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Directed by | Lone Scherfig |
Screenplay by | Nick Hornby |
Based on | An Education by Lynn Barber |
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Cinematography | John de Borman |
Edited by | Barney Pilling |
Music by | Paul Englishby |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $7.5 million[1] |
Box office | $26.1 million[1] |
An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby. It stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David, the charming conman who seduces her. The film was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 2010: Best Picture,[4] Best Adapted Screenplay for Nick Hornby, and Best Actress for Carey Mulligan.[5]
An Education premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.[6] It screened on 10 September 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival[7] and was featured at the Telluride by the Sea Film Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 19 September 2009.[8] The film was shown on 9 October 2009, at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It was released in the US on 16 October 2009 and in the UK on 30 October 2009.