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Northern England | England
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Best Screenplay Meilleur Scnario Long Mtrage | 2003 | Juliette
Best Comedy Film | 2003
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2004 | Helen
European Actress | 2003 | Helen
British Actress of the Year | 2004 | Helen
British Supporting Actor of the Year | 2004 | John
Best Female Voice | 2004 | Ada Maria Serra
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2004 | Helen
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Comedy or Musical | 2004 | Julie
Best Screenplay | 2003 | Tim
2003 | Nigel
Best Actress | 2004 | Helen
Budget 10,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 96,542,059 USD
The real-life Women's Institute members (Angela Baker, Beryl Bamforth, Christine Clancy, Ros Fawcett, Lynda Logan and Tricia Stewart) on which this movie was based all appear as members of Highgyll W.I. in the scene in the marquee at Knapely Show where Rylstone and Highgyll are competing for cookery prizes.
During the making of this movie, Dame Helen Mirren's brother was dying of cancer. She was given the news he had died on the day they came to film the funeral scenes. Her tears and grief are real.
Contrary to the depiction in this movie, the proposal for the calendar enjoyed broad support in the Women's Institute organization.
The original "calendar girls" were members of the Rylstone Women's Institute, but much of this movie was shot in and around the village of Kettlewell in North Yorkshire, around ten miles away. Additional locations in England include Buckden, Burnsall, Coniston, Ilkley, Settle, Linton, Malham, Skipton, Westminster, and Ealing in London.
This was Graham Crowden's final movie before his death on October 19, 2010 at the age of eighty-seven.
"Chris: A while ago I asked John Clarke to give us a talk here at Knapely WI. Annie asked me to read it to you here tonight, and this is what he wrote: "The flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire. Every stage of their growth has its own beauty, but the last phase is always the most glorious. Then very quickly they all go to seed." [laughter] Chris: "Which makes it ironic my favourite flower isn't even indigenous to the British Isles, let alone Yorkshire. I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.""
"[seeking approval for the calendar at the National WI Conference] Chris: I'm about to commit heresy. Look, I hate plum jam. [laughter] Chris: I only joined the WI to make my mother happy. I do, I hate plum jam. I'm crap at cakes, I can't make sponge. In fact, seeing as it's unlikely that George Clooney would actually come to Skipton to do a talk on what it was like to be in "ER", there seems very little reason for me to actually stay in the WI. Except suddenly... suddenly I want to raise money in memory of a man I loved, and to do that I'm prepared to take me clothes off for a WI calendar, and if you can't give us ten minutes of your time, Madam Chairman, well then, frankly, guys, I'm going to do it without council approval. Because there are some things that are more important than council approval. And if it means that we get closer to killing off this shitty, cheating, sly, conniving bloody disease that cancer is, oh God, I tell you, I'd run round Skipton market naked, smeared in plum jam, wearing nothing but a knitted tea cosy on me head and singing "Jerusalem". [laughter]"
