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This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2020 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. It also does not include films screened in previous years that had official release dates in 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many British films were delayed from release and premiere including No Time to Die , Stardust , Blithe Spirit , A Boy Called Christmas and Everybody's Talking About Jamie .
Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details | Ref. | |
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A P R I L | 3 | Four Kids and It | Director: Andy De Emmony Cast: Paula Patton, Matthew Goode, Billy Jenkins, Ashley Aufderheide, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Ellie-Mae Siame, Russell Brand, Michael Caine | Altitude Based on Four Children and It by Jacqueline Wilson | [24] |
10 | Love Wedding Repeat | Director: Dean Craig Cast: Olivia Munn, Sam Claflin, Freida Pinto, Eleanor Tomlinson | Netflix Remake of Plan de table (Co-produced by the United States) | [25] | |
M A Y | 22 | The Trip to Greece | Director: Michael Winterbottom Cast: Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan | Based on The Trip and sequel to The Trip to Spain | [26] |
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Title | Director | Release Date | Ref. |
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After Love | Aleem Khan | 11 September 2020 (Toronto International Film Festival) | [50] |
Amber and Me | Ian Davies | 21 March 2020 | [51] |
Be Water | Bao Nguyen | 25 January 2020 (Sundance Film Festival) | |
Body of Water | Lucy Brydon | 27 February 2020 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [52] |
Boys from County Hell | Chris Baugh | April 2020 (Tribeca Film Festival) | [53] |
Burning Man: Art on Fire | Gerald Fox | 15 August 2020 | [54] |
Climbing Blind | Alastair Lee | 20 March 2020 | [55] |
Coded Bias | Shalini Kantayya | 30 January 2020 (Sundance Film Festival) | [56] |
DAU. Degeneration | Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Jekaterina Oertel | 28 February 2020 (Berlin International Film Festival) | [57] |
Edge of Extinction | Andrew Gilbert | 18 May 2020 | [58] |
Enemy Lines | Anders Banke | 23 April 2020 | [59] |
Get Luke Lowe | Drew V Marjke | 22 August 2020 (American Black Film Festival) | |
How to Stop a Recurring Dream | Ed Morris | 27 August 2020 (Loudoun Arts Film Festival) | [60] |
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation | Ross Boyask | 19 June 2020 | [61] |
Love Sarah | Eliza Schroeder | 29 February 2020 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [62] |
One Man and His Shoes | Yemi Bamiro | [63] | |
The Reason I Jump | Jerry Rothwell | 25 January 2020 (Sundance Film Festival) | [64] |
Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm | Hannah Berryman | 16 March 2020 (South by Southwest) | [65] |
Sulphur and White | Julian Jarrold | 27 February 2020 (London Royal Gala) | [66] |
To Nowhere | Sian Astor-Lewis | 7 December 7 2020 (Paris Independent Film Festival) | |
The Uncertain Kingdom | Jason Bradbury, Stroma Cairns, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hope Dickson Leach, Ellen Evans, Paul Frankl, Alison Hargreaves, Guy Jenkin, Sophie King, Iggy Ldn, Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Lanre Malaolu, Runyararo Mapfumo, Lab Ky Mo, Leon Oldstrong, Ray Panthaki, David Proud, Carol Salter, Jason Wingard | 3 April 2020 (limited) | [67] |
United Nation Three Decades of Drum & Bass | Terry Stone, Richard Turner | 21 February 2020 | [68] |
Villain | Philip Barantini | 28 February 2020 | [69] |
The Whalebone Box | Andrew Kötting | 3 April 2020 | [70] |
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 three of the following criteria:
Title | Country of origin | Adaptation | Story Setting | Film Locations | British Cast and Crew |
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Artemis Fowl | United States | England and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom | Kenneth Branagh (director), Nonso Anozie, Judi Dench, Patrick Doyle (composer), Martin Walsh (editor) | ||
Dolittle | United States | Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting | England | Anglesey, Berkshire, Cumbria, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, North Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, and Somerset in United Kingdom | Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Ineson, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Emma Thompson, Nick Moore (editor) |
The Witches | United States Mexico | The Witches by Roald Dahl | Hertfordshire and Surrey, United Kingdom | Codie-Lei Eastick, Simon Manyonda, Charles Edwards | |
Listed here are the British nominees at the five most prestigious film award ceremonies in the English-speaking world: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, that were held during 2020, celebrating the best films of 2019. The British nominations were led by 1917 along with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , which was co-produced by the United States. 1917 led in the technical categories with multiple wins in cinematography, sound, special effects, and production design. Notably, a number of British technicians were nominated for non-British films such as Le Mans '66 , Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker , and Ad Astra . Marriage Story and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , both British-American co-productions, unanimously won the Best Supporting Actress and Actor awards respectively. British films did, however, notably lose out to Parasite from South Korea.
The 92nd Academy Awards honoring the best films of 2019 were held on 9 February 2020.
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The 73rd British Academy Film Awards was presented on 2 February 2020. [71]
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The 25th Critics' Choice Awards was presented on 12 January 2020.
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The 77th Golden Globe Awards was presented on 5 January 2020. [72] [73]
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The 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards was presented on 19 January 2019. [74] [75]
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The National Film Awards UK are presented in an annual award show hosted by the National Film Academy (NFA). As of 2015, it has taken place in Central London at the Porchester Hall. The most recent 9th National Film Awards UK was held on 4 July 2023.
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Stephanie Allain and Lynette Howell Taylor and was directed by Glenn Weiss. Three months earlier in a ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood held on October 27, 2019, the Academy held its 11th Annual Governors Awards ceremony.
The 23rd Hollywood Film Awards were held on November 3, 2019. The ceremony took place at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and was hosted by Rob Riggle.
The 77th Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and American television of 2019, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Produced by Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA, the ceremony was broadcast live on January 5, 2020, from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. The ceremony aired live on NBC in the United States. Ricky Gervais hosted the ceremony for the fifth and "final" time.
The 91st National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2019, were announced on December 3, 2019.