Screenings
Synopsis
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realization that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
For Your Consideration
Best Picture
- Iain Canning, p.g.a.
- Emile Sherman, p.g.a.
- Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, p.g.a.
- Iain Canning, p.g.a. | Emile Sherman, p.g.a. | Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, p.g.a.
Best Director
- Francis Lee
Best Original Screenplay
- Francis Lee
Best Actress
- Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actress
- Saoirse Ronan
- Fiona Shaw
- Gemma Jones
Best Cinematography
- Stéphane Fontaine
Best Production Design
Production Designer
- Sarah Finlay
Set Decorator
- Sophie Hervieu
Best Costume Design
- Michael O’Connor
Best Film Editing
- Chris Wyatt
Best Original Score
- Dustin O’Halloran
- Volker Bertelmann
Best Sound
Sound Designer & Re-recording Mixer
- Johnnie Burn
Production Sound Mixer
- Phil Cape
Sound Editor
- Brendan Feeney
Best Make-Up & Hairstyling
Hair and Make-Up Designer
- Ivana Primorac
Key Hair and Make-Up Artist
- Charlotte Rogers
Starring
- Kate Winslet
- Saoirse Ronan
- Gemma Jones
- James McArdle
- Alec Secareanu
- and Fiona Shaw
- Kate Winslet | Saoirse Ronan | Gemma Jones
James McArdle | Alec Secareanu | and Fiona Shaw