Peter Cattaneo

Peter Cattaneo, MBE ( born 1964 in England ) is a British film director.

Peter Cattaneo, son of trick filmmaker Tony Cattaneo (* 1927, † 2003), was a student at the Royal College of Art in London for the first time with the craft of directing in contact. There he led, inter alia, directed in an award-winning music video, in a commercial for the Miller Brewing Company, as well as in Dear Rosie 1990, with which he was nominated at the Academy Awards in the category " Best Short Film ".

After graduating Cattaneo worked for the BBC, for which he at the production of the TV series Teenage Health Freak and The Full Wax ( both 1991) was involved. This idea was the 1995 two-parter Loved Up to.

Shortly thereafter, the script fell at The Full Monty in his hands. The film is in Germany better known under the title of The Full Monty (1997). With a worldwide box office earnings of $ 195 million with a construction period of only 40 days and a cost of only $ 3.5 million of the film one of the most successful comedies of the 1990s and was made ​​lead actor Robert Carlyle star. With the Academy Awards and was nominated in four categories, including for "Best Film" and Cattaneo for the " Best Director ", and won the trophy for "Best Music ". In addition, Cattaneo was appointed Member of the British Empire in 1998. Even with his follow-up project, the comedy Lucky Break of 2001, he had some success.