An Education ''An Education'' is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir of the same name 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 school ...

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coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can ...

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directed by

Lone Scherfig Lone Scherfig (; born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director and screenwriter who has been involved with the Dogme 95 film movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film '' An ...

and written by Nick Hornby. It is based on the memoirs of the same name by British journalist

Lynn Barber Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944) is a British journalist who has worked for many publications, including ''The Sunday Times''. Early life Barber attended Lady Eleanor Holles School in south-west London. While she was studying for her A-Levels she ...

. The film premiered on 18 January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2009. The film then showed at the Mill Valley Film Festival before being released in the United Kingdom by Sony Pictures Classics on 30 October 2009, and going into wide release in the United States on 5 February 2010. ''An Education'' earned over United States dollar, $26 million in its combined total gross at the box office. The film garnered various awards and nominations, ranging from recognition of the film itself to Hornby's screenplay and the cast's acting performances, particularly those of Carey Mulligan and Alfred Molina. The film received three 82nd Academy Awards, Academy Award nominations, but failed to win any. At the 63rd British Academy Film Awards ''An Education'' came away with one award from nine nominations. Mulligan was named Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards 2009, British Independent Film Awards, where the film was nominated for a further six awards. ''An Education'' received one nomination, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture, from the 67th Golden Globe Awards. Mulligan earned two awards for her performance at the Hollywood Film Festival and Houston Film Critics Society—Breakthrough Actress and Best Actress respectively. ''An Education'' won Best Film from both the Sundance Film and Mill Valley Film Festivals, it would later go on to win Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Four members of the cast were nominated for awards at the London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009, London Film Critics' Circle, along with the film and screenplay. Hornby subsequently received eleven more nominations for his work on the screenplay. Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard both received awards from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, where they were the recipients of the Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction award. The 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards saw the film's cast earn a nomination for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film's music, costume, and hair and make-up also earned four nominations among them. __TOC__

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