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Enigma, Chasing Mavericks. A key component of Apted's concerns was supporting his union, and he joined the Directors Guild of America in 1978, and became active in guild service in 1997, when he was first elected to the Western Directors Council. In 2001, he was elected to the National Board and became fifth vice president the following year. He also founded (alongside Steven Soderbergh) the Guild’s Independent Directors Committee in 1998, and served as chair until he was elected president of the guild. "Whether having the foresight as a young man to conceptualize the revolutionary Up...

Up documentary series and Oscar-nominated features including Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas in the Mist, has died at 79. His agency confirmed his death to EW, but no additional information was available. Apted first rose to prominence for his work on the groundbreaking Up films, which followed the lives of 14 Brits from different class backgrounds over the course of 56 years, in seven-year increments. Apted was a researcher on the first installment, 1964's Seven Up, and helmed the rest, concluding with 63 Up in 2019. Coal Miner's Daughter, Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a...

Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter and Up series director, dies at 79 Maureen Lee Lenker Michael Apted, the British filmmaker known for directing the long-running Up documentary series and Oscar-nominated features including Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas in the Mist, has died at 79. His agency confirmed his death to EW, but no additional information was available. Apted first rose to prominence for his work on the groundbreaking Up films, which followed the lives of 14 Brits from different class backgrounds over the course of 56 years, in seven-year increments. Apted...

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve…Read more Apted began his career in the 1960s, with Granada Television. Working as a researcher for the broadcaster, he gathered the school-age subjects for an episode of the current affairs program World In Action. That 1964 documentary, Seven Up!, depicted the lives of 14 seven-year-olds representing various British social classes; in 1970, those same children were profiled in a follow-up, 7 Plus Seven, this time directed by Apted. And so it was every seven years afterward, each subsequent ...

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the Up documentary series and filmslike the Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has died. He was 79.