Ken Loach

Known for: Kes (1969), I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Ken Loach has maintained a practice of social realist cinema and television in Britain since the 1960s, consistently working with non-professional actors and naturalistic dialogue to document the lives of the British working class. Kes (1969) remains one of the most admired British films of the postwar period. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice — for The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) — at an age when most directors have retired.