Peter Greenaway
British filmmaker and artist (born 1942)
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a British filmmaker and visual artist. He is known for making stylized films distinctly influenced of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Mannerist painting in particular. His notable feature films include The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), The Belly of an Architect (1987), Drowning by Numbers (1988), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Prospero's Books (1991), and Nightwatching (2007). Greenaway has also created works in other mediums, notably the multimedia Tulse Luper Suitcases, documentaries, and several video installations. In 2014, he received the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. The BFI's Screenonline website describes him as "a philosopher of cinema," and "an artist who is a believer...
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