From All Movie Guide: One of Britain's most celebrated breakthrough talents of the '90s, director and producer Danny Boyle made his name with his acclaimed 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. An angry, scabrously funny film about a group of Edinburgh heroin addicts that took a non-judgmental approach to drug use, the film won equal parts praise and controversy, as well as lasting fame for its director.

Boyle was born in Manchester, England, on October 20, 1956. Somewhat ironically -- given that he didn't set foot in a theatre until he was 18 -- he started his career in the theatre, as it seemed to him the most accessible way of getting into the arts. He first worked with the Joint Stock Theatre Company and then with the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, where he was the Artistic Director from 1982 until 1985. In 1985, he became the Deputy Director of the Royal Court Theatre, where he stayed until 1987.

During the '80s, Boyle also began directing for television, making TV films and serials. He made his feature directorial debut with Shallow Grave in 1994. A stylish, darkly humorous psychological thriller set in a posh flat in Edinburgh's New Town, it was the first collaboration between director Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. It received strong reviews on both sides of the Atlantic and was a commercial success in Britain. Two years later, Boyle, Macdonald, and Hodge (along with Ewan McGregor, who had starred in Shallow Grave) re-teamed to make Trainspotting. The huge success of the film -- it became the U.K.'s second most popular film in history to date, after Four Weddings and a Funeral -- propelled its makers and star McGregor into the international spotlight, and it became one of the most provocative and talked-about films of the decade.

Boyle followed up Trainspotting in 1997 with another Hodge-Macdonald-McGregor collaboration, A Life Less Ordinary. A romantic comedy featuring karaoke and a pair of ferocious angels (Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo), it starred McGregor and Cameron Diaz as mismatched lovers at odds with the law and each other. Despite the anticipation surrounding the film, it met with heavily mixed reviews and virtually dissipated at the box office. That same year, Boyle served as executive producer for Twin Town, a surprisingly popular Welsh film that featured much of the rough-edged humor of Boyle's previous work.?

After passing up the opportunity to direct the fourth Alien movie, Boyle opted to make The Beach (2000), an adaptation of Alex Garland's acclaimed novel of the same name. A story of paradise gone wrong, it was shot in Thailand and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as a young American who encounters the darker side of human nature while backpacking through Asia. Though it was anticipated to be quite a big film for Boyle, The Beach ultimately suffered from not only a severe critical backlash but also incurred the wrath of Garland fans by altering the bleak ending of the novel for a more safe mainstream coda. If A Life Less Ordinary had disappointed fans, The Beach made them out and out angry, and for his next two films, Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise and Strumpet (both 2001), Boyle would go back to the basics. Even if neither of those films ultimately received wide release (they were shot for U.K. television), they did offer Boyle the chance to return to his low-budget roots and experiment with digital video -- which was the format he would eventually turn to for his next wide-release effort, 28 Days Later.

Perhaps his most successful and widely embraced film since Trainspotting, 28 Days Later offered a harrowing vision of a post-apocalyptic London ravaged by the terrifying effects of a "rage virus." A sort of updating of the George A. Romero zombie mainstays, Boyle's film differed in that unlike the creatures in Night of the Living Dead and its sequels, the creatures in this film did not stagger mindlessly but attacked their victims with violent vengeance. A critical and financial success both in the U.K. and the U.S., 28 Days Later scored a direct hit at the box office, thanks to its energetic thrills and healthy word of mouth. On a curious historical note, the film became something of a rarity when, months after its initial stateside release in June of 2003, it was rereleased into theaters with an alternate ending attached to the last reel.

After a brief return to short films with the sci-fi themed comedy Alien Love Triangle, Boyle returned to feature-film territory with a Millions, a comedy drama concerning two boys who -- despite having the good fortune of stumbling across a healthy sum of money stolen from a nearby bank -- must quickly spend the money before the U.K. switches to the Euro.

He reteamed with Cillian Murphy in 2007 for the sci-fi film Sunshine, but it was 2008's Slumdog Millionaire that made him an internationally known filmmaker. The tale of love and struggle and game shows in India swept the year end award race capturing Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. He returned to the awards race two years later with the gripping drama 127 Hours. He had a hit on stage directing a version of Frankenstein in which Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch would regularly swap the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Monster.?

滬江快訊：倫敦奧運(yùn)會(huì)開幕式精彩紛呈，高潮迭起，除了開幕式藝術(shù)團(tuán)隊(duì)的無限創(chuàng)意和大量表演者的努力表演，作為開幕式藝術(shù)總導(dǎo)演，丹尼·博伊爾（Danny Boyel）自然也是功不可沒。同張藝謀的中國電影導(dǎo)演身份一樣一樣，博伊爾也是著名英國本土導(dǎo)演，1956年10月20日出生于英格蘭曼徹斯特的他執(zhí)導(dǎo)了不少優(yōu)秀電影作品，如1994年執(zhí)導(dǎo)的黑色幽默心理驚悚片《同屋三分驚》，以及之后與麥克唐納和霍奇（以及在《同屋三分驚》中擔(dān)當(dāng)主演的伊萬·麥格雷戈）再次合作的電影《猜火車》，都使他獲得國際矚目。1997年，他們?cè)俣群献髁死寺矂　赌阈形宜亍贰?000年，他在泰國拍攝了電影《海灘》，這部電影由列昂那多·迪卡普里奧主演，該片講述一位美國年輕人在亞洲背包客旅行時(shí)看到的人性中黑暗的一面。雖然該片被譽(yù)為博伊爾的大制作，但卻因改編了原小說結(jié)局而遭到了讀者的詬病。2001年，博伊爾回歸小成本制作，并開始嘗試數(shù)字?jǐn)z影，他拍攝了《赤裸的真空天堂》和《妓女》兩部電影。之后他的電影《28日后》獲得極高贊譽(yù)，這部僵尸恐怖電影注重描述人性，情節(jié)發(fā)人省醒。04、07年他分別拍攝了《百萬小富翁》和《太陽浩劫》。接著2008年，他執(zhí)導(dǎo)的電影《平民窟的百萬富翁》在國際上獲得巨大成功，并獲得了奧斯卡八項(xiàng)大獎(jiǎng)。2010年他又執(zhí)導(dǎo)了電影《127小時(shí)》。由于他的電影作品想像力豐富，以鮮明的視覺風(fēng)格著稱，倫敦奧組委最終選擇了博伊爾作為2012倫敦夏季奧運(yùn)會(huì)的藝術(shù)總導(dǎo)演，而他也不負(fù)眾望，為全世界帶來了一場(chǎng)無與倫比的人文與藝術(shù)盛宴！