Cinema of the United Kingdom |
---|
List of British films |
British horror |
1888–1919 |
1920s |
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
1930s |
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 |
1940s |
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 |
1950s |
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 |
1960s |
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 |
1970s |
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 |
1980s |
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 |
1990s |
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |
2000s |
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |
2010s |
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 |
2020s |
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 |
By Country |
This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have had their premieres in 2018 and were at least partly produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom. It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films and interactive films like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch . It also does not include films screened in previous years that had official release dates in 2018.
British co-productions like Bohemian Rhapsody , Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald , and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again garnered positive reviews and collectively grossed more than $1.5 billion in the Box Office worldwide. [1] Small independent films like The Wife , Three Identical Strangers and At Eternity's Gate performed well in the Specialty Box Office, screening in a limited number of theaters. [2] [3]
2018 was expected to be the best year for British box office since 1971 with Avengers: Infinity War , Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , Incredibles 2 , Black Panther , Bohemian Rhapsody , Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom , Peter Rabbit and The Greatest Showman breaking £40 million at the British box office. [4] [5]
Also included is an overview of five awards ceremonies which are major events in British film: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Title | Director(s) | Release Date | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Adrift in Soho | Pablo Behrens | 14 November 2018 | [126] |
Amá | Lorna Tucker | 1 June 2018 | [127] |
Aquarela | Viktor Kossakovsky | 1 September 2018 (Venice Film Festival) | [128] |
Astral | Chris Mul | 13 October 2018 (San Diego International Film Festival) | [129] |
Await Further Instructions | Johnny Kevorkian | 22 June 2018 (Cinepocalypse) | [130] |
Becoming Animal | Emma Davie, Peter Mettler | 20 March 2018 (CPH:DOX) | [131] |
Back to Berlin | Catherine Lurie | 5 May 2018 (Washington Jewish Film Festival) | [132] |
The Ballymurphy Precedent | Callum Macrae | 11 June 2018 (Sheffield Doc/Fest) | [133] |
Bare Knuckle | Duncan Napier-Bell | 4 June 2018 | [134] |
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story | Steve Sullivan | 13 March 2018 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [135] |
Black Flowers | Martin Gooch | 7 October 2018 (Sitges Film Festival) | [136] |
Black Site | Tom Paton | 27 August 2018 (Frightfest) | [137] |
Breaking Habits | Robert Ryan | 15 October 2018 (Warsaw Film Festival) | [138] |
Bride of Scarecrow | Louisa Warren | 3 October 2018 | [139] |
Cleft Lip | Erik Knudsen | 13 July 2018 | [140] |
Curse of the Scarecrow | Louisa Warren | 22 October 2018 | [141] |
Dagenham | Jo Morris | 13 October 2018 (LA Femme Film Festival) | [142] |
A Dark Place (a.k.a. Steel Country) | Simon Fellows | 24 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [143] |
A Deal with the Universe | Jason Barker | 26 March 2018 (BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival) | [144] |
Degas: Passion for Perfection | David Bickerstaff | 6 November 2018 | [145] |
The Devil's Doorway | Aislinn Clarke | 25 May 2018 (Seattle International Film Festival) | [146] |
Dirty Work | Louisa Warren | 3 February 2018 | [147] |
Doozy | Richard Squires | 13 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [148] |
The Eyes of Orson Welles | Mark Cousins | 9 May 2018 (Cannes Film Festival) | [149] |
Featherweight | Simon Stolland, Olivia Warren | 1 May 2018 | [150] |
Female Human Animal | Josh Appignanesi | 19 April 2018 (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) | [151] |
A Fistful of Lead | Marc Price | December 2018 | [152] |
Five Men and Caravaggio | Xiaolu Guo | 21 May 2018 (Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival) | [153] |
The Gandhi Murder | Karim Traïdia, Pankaj Sehgal | 28 June 2018 | [154] |
H is for Harry | Edward Owles, Jaime Taylor | 6 September 2018 (Open City Documentary Festival) | [155] |
I Love My Mum | Alberto Sciamma | 27 October 2018 (Cambridge Film Festival) | [156] |
The Ice King | James Erskine | 23 February 2018 | [157] |
The Image You Missed | Donal Foreman | 28 January 2018 (International Film Festival Rotterdam) | [158] |
Into the Mirror | Lois Stevenson | 25 August 2018 (New Renaissance Film Festival) | [159] |
Irene's Ghost | Iain Cunningham | 13 October 2018 (BFI London Film Festival) | [160] |
Island of the Hungry Ghosts | Gabrielle Brady | 19 April 2018 (Visions du Reel Film Festival) | [161] |
