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
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.
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
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.
