Girl with a Pearl Earring

Name: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Released: 2003
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 72.17848970251717
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy

Girl with a Pearl Earring

72%

Drama / Romance / Biography

UK / Luxembourg, 2003, 95 min

Directed by:

Peter Webber

Based on:

Tracy Chevalier (book)

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Plots(1)

Seventeen-year-old Griet must work to support her family and becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she gradually attracts the master painter's attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their inspiration of each other from his vo latile wife Catharina. The wealthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven senses the intimacy between the artist and his maid and cont rives a commission for Vermeer to paint Griet alone. The result will be one of the greatest paintings ever created, but at what cost? (official distributor synopsis)

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Awards

Winner
Nominations

Academy Awards

2004 - Eduardo Serra (Best Achievement in Cinematography)
2004 - Best Achievement in Production Design
2004 - Best Achievement in Costume Design

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

2004 - Scarlett Johansson (Best Leading Actress)
2004 - Judy Parfitt (Best Supporting Actress)
2004 - Olivia Hetreed (Best Adapted Screenplay)
2004 - Eduardo Serra (Best Cinematography)
2004 - Alexandre Desplat (Best Music)
2004 - Best Costume Design
2004 - Best Make Up/Hair
2004 - Best Production Design
2004 - Outstanding British Film
2004 - Peter Webber (Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film)