Case Studies

Anna Karenina

Plot: Anna Karenina is a 2012 film set in late 19th century Russia high society, Anna   and she enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

Box Office Success: with a Budget of £31 million and a Box office success of $53,681,018 around the world, Anna Karenina did extremely well in the film market.

Reception: upon the release of the film it has got mostly positive reviews, with critics praising the acting (specifically Keira Knightley) and the production design, but fell behind in terms of the script. On Rotten Tomatoes the film received a 63 out of 100 overall.

Nominations and awards: it's been up for 23 awards, 8 of them the film won.

Seven Psychopaths

Plot: a comedy following the life of a struggling screenwriter, who becomes entangled in the LA criminal underworld, with his group of friends and his beloved Shih Zu.

Box Office Success: seven psychopaths had a $15 million budget, and overall in the box office the film made $23,492,318.

Reception: the film received generally positive reviews by varying film critics, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 82% based on the 194 reviews it received on the site (with an average rating of 7/10).

Nominations and awards: this film has been up for four awards in total, nominated 3 times and won once.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Plot: a group of British retirees head off to India, to what they think will be an extremely luxurious hotel. Due down to false advertising it was not as luxury as they were hoping for, though it begins to charm the group in unexpected ways.

Box Office Success: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had a budget of $10 million, and in the box office the film itself made an amazing amount of $134,388,807.

Nominations and awards: it has been up for 12 awards in total, and is nominated for all of those awards.

BAFTA research

BAFTA

What is BAFTA?

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in cinema, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.

What are the awards?

Who won what?

Special Visual Effects: Life of Pi

Leading Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis- Lincoln

Editing: Argo- William Goldenberg

Short Film: Swimmer- Lynne Ramsay

Costume Design: Anna Karenina- Jacqueline Durran

Film (not English Language): Amour- Michael Haneke

Leading Actress: Emmanuelle Riva- Amour

Production Design: Les Miserables

Short Animation: The Making Of Longbird- Will Anderson

Original Screenplay: Django Unchained- Queintin Tarantino

Outstanding Contribution to Cinema in 2013: Tessa Ross

Film in 2013: Argo- Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney

Supporting Actor: Christroph Waltz- Django Unchained

Fellowship in 2013: Sir Alan Parker

Sound in 2013: Les Miserables

Outstanding British Film in 2013:

Director 2013: Ben Affleck- Argo

EE Rising Star: Juno Temple

Cinematography: Life of Pi- Claudio Miranda

Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook-David O. Russell

Make-up and Hair: Les Miserables

Documentary: Searching For Sugar Man- Malik Bendejelloul

Animated Film: Brave- Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman

Outstanding Debut: Bart Layton, Dimitri- The Imposter

Original Film Music: Skyfall- Thomas Newman

Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway- Les Miserables

How many British winners were there?

Les Miserables

Skyfall

Searching for Sugar Man

Swimmer

Lincoln

(5 winners were British)

 British Winners

Les Miserables- Les Miserables is a British musical drama film, and is the book adaption of Victor Hugo’s 1862 French novel. This film was produced by Working Title Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are now the co-owners of the company, and with this in mind, this is one of the reasons Les Mis is classed as a British film.

Swimmer- Swimmer is an 18 minute long short film, following a young man as he swims through the lakes and rivers of Britain, continually tracking his journey along the way. Swimmer was directed by Lynne Ramsay, a graduate from the National Film Television school in the year 1995.

Lincoln- Although the film itself is about American story and is produced and directed by American producer and director ‘Steven Spielberg’, the main actor in the film (Daniel-Day Lewis) is British, which in turn, you could argue, makes the film British.

Tessa Ross Research

Tessa Ross  CBE (born 1961) is a BAFTA award winning UK film executive who is controller of film and drama at Channel 4.

She has been the executive producer of several notable British films including; Billy Elliot (2000), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Four Lions (2010) and The Iron Lady (2011). In the 2010 New Year Honours she was awarded the CBE for services to broadcasting.