Woodfall Film Productions was a British film production company established in the late 1950s. It was established by Tony Richardson , John Osborne and Harry Saltzman to make a screen adaptation of Osborne's hit play Look Back in Anger . The film version , directed by Richardson and produced by Saltzman, was released in 1959.
2-509: Following its critical success, Woodfall, under the effective control of Richardson, produced several of the most significant British films of the 1960s. These include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). A later Woodfall film, Tom Jones (1963), won four Academy Awards in 1964. According to film director Desmond Davis , Woodfall Films brought
4-585: A new era of realism to British films, strongly influenced by the French nouvelle vague . Woodfall became dormant after Richardson's death in 1991, but in 2014 his surviving family agreed that the films be restored and acquired the copyrights . In 2018, the British Film Institute published a box set of eight of the most significant Woodfall films, Woodfall - A Revolution in British Cinema , and ran
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