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Billy Elliot
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*Billy Elliot* is a 2000 British comedy drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall. The cast includes Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, and Jamie Draven. Produced by BBC Film and StudioCanal, the film was distributed by Universal Pictures. It is set in London and County Durham during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
The film has a runtime of 111 minutes and was released in 2000. It received the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and was named to the National Board of Review's Top Ten Films. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It also received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Film. A derivative work, *Billy Elliot the Musical*, was created from the film.
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Film · TMDB
7.6County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
Cast
- Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot
- Gary Lewis as Jackie Elliot
- Julie Walters as Mrs Wilkinson
- Jean Heywood as Grandma
- Jamie Draven as Tony Elliot
- Stuart Wells as Michael Caffrey
Themes
- dancing
- friendship
- dreams
- dancing class
- northern england
- workers' quarter
- strike
- homophobia
- hope
- mentor
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
151,189 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
Metacritic
74/100
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 3 Oscars. 55 wins & 71 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Stephen Daldry
- Written by
- Lee Hall
- Produced by
- Greg Brenman Jon Finn
- Starring
- Julie Walters Gary Lewis Jamie Bell Jamie Draven Adam Cooper
- Cinematography
- Brian Tufano
- Edited by
- John Wilson
- Music by
- Stephen Warbeck
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures StudioCanal BBC Films Working Title Films Tiger Aspect Pictures
- Distributed by
- United International Pictures
- Release date
- 29 September 2000 ( 2000-09-29 )
- Running time
- 110 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $5 million
- Box office
- $109.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 13th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- stereotype
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Screenwriter
- Lee Hall
- Cast member
- Fred Astaire
- Composer
- Stephen Warbeck
- Production company
- StudioCanal
- Cinematographer
- Brian Tufano
- Narrative location
- County Durham
- Duration
- 111
- FilmAffinity ID
- 452568
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.billyelliot.com
- Image
- Billy Elliot.png
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- publication date
- 2000-11-30
- title
- Billy Elliot
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Actor
- distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- derivative work
- Billy Elliot the Musical
- set in period
- 1984–85 UK miners' strike
- review score
- 74/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall. Set in County Durham in North East England during the 1984–1985 miners' strike, the film is about a working-class boy who has a passion for ballet. His father objects, based on negative stereotypes of male ballet dancers. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, Gary Lewis as his father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher.
Adapted from a play called Dancer by Lee Hall, development on the film began in 1999. Around 2,000 boys were considered for the role of Billy before Bell was chosen. Filming began in the North East of England in August 1999. Greg Brenman and Jon Finn served as producers, while Stephen Warbeck composed the film's score. Billy Elliot is a co-production among BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films.
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