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Brooklyn Classic Drama in British Movies 2015

  • Starcast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Bríd Brennan, Julie Walters, Fiona Glascott, Bronte Kavanagh
  • Director: John Crowley
  • Producer: Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
  • Music: Michael Brook
  • Release Date: 6 November 2015    Duration: 112 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Winner of Best British Film BAFTA Award is undoubtedly ranked first the list of British Movies 2015. This film was nominated under 3 categories at the Academy Awards.

45 Years

  • Starcast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley
  • Director: Andrew Haigh
  • Producer: Tristan Goligher
  • Release Date: 28 August 2015    Duration: 95 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Charlotte Rampling nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.

Cinderella

  • Starcast: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Stellan Skarsgård, Richard Madden, Hayley Atwell, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi, Sophie McShera, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Chaplin
  • Director: Kenneth Branagh
  • Producer: Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur, David Barron
  • Music: Patrick Doyle
  • Track: Life and Laughter, A Golden Childhood, You Shall Go, Pumpkins and Mice
  • Release Date: 13 March 2015    Duration: 106 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: This film collected $543.5 million at the box office and emerged as a successful commercial film in British Movies 2015 list.

Ex Machina

  • Starcast: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Sonoya Mizuno, Oscar Isaac, Elina Alminas, Tiffany Pisani
  • Director: Alex Garland
  • Producer: Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
  • Music: Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow
  • Track: Get Down Saturday Night, Bunsen Burner, Enola Gay, Husbands
  • Release Date: 21 January 2015    Duration: 108 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Best Visual Effects Academy award winner in the list of British Movies 2015.

The Lady in the Van

  • Starcast: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Frances de la Tour, Clare Hammond, Roger Allam,
    Claire Foy
  • Director: Nicholas Hytner
  • Producer: Nicholas Hytner, Damian Jones, Kevin Loader
  • Music: George Fenton
  • Release Date: 12 September 2015    Duration: 104 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Maggie Smith won the Best Actress award at the 43rd Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Steve Jobs Biopic in British Movies 2015

  • Starcast: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston, Sarah Snook
  • Director: Danny Boyle
  • Producer: Danny Boyle, Guymon Casady, Christian Colson, Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin
  • Music: Daniel Pemberton
  • Tracks: The Circus of Machines, It’s Not Working, The Skylab Plan, I Wrote Ticket to Ride
  • Release Date: 13 November 2015    Duration: 122 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Kate Winslet won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award and Aaron Sorkin won Best Adapted Screenplay award at the British Academy Film Awards.

Shaun the Sheep Movie Comedy British Movies 2015

  • Starcast: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour, Omid Djalili, Simon Greenall, Richard Webber,
    Tim Hands
  • Director: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
  • Producer: Paul Kewley, Julie Lockhart
  • Music: Ilan Eshkeri
  • Tracks: Shaun’s Plan, Feels Like Summer, Shaun’s Farm House Party, Humdrum Day, You’re Mine, Anarchy on the Farm, Gaol House Blues
  • Release Date: 6 February 2015    Duration: 85 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: The film nominated for the Best Animated Feature at the 88th Academy Awards.

The Lobster

  • Starcast: Colin Farrell, Jessica Barden, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Ariane Labed, Ashley Jensen, Angeliki Papoulia, Léa Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Michael Smiley, Ben Whishaw
  • Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Producer: Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday
  • Music: Johnnie Burn
  • Release Date: 16 October 2015    Duration: 118 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Winner of 3 Cannes Film Festival awards in the list of British Movies 2015.

The Danish Girl

  • Starcast: Eddie Redmayne, Ben Whishaw, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Sebastian Koch, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pip Torrens, Emerald Fennell
  • Director: Tom Hooper
  • Producer: Tim Bevan, Anne Harrison, Eric Fellner, Gail Mutrux, Tom Hooper
  • Music: Alexandre Desplat
  • Release Date: 5 September 2015    Duration: 119 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Alicia Vikander won the Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards.

