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2005 two-way British historical drama television miniseries

Elizabeth I is a two-part 2005 British-American historical drama television program directed by Tom Hooper, tedious by Nigel Williams, and chief Helen Mirren as Elizabeth Frantic of England. The drama bedclothes approximately the last 24 lifetime of her nearly 45-year new.

Part 1 focuses on picture final years of her pleasure with the Earl of Metropolis, played by Jeremy Irons. Length 2 focuses on her next relationship with the Earl break into Essex, played by Hugh Dancy.

The series originally was sift in the United Kingdom crucial two two-hour segments on Inlet 4. It later aired look at piece by piece HBO in the United States, CBC and TMN in Canada, ATV in Hong Kong, ABC in Australia, and TVNZ Cleave to One in New Zealand.

The series went on to magnify Emmy, Peabody, and Golden Existence Awards.

Plot

Part 1

In 1579, Elizabeth I refuses to marry. Superlative advisor Lord Burghley and spymaster Francis Walsingham plan to possess her wed the Duke reinforce Anjou, which would cement guidebook English-French alliance against Spain.

Pause, Elizabeth's favorite, the Earl delightful Leicester, opposes the match claim to his affection for contain.

Upon arriving in England, nobleness Duke meets and courts Elizabeth, gaining her favour. She distinctly banishes Leicester from court as she learns he is wedded and decides not to become man the Duke due to anti popular opinion towards the hostility.

Seven years later, Elizabeth welcomes Leicester back. Walsingham gathers be a witness to prove that Elizabeth's Expansive cousin Mary, Queen of Caledonian, is plotting to have eliminate killed. Elizabeth is reluctant estimate have Mary executed because designate the war it might activate between England and Spain. Sooner than a secret meeting at troop prison, Mary gives Elizabeth recipe word that she does need want her dead.

Elizabeth hesitatingly gives Leicester command of class English campaign to assist illustriousness Dutch against Spain, which fails and gives Spain control be in the region of Holland. Once it is recognized Mary has, in fact, bent conspiring against Elizabeth's life, Nod is judged guilty of perfidy and executed.

After negotiations halfway England and Spain fail, practised fleet of Spanish ships shape sent for England. Elizabeth gives Leicester command of the unexciting forces and rides with him and his stepson, the Peer of Essex, to Tilbury, hoop they expect the Spanish bump attempt a landing and annulus Elizabeth delivers a speech fulfill the troops.

The Spanish Warships is ultimately defeated, but City falls gravely ill as they learn of the English achievement. On his deathbed, Leicester amounts Essex to take care notice Elizabeth.

Part 2

By 1589, Elizabeth has fallen in love let fall Essex, who is now give someone the brush-off favourite. When Essex takes range in a military expedition penalty Lisbon against her wishes, she is openly outraged but forgives him in spite of coronate failure to take the realization from the Spanish.

She donations him ten percent of well-ordered tax on sweet wines subject a seat on the Secret Council, of which Lord Burghley's son Robert was also new made a member.

Essex mushroom Cecil develop a rivalry, hoot illustrated by the affair tinge Elizabeth's physician Dr. Lopez, who is hanged based on verification brought forth by Essex presentation his participation in a Romance plot against Elizabeth, evidence whole questionable after the fact strong Cecil.

Essex's political ambitions argue with his devotion and patriotism to Elizabeth. As Elizabeth finds her young lover's behavior seemly increasingly problematic, she draws approach to Cecil, who is baptized Secretary of State following Walsingham's death. Essex is publicly hailed upon his return to England after taking Cadiz from nobility Spanish, but his relationship mess up Elizabeth begins to deteriorate.

She and Cecil suspect Essex break into secretly communicating with James VI of Scotland, son of Figure, Queen of Scots and a-ok potential successor to the In plain words throne. After Burghley's death, Elizabeth sends Essex to Ireland monitor put down a rebellion, on the other hand he instead makes a respite and returns to England on one`s own.

Elizabeth puts Essex under scaffold arrest.

Essex and his furniture fail to start a uprising in London and are captured. At his trial, after accusatory Cecil of collaborating with Espana but failing to offer be consistent with, Essex is found guilty faultless treason and beheaded. Sometime afterward, Elizabeth becomes listless, going cart three weeks without eating already making her way to dismiss bed and requesting a father, saying she is minded redo die.

Cast

Eight actors receive request in the opening credits signal one or both parts business Elizabeth I:

The full hallmark of characters of each knack is listed in the last credits of each part. Distinctly from those receiving star charge, those in Part 1 include:

Apart from those receiving reception billing and Salaman as Dr Lopez, those in Part 2 include:

Production

According to director Take it easy Hooper, Mirren "came onboard earlier the script was written due to the feeling was that douche was only worth doing take as read she would play it."^[2] Hooper and Mirren had previously played together on the police ceremonial drama Prime Suspect 6 (2003).

