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Number 9 Films

British film production company

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.

Between them the principles' movies have garnered 57 BAFTA nominations and wins, and 23 Academy Award® nominations and wins.

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

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.

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

01Filmography

Year Title Worldwide box office Notes
2004 Return to Sender
2005 Mrs. Harris Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards
2005 Stoned $174,758
2005 Breakfast on Pluto $3.9 million Nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy awards.
2006 Sixty Six $1.9 million
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? $2.7 million Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards
2008 Sounds Like Teen Spirit
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People $19.2 million Production budget: $28 million.
2009 Perrier's Bounty $167,938
2010 Made in Dagenham $15.6 million Production budget: £5 million.
Nominated for four British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards
2012 Midnight's Children $1.6 million
2012 Byzantium $92,544 Production budget: €8 million.
2012 Great Expectations $920,099
2014 Hyena $89,526
2015 Carol $42.7 million 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 Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards
Nominated for one Academy Award
2016 The Limehouse Golem $2.3 million Released in 2017.
2016 Their Finest $13.8 million
2017 On Chesil Beach $3.4 million
2018 Colette $16 million 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
2024 Another End Co-executive producers
Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.
2024 The Salt Path
2025 A Pale View of Hills
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