Peter Greenaway

Greenaway is a filmmaker I admire precisely because he refuses to be likable. Trained as a painter, he treats the frame as a canvas, stacking symmetry, numbers, color and catalogues until narrative becomes almost secondary. Films like The Draughtsman's Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover are gorgeous, cold and deliberately confrontational. He is not for everyone, and that is the point. In an era of focus-grouped storytelling, his stubborn, formalist obsession feels rare and oddly bracing. I think of him as a magnificent eccentric who keeps cinema strange, and I respect him deeply for it.

Name (English)

Peter Greenaway

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・グリーナウェイ

Reading

ぴーたー・ぐりーなうぇい

Born

April 5, 1942 (age 84)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Newport, United Kingdom

Occupation

theatre director / film director / writer / experimental artist / screenwriter

University

Walthamstow College of Art

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2007 Golden Calf for Best Script
• 1980 Sutherland Trophy
• 2014 BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
• 1989 Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
• 2001 Time Machine Award
• 2014 Annual award ACFK

• Official sitehttps://www.luperpediafoundation.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/Greenaway_Peter
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Greenaway
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55282

Tags

• theatre director
• film director
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-21

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