Amy

  • Starcast: Amy Winehouse, Janis Winehouse, Blake Fielder-Civil, Mitchell Winehouse, Raye Cosbert, Nick Schymansky, Juliette Ashby, Tyler James, Mark Ronson, Lauren Gilbert, Tony Bennett, Salaam Remi
  • Director: Asif Kapadia
  • Producer: James Gay-Rees, Paul Bell, George Pank
  • Music: Antônio Pinto, Amy Winehouse
  • Track: Stronger Than Me, What Is It About Men, Holiday Texts, Opening, Tears Dry on Their Own, Some Unholy War
  • Release Date: 16 May 2015    Duration: 128 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: The film won the Best Documentary Feature award at the Academy Awards.

The Martian

  • Starcast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Aksel Hennie, Michael Peña, Sebastian Stan, Sean Bean, Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Director: Ridley Scott
  • Producer: Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Aditya Sood, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam
  • Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Release Date: 11 June 2015    Duration: 141 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: This film received 7 nominations at the Academy Awards.

Spectre

  • Starcast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista, Naomie Harris, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes, Andrew Scott
  • Director: Sam Mendes
  • Producer: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
  • Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Track: A Place Without Mercy, The Eternal City, Los Muertos Vivos Estan, The Pale King, Vauxhall Bridge, Backfire, Kite in a Hurricane
  • Release Date: 26 October 2015    Duration: 148 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: It was the highest grossing film in the United Kingdom. The movie won the Best Original Song award at the Academy and Golden Globe awards.

Macbeth

  • Starcast: Michael Fassbender, Paddy Considine, Marion Cotillard, Jack Reynor, Sean Harris, David Thewlis, Elizabeth Debicki, Maurice Roëves
  • Director: Justin Kurzel
  • Producer: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Laura Hastings-Smith
  • Music: Jed Kurzel
  • Release Date: 30 September 2015    Duration: 113 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: This film received the nomination for “Palme d’Or” award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Slow West

  • Starcast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, Rory McCann, Madeleine Sami, Brooke Williams, Andrew Robertt, Brian Sergent
  • Director: John Maclean
  • Producer: Michael Fassbender, Iain Canning, Rachel Gardner, Emile Sherman, Conor McCaughan
  • Music: Jed Kurzel
  • Release Date: 26 June 2015    Duration: 84 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: This film won the Jury prize at the Sundance Institute’s World Cinema.

Far from the Madding Crowd

  • Starcast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge, Michael Sheen, Tilly Vosburgh, Juno Temple, Rowan Hedley, Connor Webb, Chris Gallarus
  • Director: Thomas Vinterberg
  • Producer: Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
  • Music: Craig Armstrong
  • Track: Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
  • Release Date: 1 May 2015    Duration: 119 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: The film collected $30.2 million against a budget of £12 million.

Suffragette

  • Starcast: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep, Ben Whishaw, Natalie Press, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Romola Garai, Samuel West
  • Director: Sarah Gavron
  • Producer: Alison Owen, Faye Ward
  • Music: Alexandre Desplat
  • Release Date: 12 October 2015    Duration: 106 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Actor Brendan Gleeson won the Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Awards.

Carol

  • Starcast: Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Rooney Mara, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler, Cory Michael Smith,
    John Magaro, Carrie Brownstein
  • Director: Todd Haynes
  • Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon
  • Music: Carter Burwell
  • Track: One Mint Julep, Easy Living, Kiss of Fire, You Belong to Me, No Other Love
  • Release Date: 27 November 2015    Duration: 118 minutes
  • Verdict & Awards: Actress Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards respectively at the AACTA Awards.

The Legend of Barney Thomson

  • Starcast: Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen, Kevin Guthrie, Sam Robertson,
    Stephen McCole, Eileen McCallum, Brian Pettifer
  • Director: Robert Carlyle
  • Producer: Kaleena Kiff, John G. Lenic, Holly Brydson, Brian Coffey, Richard Cowan
  • Release Date: 24 July 2015    Duration: 94 minutes

Absolutely Anything

  • Starcast: Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Rob Riggle, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Joanna Lumley, Eddie Izzard, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Robin Williams, Terry Jones
  • Director: Terry Jones
  • Producer: Bill Jones, Ben Timlett
  • Music: George Fenton
  • Track: Absolutely Anything and Anything At All
  • Release Date: 14 August 2015    Duration: 84 minutes

London Road

  • Starcast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson, Kate Fleetwood, Claire Moore, Janet Henfrey, Clare Burt, Paul Thornley, Jenny Galloway
  • Director: Rufus Norris
  • Producer: Dixie Linder
  • Music: Adam Cork
  • Release Date: 12 June 2015    Duration: 91 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: Tom Hardy won the British Actor of the Year award at the London Film Critics Circle Awards 2015.

