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Cineguild Productions was a production company formed by director David Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and producer Anthony Havelock-Allan in 1944. They produced some of the major British films of the 1940s.〔(Cineguild Productions ) at BFI Screenonline〕 ==History of Cineguild== Havelock-Allan served as associated producer on the 1942 war film ''In Which We Serve'', which starred Noël Coward, who co-directed the picture with David Lean. The director of photography on the film was Neame. Havelock-Allan, Lean, and Neame founded their own company, Cineguild, in 1944. Its first production was an adaptation of Coward's 1939 patriotic play film adaptation. The film was produced by Coward, directed by Lean, and shot by Neame. All three partners—Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame—collaborated on the script. The exact same combination of talents created the adaptation of Coward's comedy ''Blithe Spirit'', with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward. The quartet then produced the classic ''Brief Encounter'', with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward, with Coward helping write the script, an adaption of his 1936 one-act play ''Still Life''. Neame did not serve as director of photography on the film, or subsequent Cineguild productions. Instead, Robert Krasker was the lighting cameraman. ''Brief Encounter'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Lead Celia Johnson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress at the 1947 awards, and Lean picked up the first of his seven Best Director Oscar nominations. Along with Havelock-Allan and Neame, Lean also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of the enduring classics of world cinema, in 1999, ''Brief Encounter'' came in second in a British Film Institute poll of the top 100 British films. Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame moved away from Coward and next filmed two classic by Charles Dickens, creating two classics of British cinema in the process, ''Great Expectations'' (1946) and ''Oliver Twist'' (1948). With ''Great Expectations'', the trio repeated their earlier triumph with ''Brief Encounter'' and were nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Lean also scored his second Best Director Oscar nomination, and the movie won a Best Picture nomination. John Bryan and Wilfred Shingleton were nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration in black-and-white. Guy Green, the director of photography on ''Great Expectations'', won the Oscar for cinematography in black and white. Green would shoot all the remaining Cineguild productions, including ''Oliver Twist'', though future Oscar-winner Geoffrey Unsworth was tasked with filming the exteriors on ''Blanche Fury'' (1948), which was directed by Marc Allégret. ''Blanche Fury'' was shot in Technicolor, and Unsworth had been with the Technicolor Motion Picture Corp. since 1937, in which he was involved in the shooting of the earliest color films made in Britain. After producing ''Blanche Fury'' and ''Oliver Twist'', both of which were released in 1948, Havelock-Allan left Cineguild for Constellation Films, which he founded in 1947. Ronald Neame took over the director's chair on the 1947 film ''Take My Life''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cineguild Productions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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