Number 9 Films

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Number 9 Films is a British independent film production company co-founded in 2002 by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, after a long collaboration at both Palace Pictures and Scala Productions.[1][2][3]

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Number 9 Films
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Founded2002
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Between them the principles' movies have garnered 57 BAFTA nominations and wins, and 23 Academy Award® nominations and wins.[4][5]

Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen were jointly honoured with the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2019.[6][7]

In 2019, Number 9 Films entered into a multi-year agreement with film studio and cinema chain Shochiku for distribution of its theatrical films in Japan. The studio would also contribute funding for film development.[8][9]

In 2024, Beta Film took a stake in Number 9 TV, a new small screen subsidiary of the production company.[10]

Projects

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Their latest feature LIVING,[11] scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy - a reworking of Kurosawa’s classic IKIRU - received numerous accolades including 3 BAFTA Award nominations[12] and 2 Academy Award® nominations.[13] The company also served as co-executive producers on ANOTHER END,[14] starring Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.[15] Upcoming projects include Fleur Fortuné's THE ASSESSMENT, starring Alicia Vikander,  Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel;[16] award-winning theatre director Marianne Elliott's feature debut THE SALT PATH, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs;[17] and Kei Ishikawa's A PALE VIEW OF HILLS, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of the same name.[18]

Karlsen and Woolley have produced some of the most celebrated independent films in the US and Europe including:[19] Todd Haynes’s CAROL,[20] starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (nominated for 6 Academy Awards®,[21] 6 Golden Globe Awards,[22] and 9 BAFTA Awards[23]); Mark Herman’s LITTLE VOICE, starring Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine (winner of a Golden Globe Award,[24] nominated for 1 Academy Award®,[25] 6 Golden Globe Awards, and 6 BAFTA Awards); Neil Jordan’s THE CRYING GAME, starring Stephen Rea and Forest Whitaker (winner of an Academy Award®,[26] a BAFTA Award, and nominated for 6 Academy Awards®); MADE IN DAGENHAM, starring Sally Hawkins and Rosamund Pike (nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards); Phyllis Nagy’s MRS. HARRIS, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley (nominated for 12 Emmy® Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards,[27] and a PGA Award); Wash Westmoreland’s COLETTE, starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West (nominated for 4 BIFAs and an Independent Spirit Award); and Paolo Sorrentino’s YOUTH, starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel (nominated for 1 Academy Award®[28] and winner of 3 European Film Awards). Karlsen’s credits also include LADIES IN LAVENDER, SIXTY SIX and NEON BIBLE. Woolley’s producing credits also include COMPANY OF WOLVES, MONA LISA, SCANDAL, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, BACKBEAT, MICHAEL COLLINS, THE BUTCHER BOY, STONED (which Woolley also directed) and INTERMISSION.

Filmography

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Year Title Worldwide box office Notes
2004 Return to Sender
2005 Mrs. Harris Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards[29]
2005 Stoned $174,758[30]
2005 Breakfast on Pluto $3.9 million[31] Nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy awards.[32]
2006 Sixty Six $1.9 million[33]
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? $2.7 million[34] Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards[35]
2008 Sounds Like Teen Spirit
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People $19.2 million[36] Production budget: $28 million.
2009 Perrier's Bounty $167,938[37]
2010 Made in Dagenham $15.6 million[38] Production budget: £5 million.
Nominated for four British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards[39]
2012 Midnight's Children $1.6 million[40]
2012 Byzantium $92,544[41] Production budget: €8 million.
2012 Great Expectations $920,099[42]
2014 Hyena $89,526[43]
2015 Carol $42.7 million[44] Production budget: $11.8 million.
Nominated for nine British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for six Academy Awards
Nominated for five Golden Globe Awards
2015 Youth $24 million[45] Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards
Nominated for one Academy Award
2016 The Limehouse Golem $2.3 million[46] Released in 2017.
2016 Their Finest $13.8 million[47]
2017 On Chesil Beach $3.4 million[48]
2018 Colette $16 million[49] Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for two Satellite Awards
2021 Mothering Sunday $2.1 million
2022 Living $12.1 million Nominated for nine British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for one Golden Globe Award
Nominated for three British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four Satellite Awards
Nominated for two Academy Awards
2024 The Assessment
2025 A Pale View of Hills
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