Curtis' wife Elizabeth McGovern has a small role as a court judge in the film.Ĭurtis directed the 2019 feature film adaptation of Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, starring Milo Ventimiglia and Amanda Seyfried. In 2015, Curtis directed and executive produced the biographical film Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann, a Holocaust survivor attempting to recover a portrait of her aunt painted by Gustav Klimt which was stolen from her family by the Nazis and had eventually become property of the government of Austria, and closely connected to Austrian identity. My Week with Marilyn was filmed in late 2010 and released in November 2011. Curtis then approached Harvey Weinstein who financed the film. Curtis and Parfitt went to BBC Films and the UK Film Council and they put up the money for development. Adrian Hodges wrote and adapted the screenplay for the film called My Week with Marilyn. In 2004, Curtis approached producer David Parfitt about making a film based on The Prince, The Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn two diary accounts written by Colin Clark about his time with Marilyn Monroe. A Short Stay in Switzerland was nominated for Best Single Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards and the British Academy Television Awards. Anne Turner, who decided to take her own life at a Dignitas clinic in 2006. The drama, featuring Julie Walters, was based on the true story of Dr. In August 2008, Curtis directed the one-off television drama A Short Stay in Switzerland for the BBC. Titled Return to Cranford, the episodes were aired from 20 December 2009. In June 2009, Curtis directed two new episodes of Cranford for the Christmas period. He directed the BBC's adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford in 2007. The serial is an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 20,000 Streets Under the Sky novels. He also directed the three-part television drama Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky for BBC Four in 2005. In 1996, Curtis directed episodes of the television comedy series Tracey Takes On. In 2010, Curtis directed Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. Theatre productions Curtis has worked on include the world premiere of Road, A Lie of the Mind, Roots, Dinner with Friends and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. He later became assistant director to both Danny Boyle and Max Stafford-Clark. His first job was assistant director for Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. Curtis began his career working at the Royal Court Theatre.
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