British cinema

www.britishfilm.org.uk

ENTERTAINMENT

VALUES

EDUCATIONAL

VALUES

100 YEARS

Reached its zenith in 1936

Zenith-the time at which something is most powerful or successful

Same page as the Oscars as they are equally prestigious.

VERY FIRST MOVING PICTURE

Louis Le Prince

In 1888

LEEDS

Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul

Movie in 1895

First Bitish Movie

Before the twentieth century, the British

film that were produced were more or less

like everyday events.

New genre of UK film industry

CHASE GENRE

Another noteworthy figure in the UK film industryCecil Hepworth

best known for his works in the

British silent for his works in the

British silent

French Lumière brothers in 1892

their show first came to London in 1896

in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor,

who patented the process in 1890.

At the end of the 19th America had started to do

this experiment on screen.

While in Britain Friese-Green was working hard at

doing much the same thing on a commercial basis.

devised the first colour system

Kinemacolor, in 1908

Jupp and Turner

Americans

were staring to make American films in Britain

lack of money in Britain saw the industry

slow down and by the mid twenties it

had practically stopped.

The British Watermark 1950 – 59

sold

Lime Grove Studios in West London

TO

IN 1949

Television was just beginning to have

an effect on the film industry

1950' and early 60's

The fifties saw the beginning of

the Angry Young Men of the mid-50s along with

the documentary films of everyday life commissioned by

during and after the Second World War

and are often associated with

RICHARD HARRIS

BRITISH INDUSTRY CHANGED A LOT IN THIS HOLDING ERA

the Americans began to take over and really never looked back.

American financed

American directors / producers

In terms of actors and actresses there are plenty

still begin discovered and Jude Law, Clive Owen,

Keira Knightly Christian Bale carry the candle.

The government needs to be serious about funding

and plough a great deal more into the film industry

and establish a quality British production company.

Alfred Hitchcock

David Lean- ordinary and epicKen Loach -

naturalistic, social

realist directing

style

Danny Boyle-

slumdog

millionaire

127hours

Charlie

Chaplin- The

Little Tramp

Ridley Scott- sci-ficNicolas Roeg- to

shatter reality into

a thousand pieces

Terence Davies- recurring

themes of emotional

endurance

Edgar Wright- trilogy

Cecil Antonio "Tony"

Richardson-British urban

working class

movies.amctv.com

Allen in 1970

Born: Allan Stewart Konigsberg[1]

December 1, 1935 (age 78)

The Bronx, New York, U.S.

Occupation: Actor, filmmaker, comedian,

musician, playwright

He has worked for more than 50years

He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s,

writing jokes and scripts for television and

publishing several books of short humor pieces.

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Allen has been nominated 24 times and won

four Academy Awards.

# 3 for Best Original Screenplay

and one for Best Director (Annie

Hall)

# He has more screenwriting

Academy Award nominations

than any other writer, and has

won nine British Academy of Film

and Television Arts Awards

Life-size statue of Woody Allen in Oviedo, Spain

Manhattan

Annie Hall

Love and Death

Sleeper

Crimes and Misdemeanours

Born: July 26, 1928

Manhattan, New

York City, USA

Died: March 7, 1999 (aged 70)

St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

#American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer,

and editor who did much of his work in the United Kingdom.

#Part of the New Hollywood film-making wave, he is regarded as one of

the greatest and most influential directors of all time

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Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Best Picture Barry Lyndon (1975)

Best Director Barry Lyndon (1975)

Best Writing,

Screenplay

Adapted From

Other MaterialBarry Lyndon

(1975)

Lolita

The Shining

Paths of Glory

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

Born: George Orson Welles

May 6, 1915 Kenosha,

Wisconsin, U.S.

Died: October 10, 1985 (aged 70)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater,

radio and film

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Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Citizen Kane (1941)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Citizen Kane (1941)

Best Director

Citizen Kane (1941)

F for Fake

Chimes at Midnight

Touch of Evil

Citizen Kane

Macbeth

Born: Charles Spencer Chaplin

16 April 1889 London, England (unverified)

Died: 25 December 1977 (aged 88)

Corsier-sur-Vevey, Vaud,Switzerland

English actor, comedian, and filmmaker who rose to fame

in the silent era.Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his

screen persona "the Tramp“ and is considered one of the

most important figures in the history of the film industry

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Best Music, Original Dramatic ScoreLimelight (1952)

Best Writing, Original ScreenplayMonsieur Verdoux (1947)

Best Actor in a Leading RoleThe Great Dictator (1940)

Best Writing, Original ScreenplayThe Great Dictator (1940)

The Circus

The Kid

City Lights

Modern Times

The Great Dictator

Born: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

13 August 1899

Leytonstone, Essex, England

Died: 29 April 1980 (aged 80)

Bel Air, California, United States

English film director and producer

Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning

six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker.

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Best Director Psycho (1960)

Best Director Rear Window (1954)

Best Director Spellbound (1945)

Best Director Lifeboat (1944)

Best Director - Motion Picture Frenzy (1972)

Dial M for Murder

Rear Window

The Birds

Psycho

Rebecca