War Horse (2011)

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PG 13 PG-13 for intense sequences of war violence

Revel Guest & Frank Marshall - Executive Producers

Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy - Producers

Tracey Seaward & Adam Somner - Co-Producers

Lee Hall & Richard Curtis (screenplay)

Michael Morpurgo (novel)

John Williams

Janusz Kaminski

Michael Kahn

DreamWorks Pictures | Reliance Entertainment | Amblin Entertainment | The Kennedy/Marshall Company

United States

English | German (some dialogue)

Bourne Woods, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England, UK

Dartmoor, Devon, England, UK

Devon, England, UK

Longcross Studios, Chobham Lane, Longcross, Surrey, England, UK

Luton Hoo Estate, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK

Meavy, Devon, England, UK

Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK (studio)

Wisley Airfield, Wisley, Surrey, England, UK

American Film Institute Awards

2011 Won American Film Institute Award Film of the Year

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Art Direction Rick Carter (production designer); Lee Sandales (set decorator)

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Cinematography Janusz Kaminski

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Director Steven Spielberg

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Editing Michael Kahn

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Picture. Also for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), Moneyball (2011), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Artist (2011), Drive (2011), The Help (2011), The Descendants (2011), The Tree of Life (2011) and Hugo (2011)

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Score John Williams

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Sound

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

2012 Nominated Chicago Film Critics Association Award Best Cinematography Janusz Kaminski

Golden Globes, USA

2012 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama

2012 Nominated Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture John Williams

Houston Film Critics Society Awards

2012 Nominated Houston Film Critics Society Award Best Film

2012 Nominated Houston Film Critics Society Award Best Cinematography Janusz Kaminski

2012 Nominated Houston Film Critics Society Award Best Score John Williams

London Critics Circle Film Awards

2012 Nominated ALFS Award British Actor of the Year Peter Mullan. Also for Tyrannosaur (2011)

2012 Nominated ALFS Award Young British Performer of the Year Jeremy Irvine

National Board of Review Awards, USA

2011 Nominated National Board of Review Award Best Film

Satellite Awards

2011 Nominated Satellite Award Best Director Steven Spielberg

2011 Nominated Satellite Award Best Motion Picture

2011 Nominated Satellite Award Best Screenplay, Adapted Lee Hall & Richard Curtis

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

2011 Won Southeastern Film Critics Association Award Top 10 Film

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

2011 Nominated WAFCA Award Best Art Direction Lee Sandales (set decorator); Rick Carter (production designer)

2011 Nominated WAFCA Award Best Cinematography Janusz Kaminski

2011 Nominated WAFCA Award Best Score John Williams

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Jeremy Irvine

Emily Watson

Peter Mullan

Tom Hiddleston

David Thewlis

Benedict Cumberbatch

Toby Kebbell

Eddie Marsan

Geoff Bell

Patrick Kennedy

Niels Arestrup

Celine Buckens

David Kross

Rainer Bock

Nicolas Bro

Leonard Carow

Robert Emm

Liam Cunningham

David Dencik

A tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.

The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. "War Horse" is one of the great stories of friendship and war.

Filming took place under the codename Dartmoor.

During filming fourteen different horses were used as the main horse character Joey, eight of them portraying him as an adult animal, four as a colt and two as foals.

Based on both a children's novel of the same name set during World War I, by Michael Morpurgo, first published in the United Kingdom in 1982, and the 2007 stage adaptation, also of the same name.

What a gorgeous, breathtaking, epic adventure this is. Reviewed by: Richard Roeper of Reelz Channel.

It's not a knock on Steven Spielberg to say he is history's finest maker of children's movies. His capacity to evoke simplicity, awe, beauty and unconditional love are his genius, and his vision of the children's story War Horse is a gorgeous, majestic fable about a boy who yearns to be reunited with his steed. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith of The New York Post.

War Horse gets to you. It's one from the heart. Reviewed by: Peter Travers of Rolling Stone.

War Horse is bold, not afraid of sentiment and lets out all the stops in magnificently staged action sequences. Its characters are clearly defined and strongly played by charismatic actors. Its message is a universal one. Reviewed by: Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times.

War Horse's primary attraction is not the story of how it makes us feel but its impressive re-creation of the Great War's battlefields and some stunningly beautiful camerawork by cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Reviewed by: James Berardinelli of Reel Views.

Since he's (Spielberg) a director largely incapable of understatement, War Horse is served up with a self-aggrandizing, distracting surplus of Norman Rockwell backlighting, aerial landscape shots designed to out-swoop David Lean's, and an aggravated sense of doggone wonderment amplified by the director's dependence on John Williams's bombastic score. Reviewed by: J. Hoberman of The Village Voice.

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