The Isle | Matthew Butler-Hart | 3 March 2018 (Manchester Film Festival) | [162] |
Jellyfish | James Gardner | 20 April 2018 (Tribeca Film Festival) | [163] |
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football | Louis Myles | 21 April 2018 | [164] |
King of Crime | Matt Gambell | 2 November 2018 | [165] |
Last Breath | Richard da Costa, Alex Parkinson | 1 December 2018 | [166] |
Last Summer | Jon Jones | 29 September 2018 (Vancouver International Film Festival) | [167] |
Looking for Lennon | Roger Appleton | 4 May 2018 | [168] |
Lucid | Adam Morse | 23 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [169] |
Mad World (a.k.a. Dystopia) | Paul Tanter | 2 January 2018 (DVD premiere) | [170] |
Magic Medicine | Monty Wates | 1 July 2018 | [171] |
Make Me Up | Rachel Maclean | 12 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [172] |
Make Us Dream | Sam Blair | 15 November 2018 | [173] |
Mari | Georgia Parris | 18 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [174] |
Matriarchy | Scott Vickers | 2 November 2018 | [175] |
McKellen: Play the Part | Joe Stephenson | 1 June 2018 | [176] |
Message Man | Corey Pearson | 8 March 2018 (limited) | [177] |
The More You Ignore Me | Keith English | 6 July 2018 | [178] |
No Ifs or Buts | Sarah Lewis | 20 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [179] |
No Shade | Clare Anyiam-Osigwe | 5 June 2018 | [180] |
A Northern Soul | Sean McAllister | 7 June 2018 (Sheffield Doc/Fest) | [181] |
Nureyev: An Orgy of One (a.k.a. Nureyev) | David Morris, Jacqui Morris | 25 September 2018 | [182] |
Obey | Jamie Jones | 22 April 2018 (Tribeca Film Festival) | [183] |
Of Fish and Foe | Andy Heathcote | 28 April 2018 (Hot Docs Toronto) | [184] |
Old Boys | Toby Macdonald | 21 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [185] |
One Man's Madness | Jeff Baynes | 22 May 2018 | [186] |
Payne & Redemption | Fergle Gibson | 4 October 2018 | [187] |
Peripheral | Paul Hyett | 31 October 2018 (Trieste Science+Fiction Festival) | [188] |
Pistorius | Vaughan Sivell | 6 September 2018 | [189] |
That Plan Came from the Bottom Up | Steve Sprung | 14 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [190] |
The Ponds | Patrick McLennan, Samuel Smith | 22 June 2018 | [191] |
Princess Emmy | Piet De Rycker | 8 November 2018 | [192] |
The Redeeming | Brian Barnes | 28 January 2018 (Horror-on-Sea Film Festival) | [193] |
Robin Hood: The Rebellion | Nicholas Winter | 5 November 2018 | [194] |
Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records | Nicolas Jack Davies | 16 November 2018 (Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival) | [195] |
Scheme Birds | Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin | 1 December 2018 (Sweden) | [196] |
The School in the Cloud | Jerry Rothwell, Ranu Ghosh | 20 March 2018 (CPH: Dox) | [197] |
Scotch: The Golden Dram | Andrew Peat | 14 April 2018 (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) | [198] |
Shut Up and Play the Piano | Philipp Jedicke | 18 February 2018 (Berlin International Film Festival) | [199] |
Sink | Mark Gillis | 5 October 2018 (premiere) | [200] |
Solis | Carl Strathie | 27 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [201] |
The Sonata | Andrew Desmond | 15 November 2018 | [202] |
Songwriter | Murray Cummings | 23 February 2018 (Berlin International Film Festival) | [203] |
Spitfire | David Fairhead, Ant Palmer | 15 July 2018 | [204] |
Stanley a Man of Variety | Stephen Cookson | 15 June 2018 | [205] |
Super November | Douglas King | 3 March 2018 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [206] |
Surrender: the Art of Jan Fabre | Phil Griffin | 16 March 2018 (Cinedans Festival) | [207] |
Tango One | Sacha Bennett | 19 March 2018 (UK) | [208] |
Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me | Olivia Lichtenstein | 26 October 2018 | [209] |
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie | David Stoten | 7 July 2018 (London) (premiere) | [210] |
Together | Paul Duddridge | 12 January 2018 | [211] |
Tracks | Jamie Patterson | 4 October 2018 (Raindance Film Festival) | [212] |
Train Set | Rob Burrows | 13 April 2018 | [213] |
Transition | Rob Burrows | 15 February 2018 (International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema London) | [214] |
Tucked | Jamie Patterson | 21 July 2018 (Outfest Film Festival) | [215] |
Two for Joy | Tom Beard | 23 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [216] |
Undercliffe | Lisa Mulcahy | 29 October 2018 (Austin Film Festival) | [217] |
Under The Wire | Christopher Martin | 7 September 2018 | [218] |
Unsettling | Iris Zaki | 21 March 2018 (CPH:DOX) | [219] |
The Viking War (a.k.a. Berserker: Death Fields) (Berserkers: Game Wars) | Louisa Warren | 5 February 2019 (DVD premiere) | [220] |
Voyageuse | May Miles Thomas | 1 March 2018 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [221] |
VS | Ed Lilly | 19 October 2018 | [222] |
We The Kings | Lauren Mackenzie | 28 September 2018 (Raindance Film Festival) | [223] |
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist | Lorna Tucker | 20 January 2018 (Sundance Film Festival) | [224] |
Wild Honey Pie | Jamie Adams | 12 March 2018 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [225] |
