Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

Date of release
1997-12-31
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (80)
Runtime
2h 12m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Gillian Armstrong

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$1.8M
  • Based on: Oscar and Lucinda
  • Awards: 7 · Nominations: 13. Including: AACTA Award for Best Cinematography; AACTA Award for Best Costume Design; AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score; AACTA Award for Best Production Design; AACTA Award for Best Cinematography

Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. The screenplay by Laura Jones is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. The film was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design, and was also nominated for and won several AACTA and other awards.

Production

The film is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. Robin Dalton acquired the film rights before publication and lined up John Schlesinger, who had directed her film Madame Sousatzka (1988), to direct in 1990 with funding from Cineplex Odeon Films. After several years they could not come up with a script anyone was happy with and Schlesinger dropped out.

Dalton, Timothy White, and Mark Turnbull produced the film. Cinematography was by Geoffrey Simpson; Nicholas Beaumont edited the film; and Luciana Arrighi was production designer.

Filming took place in Sydney (as well in the Sydney suburbs of Glebe and Randwick) and all around New South Wales. Scenes were also filmed in Hobart, Tasmania, and some others in Cornwall, south-west England.

The film score was composed by American composer and conductor Thomas Newman. The soundtrack was released by CBS Masterworks Records on 9 December 1997 in Australia and the United States, performed by Newman and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. The soundtrack was completely recorded at Paramount Scoring Stage and at The Village Recorder, in Los Angeles, California on 9–30 June 1997.

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