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Billy Elliot

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431. Most popular
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Drama / Comedy / Music
UK / France, 2000, 110 min (Alternative: 106 min)

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Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in northeast England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother's piano out of loneliness. One day Billy notices a ballet class nearby. Intrigued, he begins practicing and taking lessons from Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters), a tough-minded teacher. Billy begins to fall in love with ballet but keeps his lessons a secret from his family, who struggle to put food on the table while the strike drags on. When his father finally learns the truth, a family crisis erupts, and Billy struggles to prove that dancing is more than just a hobby--it's his dream. (official distributor synopsis)

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Awards

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  • Nominations

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

  • 2001 - Jamie Bell (Best Leading Actor)
  • 2001 - Julie Walters (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2001 - Outstanding British Film
  • 2001 - Best Film
  • 2001 - Stephen Daldry (Best Director)
  • 2001 - Gary Lewis (Best Supporting Actor)
  • 2001 - Lee Hall (Best Original Screenplay)
  • 2001 - Brian Tufano (Best Cinematography)
  • 2001 - Best Editing
  • 2001 - Stephen Warbeck (Best Music)
  • 2001 - Best Sound
  • 2001 - Stephen Daldry (Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer in British Film)
  • 2001 - Lee Hall (Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer in British Film)