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Iain Softley

Highest Rated: 86% The Wings of the Dove (1997)

Lowest Rated: 25% Trap for Cinderella (2013)

Birthday: Nov 30, 1956

Birthplace: London, England, UK

London-born Iain Softley managed to parlay his early love of music and painting into a career as a feature film director. Directing and designing theater productions as a student at Queen's College, Cambridge, made him realize his vision lent itself more to film, and he turned to the small screen, working first for a documentary unit of Granada TV. Softley then joined the BBC and created 30 "auteur documentaries" for television before becoming a successful director of music videos. While still at the BBC, he started looking for a rites-of-passage story to make into a feature film and came upon photographs of ex-Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, who quit to become a visual artist in Germany before the band became famous. Those pictures became the inspiration for his debut "Backbeat" (1992). That film opened the door for his first US movie "Hackers" (1995), about teens wreaking havoc in cyberspace.

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Highest-Rated Movies

86% 78% The Wings of the Dove
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68% 67% Backbeat
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42% 74% K-PAX
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39% 45% Inkheart
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37% 58% The Skeleton Key
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33% 68% Hackers
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25% 24% Trap for Cinderella
Watchlist 62% The Shepherd Watchlist
26% Curve
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Iain Softley

Iain Softley INKHEART, from left: director Iain Softley, producer Cornelia Funke, on set, 2008. ©New Line Cinema THE SKELETON KEY, director Iain Softley on set, 2005, © Universal / HACKERS, Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Iain Softley, 1996, director and actors discuss the scene between on the set INKHEART, director Iain Softley, on set, 2008. ©New Line Cinema THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, director Iain Softley, on set, 1997. ©Miramax INKHEART, from left: Paul Bettany, Brendan Fraser, director Iain Softley, on set, 2008. ©New Line Cinema View more photos

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The Shepherd 62% 2023 Director, Screenwriter Curve 26% 2015 Director Trap for Cinderella 25% 24% 2013 Director, Screenwriter Inkheart 39% 45% 2008 Director, Producer The Skeleton Key 37% 58% 2005 Director K-PAX 42% 74% 2001 Director The Wings of the Dove 86% 78% 1997 Director Hackers 33% 68% 1995 Director, Executive Producer Backbeat 68% 67% 1994 Director
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