Director Michael Apted. AP=Yonhap News
British filmmaker Michael Apted, who received the Peabody Award for the documentary series’Up’, passed away on the 7th (local time) at the age of 79.
According to AP and Reuters on the 8th, Apted’s agent said he died on the 7th at his home in Los Angeles, California.
Born in Aylesbury, England in 1941, Apted directed the drama’Coronation Street’ and the documentary’Up’ on Granada TV after graduating from Cambridge University.
In particular, Director Apted participated in the production of the documentary ‘7 Up’, which observed 14 children from 7 years old from various backgrounds in 1964, and then visited them every 7 years to capture how their lives are going.
Director Apted won the Peabody Award, which is called the Pulitzer Prize for broadcasting in 2012, for the’Up’ series.
In an interview with Slant Magazine in 2019, Apted said, “The Up Series was an attempt to view British society with a long-term perspective,” and “it was necessary to set an alarm for the class society.”
He said, “I want to continue (up shooting) as long as I have my breath,” but when he finally died, ’63 Up’, made in 2019, remained as the last series.
Apted’s directors who entered the film industry through’The Triple Echo’ (1972) were’Miner’s Daughter’ (1980),’A Gorilla in the Mist’ (1988),’Blink’ (1994), ‘007 Unlimited’ (1999). ,’Enough’ (2002),’Amazing Grace’ (2006),’The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn’ (2010), and’Spy Game’ (2017).
He served as president of the American Supervisory Association (DGA) from 2003 to 2009 and was awarded the 70th American Supervisory Association Award for Achievement in 2018.
On that day, DGA Chairman Thomas Schlamy mourned the deceased, saying, “He was a brave and visionary director.”
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