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Seaside Town | England
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Best Production Design International Studio Feature Film Period | 2023
Best Cinematography International Competition | 2024 | Roger
Best Achievement in Cinematography | 2023 | Roger
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 2023 | Olivia
Outstanding British Film of the Year | 2023 | Pippa
Best Supporting Actor | 2023
Best Cinematography | 2023 | Roger
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Feature Film | 2023 | Roger
Best Film International Competition | 2024 | Sam
Best Actress International Competition | 2024 | Olivia
Best Actor International Competition | 2024
Best Director International Competition | 2024 | Sam
BritishIrish Actress of the Year For and | 2023
BritishIrish Actress of the Year | 2023 | Olivia
Best Original Score | 2023 | Trent
Best Music Supervision for a Trailer Film | 2023
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Feature DialogueADR | 2023 | Rachael
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Feature Motion Picture DialogueADR | 2023 | Rachael
2023 | Sam
Best Cinematography | 2023 | Roger
The Planet Positive Award | 2023
Best Grownup Love Story | 2023
Best Cinematography | 2023 | Roger
Best Lead Performance | 2023 | Olivia
Best Cinematography | 2022 | Roger
Best Screen Couple | 2022 | Olivia
Best Cinematography | 2022 | Roger
Best Original Score Feature Film | 2022 | Trent
Main Competition | 2022 | Sam
Budget 13,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 11,400,000 USD
Although this is Sam Mendes' ninth film as a director, "Empire of Light" marks the first time he directed from a screenplay he had written entirely himself. All of his other films, including a co-writing credit for the film "1917 (2019)," were directed from scripts by other screenwriters.
The actual Dreamland cinema in Margate (which stood in for the Empire cinema in this film) was opened in 1923. It changed hands several times during its lifetime and finally closed for good in 2007. It still stands, although empty, because it is a listed building and so cannot be demolished without parliamentary approval. The block of flats where Steven lives with his mother is not an optical effect: it is really is that close to the building (with Margate railway station being just 100 yards up the road).
The film is bookended with poems. Near the start of the film. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is used, a poem which claims that spring proves that humans are profoundly dead. At the end of the film, a poem by Philip Larkin claims that May leaf growth shows the previous year's gross is dead but this year brings a fresh start.
The film makes reference to the terms 'rude boy' and '2 tone', terms from a period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The terms refer to some young musicians (both black and white) who were born and raised in the UK and who started to adopt the dress sense and musical influence of ska-based Jamaican dance hall music but with a British spin on it. The movement is thought to have originated in the city of Coventry; it's most famous proponents included bands like The Selecter, The Beat, The Specials and Bad Manners. The most internationally successful of these bands was 'Madness', whose earlier hits were considered to be heavily influenced by the 2 tone movement.
Sam Mendes' first solo screenplay and his second screenplay overall after the film "1917 (2019)."
"Hilary: All these people. I'm the only one who knows the truth. Do you understand me? I'm the only one!"
"Norman: ...there's a little flaw in our optic nerve so if I run the film at 24 frames per second, you don't see the darkness... viewing static images rapidly in succession creates an illusion of motion, illusion of life.."
