+ List of accolades received by Atonement Director Joe Wright at the UK premiere of Atonement Awards and nominations Award Won NominatedAcademy AwardAlliance of Women Film JournalistsAmerican Society of CinematographersArt Directors GuildBritish Academy Film AwardsBritish Society of CinematographersBritish Society of CinematographersBroadcast Film Critics AssociationChicago Film Critics AssociationCinema Brazil Grand PrizeCostume Designers GuildDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics AssociationEmpire AwardsEuropean Film AwardsEvening Standard British Film AwardsFilm Critics Circle of AustraliaGolden Globe AwardGolden Tomato AwardsGolden Trailer AwardsHouston Film Critics SocietyInternational Film Music Critics AssociationIrish Film & Television AwardsIvor Novello AwardsLondon Film Critics' CircleMotion Picture Sound EditorsNastro d'ArgentoNational Board of ReviewOnline Film Critics SocietyPyongyang International Film FestivalRembrandt AwardRichard Attenborough Film AwardsSan Diego Film Critics SocietySatellite AwardsSt. Louis Gateway Film Critics AssociationTeen Choice AwardsUSC Scripter AwardVancouver Film Critics CircleVenice International Film FestivalWomen Film Critics CircleWorld Soundtrack AcademyYoung Artist AwardTotal number of wins and nominations References Atonement is a 2007 British romantic World War II film directed by Joe Wright. Christopher Hampton adapted the screenplay from the eponymous novel by Ian McEwan. The film focuses on fictional lovers Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie (James McAvoy), whose lives are ruined when Cecilia's younger sister, Briony (Saoirse Ronan), falsely accuses Robbie of a serious crime. The film opened the 64th Venice International Film Festival on 29 August 2007 and competed for the Golden Lion. The following month it screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Atonement was released in the United Kingdom by Universal Studios on 7 September 2007. It was then released in the United States by Focus Features on 7 December 2007. The film earned over £84 million in its combined total gross at the box office.
Atonement earned many awards and nominations in categories ranging from recognition of the film itself to Hampton's screenplay and the cast's acting performances, particularly those of Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan. The film received seven Academy Award nominations and came away with one award for Best Original Score. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists awarded Atonement two accolades from six nominations, while the American Society of Cinematographers and the Art Directors Guild gave the film one nomination apiece. Atonement gathered fourteen nominations at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, the most of any film that year, but ultimately came away with two awards. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey received a nomination for his work from the British Society of Cinematographers and costume designer, Jacqueline Durran, earned a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild. Atonement won three accolades out of five nominations at the 13th Empire Awards.
The film also received five nominations from the Evening Standard British Film Awards, including Best Actress nominations for both Knightley and Romola Garai (who played Briony aged 18). McGarvey, Durran and Sarah Greenwood were awarded the Best Technical Achievement accolade. At the 65th Golden Globe Awards, Atonement was named Best Drama Motion Picture, while Dario Marianelli won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The composer would go on to win five more awards for the score, as well as the Film Music Composition of the Year accolade from the International Film Music Critics Association. Intralink Film garnered two nominations from the Golden Trailer Awards and won the Best Romance Trailer category. Ronan won five awards for her performance including Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 5th Irish Film & Television Awards and Best Young Actress from the Women Film Critics Circle. Atonement earned eight nominations from the London Film Critics' Circle; McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave (who portrayed an elderly Briony) won the British Actor of the Year and British Supporting Actress of the Year awards respectively. Knightley won Best International Actress at the 2007 Rembrandt Awards and was given the Choice Movie Drama Actress accolade from the Teen Choice Awards. Hampton earned a total of thirteen nominations for the screenplay.
