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Deborah Davis is a British screenwriter, known for The Favourite (2018). Davis has a background in practicing law and journalism. She wrote the first draft of what would become The Favourite in 1998, under the original title The Balance of Power, and earned an MA from the University of East Anglia.
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In 1705 Great Britain is at war with France. Queen Anne is in poor health; she shows little interest in governing, preferring activities such as playing with her 17 rabbits, surrogates for the children she miscarried or who died in infancy. Her confidante, advisor, and furtive lover Sarah Churchill effectively rules the country through her influenc...
Olivia Colman as Queen AnneEmma Stone as Abigail Hill (later Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham)Rachel Weisz as Lady Sarah Churchill, Duchess of MarlboroughNicholas Hoult as Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl MortimerWriting
Deborah Davis wrote the first draft of The Favourite in 1998. She had no prior screenwriting experience and studied screenwriting at night school. She took the first draft, which was titled The Balance of Power, to producer Ceci Dempsey, who responded enthusiastically.Dempsey has said she was "haunted" by "the passion, the survival instincts of these women, the manipulations and what they did to survive." Before working on the screenplay, Davis had little knowledge of Queen Anne and her relat...
Pre-production
Dempsey had difficulty securing financing for the film due to the script's lesbian content and the lack of male representation, which financers felt would be challenging to market. Almost a decade after she saw the first draft, producer Ed Guineyobtained the script. He was also attracted to the complex plot and relationships of the three women and has said: "We didn't want to make just another British costume drama ... [we wanted] a story that felt contemporary and relevant and vibrant—not so...
Casting
Casting for The Favourite began in 2014 when Lanthimos contacted Olivia Colman. By September 2015, it was announced Emma Stone, Colman, and Kate Winslet had been cast to portray Abigail Masham, Queen Anne, and Sarah Churchill, respectively. By October 2015, Rachel Weisz had replaced Winslet. The Favourite is the second collaboration between Lanthimos, Colman, and Weisz, both actors having appeared in Lanthimos' The Lobster (2015). In February 2017, Nicholas Hoult joined the cast of the film,...
In May 2017, the film's distribution rights were acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures. It had its world premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2018, was screened the film at the BFI London Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival, and was the opening-night film at the New York Film Festival. The Favourite was give...
Box office
The Favourite grossed $34.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $61.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $96 million. Its opening weekend, the film grossed $422,410 from four theaters; its per-venue average of $105,603 was the best of 2018, beating Suspiria's $89,903. The film made $1.1 million from 34 theaters its second weekend (a per-venue average of $32,500),$1.4 million from 91 theaters its third weekend (which followed the announcement of the film's Golden G...
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93 % based on 425 reviews, with an average score of 8.5/10; the website's "critics consensus" reads: "The Favourite sees Yorgos Lanthimos balancing a period setting against rich, timely subtext—and getting roundly stellar performances from his well-chosen stars." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 91 out of 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by PostTr...
Accolades
The Favourite received numerous awards and nominations, starting by winning the Grand Jury Prize and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. It won ten British Independent Film Awards (including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress), seven BAFTA Awards (including Best British Film and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Weisz), and eight European Film Awards (including Best Film and Be...
Lanthimos said: "Some of the things in the film are accurate and a lot aren't." Joe Alwynsaid there was little concern for historical research of characters' backgrounds, saying: In his review of the film, Anthony Lane commented on its anachronisms, saying: "For Lanthimos and his screenwriters[...] all historical reconstruction is a game and to pre...
The Glass of Water, Eugène Scribe's 1840 French stage comedy about Queen Anne and Sarah ChurchillViceroy Sarah, Norman Ginsbury's 1935 play about Sarah Churchill and Queen Anne, which was adapted by Ethel Borden and Mary Cass Canfield as Anne of Englandin 1941The Favourite at IMDbThe Favourite at Rotten Tomatoesscreenwriter. Learn about this topic in these articles: coauthorship of “The Favourite” In Yorgos Lanthimos: The Favourite. …directed a film written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara called The Favourite (2018), about a love triangle between the British queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and two women who compete for her attention (Weisz and Emma Stone).
A visionary director who had written or co-written each of his films since starting out in 1995, Yorgos Lanthimos changed tack with his latest effort, The Favourite, collaborating with...
Deborah Davis is the BIFA/BAFTA winning, Oscar/Golden Globe nominated screenwriter of THE FAVOURITE which she also created and executive produced, starring Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman. It won a record 10 BIFAs and the Venice Grand Jury Prize.
Deborah Davis. UEA Creative Writing graduate Deborah Davis won the Best Original Screenplay award at the 2019 Baftas (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for The Favourite, which she co-wrote with Tony McNamara. Deborah worked on an earlier draft of script, originally titled Balance of Power, while a student at UEA.
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