Peter Joseph Cattaneo MBE (born 1 July 1964) is a British filmmaker. He is most known for directing the comedy film ''

The Full Monty ''The Full Monty'' is a 1997 comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy. The film is set ...

'', for which he won the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker and was nominated for the

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Life and career

Cattaneo was brought up in

Twickenham Twickenham ( ) is a suburban district of London, England, on the River Thames southwest of Charing Cross. Historic counties of England, Historically in Middlesex, since 1965 it has formed part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, who ...

, London. His father was a London-born animator of Italian descent. After attending London College of Printing for an art foundation course, and Leeds Polytechnic for a BA in Graphic Design (Film), he graduated from the

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in 1989, he was nominated for the

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for '' Dear Rosie'' (1990). He went on to make his feature film debut with ''

'' (1997), which was a smash success both in the UK and internationally. The comedy grossed £160,049,344 at the box office on a £3 million budget and Cattaneo received a nomination for the

. Cattaneo has since directed several films, including ''Lucky Break'' (2001), '' Opal Dream'' (2006) and '' The Rocker'' (2008). He has also directed a multitude of commercials, as well as every episode of the award-winning comedy television series '' Rev.'' for

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. He was appointed a

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(MBE) in the

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"for services to the British Film Industry."United Kingdom list:

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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* 1964 births Alumni of Leeds Beckett University Alumni of the Northern Film School British comedy film directors English male screenwriters English people of Italian descent English television directors European Film Awards winners (people) Film directors from London Film producers from London Italian British film directors Living people People from Twickenham Members of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-film-director-stub