PETER CATTANEO
Date of Birth: 1964
British born director Peter Cattaneo graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1989. During his time at college, he gained hands-on experience working on a music video, which won a Sony Promo Award, a commercial for
Miller Lite and the award-winning and Oscar nominated live action short, Dear Rosie (1990).
Following his successful projects in college, he moved on to directing two different television series—Teenage Health Freak and The Full
Wax—while continuing his work on commercials.
After directing the telefilm Loved Up (1996), Cattaneo made an auspicious
feature debut with The Full Monty (1997), an endearingly offbeat look at how
far unemployed steel workers will go to make money - up to and including
dancing naked for women. Starring Robert Carlyle, the film became a
worldwide hit earning awards from festivals across the globe and yet another
Academy Award nomination for Cattaneo.
It took four years before finding another script worth following up on
his unexpected success. The script chosen, Lucky Break (2002), retained
the fish-out-of-water theme similar to that of The Full Monty. It
focused on inmates putting on an amateur play for the warden. Since then, he's directed the Australian family film Opal Dream (2005), and the American comedy, The Rocker (2008).
Filmography:
We're the Millers (2009)
The Rocker(2008)
Opal Dream (2005)
Lucky Break(2002)
The Full Monty (1997)
Dear Rosie (1990)