Question: Where did the director that gave Sally Hawkins her first film debut study?

Context articles: Empire Award for Best Supporting Actress
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)
Mat Kirkby
The Shape of Water (film)
Happy Ever Afters
List of accolades received by Blue Jasmine
Sally Hawkins
Submarine (2010 film)
Godzilla (2014 film)
Mike Leigh

The Empire Award for Best Supporting Actress is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine "Empire" to honor an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry.
 The Empire Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 19th Empire Awards ceremony in 2014 (along with Best Supporting Actor) with Sally Hawkins receiving the award for her role in "Blue Jasmine".
 Winners are voted by the readers of "Empire" magazine.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an upcoming American monster film directed by Michael Dougherty and written by Dougherty, Zach Shields, and Max Borenstein.
 It is the sequel to 2014's "Godzilla" and will be the 33rd film in the "Godzilla" franchise, the third film in Legendary's MonsterVerse, and the third "Godzilla" film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio.
 Despite the film's title, it is unrelated to the 1956 film of the same name.
 The film stars Vera Farmiga, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Thomas Middleditch, Charles Dance, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Aisha Hinds and Zhang Ziyi, and is scheduled to be released on March 22, 2019 in 2D, 3D, and select IMAX, except in Japan where it will be distributed by Toho.
Mat Kirkby is an English filmmaker.
 In 2015, he won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for directing "The Phone Call", starring Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent.
 Kirkby wrote the film with his colleague James Lucas who both had family who worked on helplines.
 The short had its world premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.
 He began his career as a director of commercials and music videos for artists including Adele, Muse and Basement Jaxx.
The Shape of Water is a 2017 American romantic fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor.
 The film stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer.
 It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival and premiered on August 31, 2017, where it was awarded the Golden Lion for best film in the competition.
 It also screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
 "The Shape of Water" has been met with high praise from critics, with many declaring it Del Toro's best film since "Pan's Labyrinth" and particularly praising Sally Hawkins' performance.
 It is scheduled for release in the United States on December 8, 2017.
Happy Ever Afters is an Irish film written and directed by Stephen Burke and starring Sally Hawkins and Tom Riley.
 The film was first shown at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea on 10 October and released on 21 October 2009 in France.
 It tells the story of two weddings that collide when both receptions are held at one hotel.
"Blue Jasmine" is a 2013 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen.
 It stars Cate Blanchett as a New York socialite, Jeanette "Jasmine" French, who falls into poverty and homelessness.
 Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K., Bobby Canavale, Andrew Dice Clay and Sally Hawkins feature in supporting roles.
 The film premiered in six theaters in New York and Los Angeles on July 26, 2013.
 Sony Picture Classics later gave it a wide release on August 23, in more than 1,200 theaters in the United States and Canada.
 The film has grossed a worldwide total of more than $97 million on a production budget of $18 million.
Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress.
 She made her film debut in Mike Leigh's "All or Nothing" in 2002.
 She continued working with Leigh, appearing in "Vera Drake" (2004) and in "Happy-Go-Lucky" (2008), for which she won several awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
Submarine is a 2010 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne.
 The film was written and directed by Richard Ayoade, and starred Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins.
 "Submarine" is Ayoade's directorial debut.
Godzilla is a 2014 American monster film directed by Gareth Edwards and a reboot of Toho's "Godzilla" franchise.
 It is the 30th film in the "Godzilla" franchise, the first film in Legendary's MonsterVerse, and the second "Godzilla" film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio, the first being the 1998 film of the same name.
 It stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, and Bryan Cranston.
Mike Leigh OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
 He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design.
 He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s.
 In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style.
 His well-known films include the comedy-dramas "Life is Sweet" (1990) and "Career Girls" (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film "Topsy-Turvy" (1999), and the bleak working-class drama "All or Nothing" (2002).
 His most notable works are the black comedy-drama "Naked" (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Palme d'Or-winning drama "Secrets & Lies" (1996), the Golden Lion winning working-class drama "Vera Drake" (2004), and the Palme d'Or nominated biopic "Mr. Turner" (2014).
 Some of his notable stage plays include "Smelling A Rat", "It's A Great Big Shame", "Greek Tragedy", "Goose-Pimples", "Ecstasy", and "Abigail's Party".