Awards and nominations AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipients Result Academy Awards 24 February 2008 Best Picture Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster (producers) Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan Best Adapted Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best Art Direction Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Best Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Alliance of Women Film Journalists 21 December 2007 Best Adapted Screenplay Atonement Best Depiction of Nudity or Sexuality Keira Knightley Best Editing Atonement Best Film Atonement Best Newcomer Saoirse Ronan Best Seduction Keira Knightley and James McAvoy American Society of Cinematographers 26 January 2008 Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Releases Seamus McGarvey Art Directors Guild 18 February 2008 Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film Sarah Greenwood British Academy Film Awards 10 February 2008 Best Actor James McAvoy Best Actress Keira Knightley Best Adapted Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best British Film Atonement Best Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Best Director Joe Wright Best Editing Paul Tothill Best Film Atonement Best Makeup and Hair Ivana Primorac Best Music Dario Marianelli Best Production Design Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Best Sound Danny Hambrook, Paul Hamblin, Catherine Hodgson, Becki Ponting Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan British Society of Cinematographers 7 December 2007 Best Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Broadcast Film Critics Association 7 January 2008 Best Composer Dario Marianelli Best Director Joe Wright Best Film Atonement Best Supporting Actress Vanessa Redgrave Best Young Actress Saoirse Ronan Chicago Film Critics Association 13 December 2007 Best Adapted Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Cinema Brazil Grand Prize 14 April 2009 Best Foreign Feature Film Atonement Costume Designers Guild 19 February 2008 Excellence in Costume Design for Period Film Jacqueline Durran Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 17 December 2007 Best Picture Atonement Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan Empire Awards 9 March 2008 Best Actor James McAvoy Best Actress Keira Knightley Best British Film Atonement Best Director Joe Wright Best Newcomer Saoirse Ronan Best Soundtrack Atonement European Film Awards 6 December 2008 Best Actor James McAvoy Best Composer Dario Marianelli Best Film Atonement Evening Standard British Film Awards 3 February 2008 Best Actor James McAvoy Best Actress Romola Garai Keira Knightley Best Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best Technical Achievement Seamus McGarvey, Sarah Greenwood, Jacqueline Durran Film Critics Circle of Australia 1 February 2008 Best Foreign Film in the English Language Atonement Golden Globe Awards 13 January 2008 Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture James McAvoy Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture Keira Knightley Best Director Joe Wright Best Drama Motion Picture Atonement Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Best Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan Golden Tomato Awards 21 January 2008 Best Romance Atonement Golden Trailer Awards 8 May 2008 Best Romance Atonement – Intralink Film Best Romance TV Spot Atonement "Love Story" – Intralink Film Houston Film Critics Society 3 January 2008 Best Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Best Picture Atonement Best Screenplay Christopher Hampton International Film Music Critics Association 15 February 2008 Best Original Score for a Drama Film Atonement – Dario Marianelli Film Composer of the Year Dario Marianelli Film Music Composition of the Year "Elegy for Dunkirk" – Dario Marianelli Film Score of the Year Atonement – Dario Marianelli Irish Film & Television Awards 17 February 2008 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Saoirse Ronan Best Director of Photography Seamus McGarvey Best International Actor James McAvoy Best International Actress Keira Knightley Best International Film Atonement Ivor Novello Awards 22 May 2008 Best Original Film Score Dario Marianelli London Film Critics' Circle 8 February 2008 British Actor of the Year James McAvoy British Actress of the Year Keira Knightley British Breakthrough Saoirse Ronan British Director of the Year Joe Wright British Film of the Year Atonement British Supporting Actress of the Year Vanessa Redgrave Saoirse Ronan Screenwriter of the Year Christopher Hampton Motion Picture Sound Editors 23 February 2008 Best Sound Editing in a Foreign Feature Film Atonement Nastro d'Argento 14 June 2008 Best European Film Director Joe Wright National Board of Review 5 December 2007 Top Ten Films Atonement Online Film Critics Society 8 January 2008 Best Adapted Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best Editing Paul Tothill Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Best Picture Atonement Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan Pyongyang International Film Festival 26 September 2008 Shooting and Fine Arts Award Atonement Rembrandt Award 10 March 2008 Best International Actress Keira Knightley Richard Attenborough Film Awards 30 January 2008 Best Actor James McAvoy Best Film-maker Joe Wright Best Screenwriter Christopher Hampton Film of the Year Atonement San Diego Film Critics Society 18 December 2007 Best Editing Paul Tothill Satellite Awards 16 December 2007 Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture Keira Knightley Best Adapted Screenplay Christopher Hampton Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 24 December 2007 Best Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Best Picture Atonement Best Score Dario Marianelli Best Screenplay Ian McEwan and Christopher Hampton Best Supporting Actress Saoirse Ronan Teen Choice Awards 26 August 2007 Choice Movie Drama Actress Keira Knightley USC Scripter Awards 2 February 2008 Best Screenplay Ian McEwan and Christopher Hampton Venice International Film Festival 8 September 2007 Golden Lion Atonement Prize of the Forum for Cinema and Literature Joe Wright Women Film Critics Circle 13 December 2007 Best Young Actress Saoirse Ronan World Soundtrack Awards 18 October 2008 Best Original Score of the Year Atonement – Dario Marianelli Soundtrack Composer of the Year Dario Marianelli Young Artist Awards 30 March 2008 Best Performance by a Leading Young Actress Saoirse Ronan
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