that vision."[51]

In March 2018, Boyle confirmed he would be directing the then-untitled twenty-fifth James Bond film (later known as No Time to Die)[52] but dropped out that August due to a dispute over the film's script.[53][54]

He and writer Richard Curtis collaborated on Yesterday, starring Himesh Patel, Kate McKinnon, Lily James, and Ed Sheeran, released on 28 June 2019.[55]

Personal life

While at university, Boyle dated actress Frances Barber.[56]

Boyle is a constitutional republican.[57] He lives in Mile End, London.[58]

Other activities

Boyle was a founding trustee[59] in 2007.[60] of Dramatic Need, a charity which operated in Rwanda and South Africa, helping young people to come to terms with trauma and conflict.[18] The charity was wound up in November 2021.[61]

As of 2008 Boyle was the patron of North West-based young people's substance misuse charity, Early Break, which was founded and based in his home town of Radcliffe. [62]

In 2014, it was announced that Boyle would become a patron of HOME in Manchester.[63]

In February 2017, Boyle announced a bid to launch a £30 million film and media school in Manchester.[64] Manchester School of Digital Arts was subsequently launched in June 2022 as part of Manchester Metropolitan University.[65]

Recognition

In 2010, The Tablet named Boyle one of Britain's most influential Roman Catholics.[66]

The BBC referred to Boyle as a "titan of the British film industry – renowned for his spunky grit – typified by his 1996 film Trainspotting."[67]

In 2012, Boyle was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, to celebrate the British cultural figures of his lifetime.[68][69]

In December 2012 it was widely reported that Boyle turned down a knighthood in the New Year Honours list. He told BBC Radio 4 "I'm very proud to be an equal citizen and I think that's what the opening ceremony was actually about."[70][71]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Danny Boyle

Boyle's awards include:

Year Title Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards
Nominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins
1994 Shallow Grave 1
1996 Trainspotting 1 2 1
2008 Slumdog Millionaire 10 8 11 6 4 4
2010 127 Hours 6 8 3
2015 Steve Jobs 2 3 1 4 2
Total 19 8 25 8 11 6

Theatre

Assistant stage manager

Year Title Theater
1978 The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Joint Stock Theatre Company

Assistant director

Year Title Theater
1981 The Seagull Royal Court Theatre

Director

Year Title Theater
1982 The Genius Royal Court Theatre
1984-85 Saved
1985-86 The Grace of Mary Traverse
1988-89 The Bite of the Night Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theater
1989 The Silent Woman Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
1989 H.I.D Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre
1989-90 The Second Line Cambridge Arts Theatre
1990-91 The Last Days of Don Juan Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon,
Barbican Theater, Newcastle Playhouse, Pit
1991-92 The Pretenders Barbican Theater
2010 The Children's Monologues The Old Vic
2011 Frankenstein Royal National Theatre
2023 Free Your Mind[72] The Factory

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Producer Writer
1994 Shallow Grave Yes No No
1996 Trainspotting Yes No No
1997 A Life Less Ordinary Yes No No
2000 The Beach Yes No No
2002 28 Days Later Yes No No
2004 Millions Yes No No
2007 Sunshine Yes No No
2008 Slumdog Millionaire Yes No No
2010 127 Hours Yes Yes Yes
2013 Trance Yes Yes No
2015 Steve Jobs Yes Yes No
2017 T2 Trainspotting Yes Yes No
Battle of the Sexes No Yes No
2019 Yesterday Yes Yes No
2025 28 Years Later Yes Yes Yes
TBA 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple No Yes Yes

Short film

Executive producer

Television

Year Title Director Producer Writer Notes
1989 Elephant No Yes No TV short
1989–1993 Screenplay Yes No No 3 episodes
1990–1992 Inspector Morse Yes No No 2 episodes
1993 Mr Wroe's Virgins Yes No No 3 episodes
2012 Isles of Wonder Yes No Yes Olympics opening ceremony
2014 Babylon Yes Yes No Episode: "Pilot"
2017 The Alternativity Yes Yes No Play of Banksy
2018 Trust Yes Yes No 3 episodes
2022 Pistol Yes Yes No Miniseries

TV movies

Year Title Director Producer
1987 Scout Yes No
The Venus de Milo Instead Yes No
The Rockingham Shoot No Yes
1989 Monkeys Yes Yes
The Nightwatch Yes Yes
1991 For the Greater Good Yes No
2001 Strumpet Yes No
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise Yes No

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