Won 3 Academy Awards (Oscar): Best Actress in a Leading Role,Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical), Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Won 1 David di Donatello: Best Foreign Production - Won 2 BAFTA Awards: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, Best Actress - Won 2 Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Motion Picture Actor Drama - Won 1 Best Cinematography Award, British Society of Cinematographers -  Won 1 Directors Guild of America Award: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - Won 1 Golden Laurel Award: Female Dramatic Performance - Won 1 New York Film Critics Circle Award: Best Film - Won 1 Writers Guild of America Award (Screen): Best Written American Drama - Won 1 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award: Best British Screenplay - 4 Nominations Academy Awards (Oscar): Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Picture - 6 Nominations BAFTA Film Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sceenplay, Best Sound Track, Best Supporting Actor, UN Award - 5 Nominations Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture Actress Drama, Best Motion Picture Director, Best Original Score, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress - 1 Nomination Golden Laurel Drama

Il leone d'inverno

(The Lion in Winter)

1968, regia di Anthony Harvey

Scheda: Nazione: GB - Produzione: Haworth Productions - Distribuzione: Euro Domovideo, Ricordi Video, General Video, BMG Video, MGM-UA Home Entertainment, Embassy Pictures Corporation, Globo Video, Image Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment - Soggetto: dall'opera teatrale di James Goldman e dal romanzo Becket e il suo re di Jean Anouilh - Sceneggiatura: James Goldman - Fotografia: Douglas Slocombe - Montaggio: John Bloom - Scenografia: Peter Murton - Costumi: Margaret Furse - Musiche: John Barry - Formato: Panavision Eastmancolor - Durata: 134'.

Cast: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow, Nigel Stock, Kenneth Ives, O.Z. Whitehead, Fran Stafford, Ella More, Kenneth Griffith, Henry Woolf, Karol Hagar, Mark Griffith.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - kataweb.it - mymovies.it - film.spettacolo.virgilio.it - film.it - cinekolossal.com: «Nel Natale del 1183, Enrico II re d'Inghilterra, riunisce la corte per stabilire chi sarà il suo erede tra i tre figli legittimi. Ma sulla scelta nasce uno scontro con sua moglie, la regina Eleonora d'Aquitania. Super drammone storico in costume. Vive sull'imponente duetto Peter O'Toole-Katharine Hepburn impreziosito da dialoghi eccellenti e dalla notevole caratterizzazione dei due divi. Al loro fianco agiscono gli attori del domani, con particolare riferimento ai due esordienti Anthony Hopkins e Timothy Dalton. La Hepburn, al suo terzo Oscar, si avvicina al record di tutti i tempi che stabilirà nel 1981 con la performance in Sul lago dorato, e per la quale si aggiudicherà la quarta statuetta, record mai superato. Eccellente ambientazione e ottimo accompagnamento musicale, eccessivamente definito, attraverso un opinabile sondaggio di una radio inglese - pubblicizzato ma fatto da lavavetri più che da addetti ai lavori - tra le migliori trenta colonne sonore mai realizzate».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - rottentomatoes.com - filmcritic.com - greencine.com - rinkworks.com - en.wikipedia.org - allmovie.com: «She year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), long exiled to a faraway castle, is "invited" to join Henry and their three sons for a family reunion. In this way, Henry hopes to maintain a stronghold on his Empire and to prevent the balance of power from shifting to Eleanor or to one of his sons: Richard the Lion-Hearted (Anthony Hopkins in his movie debut), Prince Geoffrey (John Castle), or Prince John (Nigel Terry). Also on hand for the get-together is Henry's mistress Princess Alais (Jane Merrow) — who covets the King's influence — and the Princess' brother, King Philip of France (Timothy Dalton). Despite Henry's efforts to keep his wife and offspring at arms' length (and away from the throne), Eleanor successfully reunites the brood, assuring that her power will not only be restored, but will last long after her death».

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