Nikon Film and Photo Contest
2024-2025 Judges

Biography

Mike Figgis is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and composer based in London.
After studying and performing music and touring extensively with the experimental performance group PEOPLE SHOW, Mike started directing films and made his breakthrough with Stormy Monday.
His body of work includes the films Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas (for which he received 2 Oscar nominations), Miss Julie & Timecode (the first real-time digital film ever made); episodes of The Sopranos & The Affair; the opera Lucrezia Borgia and the books Digital Filmmaking & The 36 Dramatic Situations for Film which address the challenges of the new cinema and story structure.
His latest work, a documentary chronicling the making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic film Megalopolis is in the final stages of post-production and will be released soon. Mike currently has two films and a television show in pre-production.