Mr. Holmes

  • Starcast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Colin Starkey, Milo Parker, Hattie Morahan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Phil Davis, Patrick Kennedy, Roger Allam, Frances de la Tour
  • Director: Bill Condon
  • Producer: Iain Canning, Anne Carey, Emile Sherman
  • Music: Carter Burwell
  • Release Date: 19 June 2015    Duration: 104 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: Milo Parker received the nomination at the British Independent Film Awards under Most Promising Newcomer category.

Fifty Shades of Grey

  • Starcast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford, Jennifer Ehle, Luke Grimes, Marcia Gay Harden, Rita Ora, Victor Rasuk, Andrew Airlie, Callum Keith Rennie
  • Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Producer: E.L.James, Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti
  • Music: Danny Elfman
  • Track: I Put a Spell on You, Meet Me in the Middle, Love Me Like You Do, Earned It, Beast of Burden,
    Crazy in Love, Did That Hurt?, One Last Night, Where You Belong
  • Release Date: 9 February 2015    Duration: 128 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: The film received the nomination at the Academy Awards under Best Original Song category.

Spooks: The Greater Good

  • Starcast: Peter Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Kit Harington, Lara Pulver, Elyes Gabel, Tim McInnerny, David Harewood, Elliot Levey, Tuppence Middleton, Hugh Simon, Michael Wildman, Eleanor Matsuura, Geoffrey Streatfeild
  • Director: Bharat Nalluri
  • Producer: Jane Featherstone
  • Music: Dominic Lewis
  • Release Date: 8 May 2015    Duration: 104 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: The film is also known as MI-5 in many countries.

We Are Your Friends

  • Starcast: Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Emily Ratajkowski, Jonny Weston, Alex Shaffer, Wes Bentley, Joey Rudman, Brittany Furlan, Jon Bernthal, Jon Abrahams, Vanessa Lengies, Alicia Coppola
  • Director: Max Joseph
  • Producer: Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin
  • Release Date: 11 August 2015    Duration: 96 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: According to Box Office Mojo reports this film was the 4th worst debutant at the box office. So this is the worst film on our list of British Movies 2015.

Room Brie Larson’s Best Performance in British Movies 2015

  • Starcast: Jacob Tremblay, Brie Larson, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Tom McCamus, Amanda Brugel, Sean Bridgers, Cas Anvar, Joe Pingue, Wendy Crewson
  • Director: Lenny Abrahamson
  • Producer: Ed Guiney, David Gross
  • Music: Stephen Rennicks
  • Release Date: 4 September 2015    Duration: 118 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: The film received 4 nominations at the Academy awards and one nomination at the AACTA Awards which include Best Actress nomination.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

  • Starcast: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson, Michael Caine,
    Sofia Boutella, Samantha Womack, Geoff Bell
  • Director: Matthew Vaughn
  • Producer: Matthew Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid
  • Music: Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson
  • Track: Manners Maketh Man, To Become a Kingsman, The Medallion, Drinks with Valentine, Shame We Had to Grow Up
  • Release Date: 29 January 2015    Duration: 129 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: Winner of Empire Award for Best British Film in the list of British Movies 2015.

Jupiter Ascending

  • Starcast: Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, Edward Hogg, Maria Doyle Kennedy Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Vanessa Kirby
  • Director: The Wachowskis
  • Producer: Grant Hill, The Wachowskis
  • Music: Michael Giacchino
  • Release Date: 27 January 2015    Duration: 127 minutes
  • Award & Verdict: The film collected the amount of £183,900,000 on the box office and emerged as a sixth highest grosser of the year 2015.
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