Elizabeth
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UPC: 5-050582-585810 (HD DVD)
Region Coding: No Region Coding
Production Year: 1998
Rating: 15 (Suitable for 15 years and over)
Running Time: 123 min.
DVD Release: 9/8/2008
Case Type: HD Slim
Video Formats: Widescreen 1.85:1
Disc Formats: Single Sided, Dual Layered
SRP: £4.99
Academy Award® winners Cate Blanchett*, Geoffrey Rush** and Richard Attenborough*** lead a distinguished cast in Elizabeth - the critically acclaimed epic of the queen's turbulent and treacherous rise to power.

Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naive girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.

Relive the majesty and drama of one of history's greatest monarchs in this stunning production that was honored with 7 Academy Award® nominations including Best Picture!

*2004 Best Supporting Actress, The Aviator.
**1996 Best Actor, Shine.
***1982 Best Director, Gandhi.

Genres
Romance
Drama


Studios
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Channel Four Films
Working Title
Media Companies: Universal Pictures
Features
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Audio Commentary
Subtitles
Chinese
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Korean
Norwegian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Audio Tracks
English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
French Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
Italian Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
German Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
Commentary Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
Cast
Liz Giles as Female Martyr
Rod Culbertson as Master Ridley
Paul Fox as Male Martyr
Terence Rigby as Bishop Gardiner
Christopher Eccleston as Duke of Norfolk
Peter Stockbridge as Palace Chamberlain
Amanda Ryan as Lettice Howard
Kathy Burke as Queen Mary Tudor
Valerie Gale as Mary's Dwarf
George Yiasoumi as King Philip II of Spain
James Frain as Alvaro de la Quadra
Jamie Foreman as Earl of Sussex
Edward Hardwicke as Earl of Arundel
Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I
Emily Mortimer as Kat Ashley
Joseph Fiennes as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Kelly Macdonald as Isabel Knollys
Wayne Sleep as Dance Tutor
Sally Grey as Lady in Waiting
Kate Loustau as Lady in Waiting
Elika Gibbs as Lady in Waiting
Sarah Owen as Lady in Waiting
Lily Allen as Lady in Waiting
Joe White as Master of the Tower
Matt Andrews as Norfolk's Man
Liam Foley as Norfolk's Man
Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham
Ben Frain as Young French Man
Richard Attenborough as Sir William Cecil
Lewis Jones as Priest
Michael Beint as Bishop Carlisle
Angus Deayton as Waad, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Eric Cantona as Monsieur de Foix
Kenny Doughty as Sir Thomas Elyot
Hayley Burroughs as Elizabeth's Dwarf
Fanny Ardant as Mary of Guise
Joseph O'Connor as Earl of Derby
Brendan O'Hea as Lord William Howard
Edward Highmore as Lord Harewood
Daniel Moynihan as First Bishop
Jeremy Hawk as Second Bishop
James Rowe as Bishop (in Cellar)
Donald Pelmear as Third Bishop
Tim Bevan as Handsome Man
Charles Cartmell as Dudley's Man
Edward Purver as Dudley's Man
Vincent Cassel as Duc d'Anjou
John Gielgud as The Pope
Daniel Craig as John Ballard
Vladimir Vega as Vatican Cardinal
Alfie Allen as Arundel's Son
Daisy Bevan as Arundel's Daughter
Jennifer Lewicki as Arundel's Nursemaid
Viviane Horne as Arundel's Wife
Nick Smallman as Walsingham's Man
Crew
Direction:
Shekhar Kapur: Director
Writing:
Michael Hirst: Writer
Production:
Alison Owen: Producer
Eric Fellner: Producer
Tim Bevan: Producer
Cinematography:
Remi Adefarasin: Director of Photography
Film Editing:
Jill Bilcock: Film Editor
Music:
David Hirschfelder: Composer
Sound:
David Stephenson: Sound
Mark Auguste: Supervising Sound Editor
Mike Dawson: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art:
Alexandra Byrne: Costume Designer
John Myhre: Production Designer
Jenny Shircore: Make-up Artist
Ivana Primorac: Make-up Artist
Chrissie Whitney: Make-up Artist
Lisa Pickering: Make-up Artist
Christine Greenwood: Make-up Artist
Karen Ferguson: Make-up Artist
Miranda Davidson: Make-up Artist
Anita Burger: Make-up Artist
Suzi Turnbull: Costume Designer
Jonathan Lee: Art Director
Lucy Richardson: Art Director
George Gibbs: Visual Effects
Peter Chiang: Visual Effects