Winterlong | David Jackson | 30 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [226] |
Witch | Trevor Hayward | 1 January 2018 | [227] |
Women Making Films: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Mark Cousins | 1 September 2018 (Venice Film Festival) | [228] |
Written by Mrs Bach: Broken Silence | Alex McCall | 8 October 2018 | [229] |
The Yukon Assignment | Chris Lucas | 1 October 2018 | [230] |
Yuli | Icíar Bollaín | 23 September 2018 (Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival) | [231] |
The following list comprises films not produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom but is strongly associated with British culture. The films in this list should fulfill at least 3 of the following criteria:
Listed here are the British winners and nominees at the four most prestigious film award ceremonies in the English-speaking world: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, that were held during 2018, celebrating the best films of 2017. The British nominations were led by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , Dunkirk , and Darkest Hour , with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri winning awards in the major categories and Dunkirk going on to win large numbers of technical awards, whilst Gary Oldman won multiple best leading actor awards for his portrayal of Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour . British films did, however, notably lose out to The Shape of Water from USA.
The 90th Academy Awards honoring the best films of 2017 were held on March 4, 2018. [233]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 71st British Academy Film Awards honoring the best films of 2017 were held on 18 February 2018. [234]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 23rd Critics' Choice Awards was presented on January 11, 2018. [235]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 75th Golden Globe Awards was presented on January 7, 2018. [236]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards was presented on January 21, 2018. [237]
British winners:
British nominees:
Frances Louise McDormand is an American actress and producer. In a career spanning over four decades, she has gained acclaim for her roles in small-budget independent films. McDormand has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". Additionally, she has received three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. McDormand's worldwide box office gross exceeds $2.2 billion.
The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Castin a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film. It is the final award presented during the ceremony.
Douglas Urbanski is an American film producer and occasional film actor. He is a twice Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe Nominated and BAFTA-winning motion picture producer.
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) is a group of film critics based in Washington, D.C., and founded in 2002. WAFCA is composed of over 65 D.C.-based film critics from internet, print, radio, and television. Annually, the group gives awards to the best in film as selected by its members by vote.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 crime drama film written, directed, and produced by Martin McDonagh. It stars Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes, a Missouri woman who rents three roadside billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder. Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, and Peter Dinklage appear in supporting roles. The film was theatrically released in the United States in November 2017 and in the United Kingdom in January 2018 by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and it grossed $162 million at the worldwide box office.
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, 2018, rather than its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2018 Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, which was televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second consecutive year.
The 71st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2017. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2017. Following revelations of sexual harassment in the film industry, many attendees wore black or a badge to show their support for the Time's Up movement.
The 43rd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2017.
The 16th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 8, 2017.
The 22nd San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 11, 2017.
The nominations for the 18th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2017, were announced on December 15, 2017. Lady Bird led with five nominations, followed by Phantom Thread with four.
The 38th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2017, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 28 January 2018 at The May Fair Hotel, in Mayfair, London. The nominations were announced on 19 December 2017. Actor-filmmakers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram returned to host the ceremony for the third consecutive year.
{{cite web}}
: Check |url=
value (help){{cite web}}
: Check |url=
value (help)