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Atonement (film)

Atonement
Atonement UK poster.jpg
UK release poster
Directed by Joe Wright
Produced by Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Paul Webster
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
Based on Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Starring James McAvoy
Keira Knightley
Saoirse Ronan
Romola Garai
Vanessa Redgrave
Music by Dario Marianelli
Cinematography Seamus McGarvey
Edited by Paul Tothill
Production
company
Distributed by Focus Features
Universal Pictures
Release date
  • 29 August 2007 (2007-08-29) (VIFF)
  • 7 September 2007 (2007-09-07) (United Kingdom)
Running time
123 minutes
Country

United Kingdom

France
Language English
Budget $30 million
Box office $129.3 million

United Kingdom

Atonement is a 2007 British romantic drama war film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's 2001 novel of the same name. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave, chronicles a crime and its consequences over the course of six decades, beginning in the 1930s. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed in England. Distributed in most of the world by Universal Studios, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 September 2007 and in North America on 7 December 2007.

Atonement opened both the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival and the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at the age of 35, the youngest director ever to open the latter event. A commercial success, the film earned a worldwide gross of approximately $129 million against a budget of $30 million. Critics gave the drama positive reviews, praising its acting performances, its cinematography and Dario Marianelli's score.

Atonement won an Oscar for Best Original Score at the 80th Academy Awards, and was nominated for six others, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Ronan. It also garnered fourteen nominations at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, winning both Best Film and Production Design, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.


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