Director Lone Scherfig
Producers Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Production companies Wildgaze Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, BBC Films, Endgame Entertainment
US distribution Sony Pictures Classics
International distribution Odyssey Entertainment
US release date October 16
Worldwide gross $11.7m to December 13
Best picture chances
If the focus at this stage is on the performances of Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard for awards attention, Lone Scherfig’s An Education is quietly building momentum as a best-picture contender for capturing its social period so acutely and weaving such a compelling patchwork of characters, as played by a strong ensemble cast.
What Screen said
“This lively period drama could well find a berth in the US arthouse circuit, which craves period English pictures. Scherfig gives 1960s London that mix of wariness and opportunity that was felt when Britain finally emerged from the shadow of the Second World War… Besides the period setting, there is something old-fashioned, even Victorian, in this tale.”
David D’Arcy
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