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Daniel "Danny" Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire. On 17 June 2010, it was announced that he will be the Artistic Director for the 2012 Olympic games opening ceremony.
Boyle was born on 20 October 1956 in Radcliffe, Lancashire, (now in the modern day metropolitan borough of Bury, Greater Manchester) into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe in County Galway, and his father was born in England to an Irish family.
It was a very strict, Catholic family. I was an altar boy for eight years, I was supposed to be a priest and really, it was my mother's fondest wish that I would become one.
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Actors: Rod Stoneman (producer), Margaret Thatcher (actress), Jim Sheridan (producer), Helen Mirren (producer), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), Helen Mirren (actress), Gerard McSorley (actor), John Kavanagh (actor), John Lynch (actor), Aidan Gillen (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Craig McKay (editor), Jim Sheridan (writer),
Plot: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, anti-violence, archive-footage, armored-car, arrest, assassination, attempted-murder, bar, bartender