The Duchess (film)

The Duchess
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySaul Dibb
Screenplay byJeffrey Hatcher
Anders Thomas Jensen
Saul Dibb
Based onGeorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman
Produced byGabrielle Tana
Michael Kuhn
StarringKeira Knightley
Ralph Fiennes
Charlotte Rampling
Dominic Cooper
Hayley Atwell
Simon McBurney
Aidan McArdle
John Shrapnel
CinematographyGyula Pados
Edited byMasahiro Hirakubo
Music byRachel Portman
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé Distribution (France and United Kingdom)
BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
Paramount Vantage (United States)
Release dates
  • 5 September 2008 (2008-09-05) (United Kingdom)
  • 10 October 2008 (2008-10-10) (United States)
  • 12 November 2008 (2008-11-12) (France)
  • 23 December 2008 (2008-12-23) (Italy)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
United Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget£13.5 million[2]
Box office$43.3 million

The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. She was a distant relation of Diana, Princess of Wales, where the quote "There were three people in her marriage" in the promotional poster comes from. The Duchess was the older sister of Lady Diana's great-great-great-grandfather, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer.

The Duchess was released on 5 September 2008 in the United Kingdom. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It won the Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 81st Academy Awards.

  1. ^ a b c "The Duchess (2008)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  2. ^ Gritten, David (16 August 2008). "On-set report: The Duchess"". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 April 2020.