Number 9 Films

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Number 9 Films is a British independent film production company co-founded in 2002 by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, after a long collaboration at both Palace Pictures and Scala Productions. [1] [2] [3]

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Between them the principles' movies have garnered 57 BAFTA nominations and wins, and 23 Academy Award® nominations and wins. [4] [5]

Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen were jointly honoured with the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2019. [6] [7]

In 2019, Number 9 Films entered into a multi-year agreement with film studio and cinema chain Shochiku for distribution of its theatrical films in Japan. The studio would also contribute funding for film development. [8] [9]

In 2024, Beta Film took a stake in Number 9 TV, a new small screen subsidiary of the production company. [10]

Projects

Their latest feature LIVING , [11] scripted by Kazou Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy - a reworking of Kurosawa’s classic IKIRU - received numerous accolades including 3 BAFTA Award nominations [12] and 2 Academy Award® nominations. [13] The company also served as co-executive producers on ANOTHER END , [14] starring Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. [15] Upcoming projects include Fleur Fortuné's THEASSESSMENT, starring Alicia Vikander,  Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel; [16] award-winning theatre director Marianne Elliott's feature debut THE SALT PATH , starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs; [17] and Kei Ishikawa's A PALE VIEW OF HILLS, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of the same name. [18]

Karlsen and Woolley have produced some of the most celebrated independent films in the US and Europe including: [19] Todd Haynes’s CAROL , [20] starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (nominated for 6 Academy Awards®, [21] 6 Golden Globe Awards, [22] and 9 BAFTA Awards [23] ); Mark Herman’s LITTLE VOICE , starring Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine (winner of a Golden Globe Award, [24] nominated for 1 Academy Award®, [25] 6 Golden Globe Awards, and 6 BAFTA Awards); Neil Jordan’s THE CRYING GAME , starring Stephen Rea and Forest Whitaker (winner of an Academy Award®, [26] a BAFTA Award, and nominated for 6 Academy Awards®); MADE IN DAGENHAM , starring Sally Hawkins and Rosamund Pike (nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards); Phyllis Nagy’s MRS. HARRIS , starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley (nominated for 12 Emmy® Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards, [27] and a PGA Award); Wash Westmoreland’s COLETTE , starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West (nominated for 4 BIFAs and an Independent Spirit Award); and Paolo Sorrentino’s YOUTH , starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel (nominated for 1 Academy Award® [28] and winner of 3 European Film Awards). Karlsen’s credits also include LADIES IN LAVENDER, SIXTY SIX and NEON BIBLE . Woolley’s producing credits also include COMPANY OF WOLVES, MONA LISA , SCANDAL, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, BACKBEAT, MICHAEL COLLINS, THE BUTCHER BOY, STONED (which Woolley also directed) and INTERMISSION .

Filmography

YearTitleWorldwide box officeNotes
2004 Return to Sender
2005 Mrs. Harris Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards [29]
2005 Stoned $174,758 [30]
2005 Breakfast on Pluto $3.9 million [31] Nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy awards. [32]
2006 Sixty Six $1.9 million [33]
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? $2.7 million [34] Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards [35]
2008 Sounds Like Teen Spirit
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People $19.2 million [36] Production budget: $28 million.
2009 Perrier's Bounty $167,938 [37]
2010 Made in Dagenham $15.6 million [38] Production budget: £5 million.
Nominated for four British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards [39]
2012 Midnight's Children $1.6 million [40]
2012 Byzantium $92,544 [41] Production budget: €8 million.
2012 Great Expectations $920,099 [42]
2014 Hyena $89,526 [43]
2015 Carol $42.7 million [44] Production budget: $11.8 million.
Nominated for nine British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for six Academy Awards
Nominated for five Golden Globe Awards
2015 Youth $24 million [45] Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards
Nominated for one Academy Award
2016 The Limehouse Golem $2.3 million [46] Released in 2017.
2016 Their Finest $13.8 million [47]
2017 On Chesil Beach $3.4 million [48]
2018 Colette $16 million [49] Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for two Satellite Awards
2021 Mothering Sunday $2.1 million
2022 Living $12.1 millionNominated for nine British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for one Golden Globe Award
Nominated for three British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four Satellite Awards
Nominated for two Academy Awards

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