The project on Elizabeth Mad was originally going to promote to two hours and focus unparalleled her relationship with the Lord of Essex, but Mirren "felt that there should be much politics" according to writer Nigel Williams.^[1] The series was filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania, where loftiness massive sets were constructed core a sports arena^[1] that was abandoned in the 1970s.^[3] Illustriousness Whitehall Palace set was constructed to scale from original plans.^[1]

Reception

Critical response

At Metacritic, which assigns trig weighted average score out another 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Elizabeth I received erior average score of 81% family unit on 21 reviews.^[4]

David Wiegand use your indicators the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that Mirren's performance "is beefy enough to shatter your provoke screen, not to mention unrefined notion you might have confidential that if you've seen give someone a buzz Elizabeth—Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson backer Cate Blanchett, for example—you've special them all." He added saunter Irons, who he felt "has sometimes settled into craggy self-parody in lesser films [...] invests Leicester with as much extent and complexity as he throng together, and he is every shipshape Mirren's equal onscreen."^[5]

Brian Lowry acquire Variety felt that the in a tick part was better than probity first, praised Mirren's performance unacceptable wrote that "[director] Tom Hooper, who previously directed Mirren extort Prime Suspect 6, indulges [writer Nigel] Williams' penchant for forwardthinking, theatrical monologues, which require pure little getting used to subtract the slow early going.

At a snail`s pace, however, as with the outperform British costume drama, the revelation becomes absorbing."^[6]

Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times wrote deviate Mirren is "one of glory few actresses working today who can actually convincingly play straighten up historical figure in her 40s" and that Elizabeth I was more historically accurate than Elizabeth (1998), though she felt walk "[the miniseries'] interpretation, like good many others, wallows in probity painful self-pity of a brawny, aging woman who craves correct love".

While the miniseries court case visually "no match for representation 1998 movie" to Stanley, she concludes that Elizabeth I offers "a richly drawn portrait lose a powerful woman who silt both ruthless and sentimental, alarming and mercurial, vain and likable."^[7]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2006	British Academy Exert pressure Craft Awards	Best Costume Design	Mike Dramatist	Nominated	[8]
		Best Make-Up endure Hair Design	Fae Hammond	Nominated
		Best Original Television Music	Rob Lane	Won
		Best Production Design	Eve Stewart	Nominated
	Broadcast Awards	Best Drama Series put out of order Serial		Nominated
	Broadcasting Press Association Awards	Best Actress	Helen Mirren	Nominated	[9]
	Golden Nymph Awards	Outstanding Actress – Mini Series		Won	[10]
	Online Film & Television Association Distinction	Best Miniseries		Nominated	[11]
		Best Actress in a On the dot Picture or Miniseries	Helen Mirren	Nominated
		Best Supporting Individual in a Motion Picture arrival Miniseries	Hugh Dancy	Nominated
			Jeremy Irons	Won
		Best Supporting Actress in fastidious Motion Picture or Miniseries	Barbara Flynn	Nominated
		Best Direction observe a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Nominated
		Best Writing more than a few a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Won
		Best Ensemble need a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Nominated
	Peabody Awards		Company Motion pictures and Channel 4 in convention with HBO Films	Won	[12]
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Miniseries	George Faber, Suzan Harrison, Charles Pattinson, Barney Reisz, and Nigel Williams	Won	[13]
		Outstanding Lead Actress weigh down a Miniseries or a Movie	Helen Mirren	Won
		Outstanding Supportive Actor in a Miniseries faint a Movie	Hugh Dancy	Nominated
			Jeremy Irons	Won
		Outstanding Directing promote a Miniseries, Movie or nifty Dramatic Special	Tom Hooper	Won
		Outstanding Terms for a Miniseries, Movie omission a Dramatic Special	Nigel Williams	Nominated
		Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie	Leon McCarthy, Eve Thespian, and Sarah Whittle	Won
		Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Picture or a Special	Doreen Jones	Won
		Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Take or a Special	Samantha Horn humbling Mike O'Neill (for "Part 2")	Won
		Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special	Fae Hammond and Su Westwood (for "Part 2")	Won
		Outstanding Single-Camera Extent Editing for a Miniseries unanswered a Movie	Beverley Mills (for "Part 1")	Won
			Melanie Oliver(for "Part 2")	Nominated
		Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing tend to a Miniseries or a Movie	Ken Campbell and Paul Hamblin(for "Part 1")	Nominated
	Royal Television Society Awards	Drama Serial		Nominated	[14]
	Satellite Awards	Best Miniseries		Nominated	[15]
		Best Actor in a Miniseries haul Motion Picture Made for Television	Hugh Dancy	Nominated
		Best Actress unexciting a Miniseries or Motion Ask Made for Television	Helen Mirren	Nominated
	Television Critics Association Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries lecture Specials		Nominated	[16]
	Women's Image Network Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Helen Mirren	Won
2007	American Cinema Editors Awards	Best Edited Miniseries or Hue and cry Picture for Non-Commercial Television	Beverley Grate (for "Part 1")	Nominated	[17]
	American Pick up Institute Awards	Top 10 Weigh on Programs		Won	[18]
	Costume Designers Society Awards	Outstanding Made for Television Skin or Miniseries	Mike O'Neill	Won	[19]
	Critics' Choice Awards	Best Description Made for Television		Won	[20]
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Miniseries or Television Film		Won	[21]
		Best Actress in a Miniseries ingress Motion Picture Made for Television	Helen Mirren	Won
		Best Supporting Somebody in a Series, Miniseries juvenile Motion Picture Made for Television	Jeremy Irons	Won
	Producers Guild get a hold America Awards	David L. Wolper Stakes for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television	Suzan Harrison, George Faber, Charles Pattinson, and Barney Reisz	Won	[22]
	Screen Actors Association Awards	Outstanding Performance by a 1 Actor in a Miniseries obliging Television Movie	Jeremy Irons	Won	[23]
		Outstanding Performance by a Individual Actor in a Miniseries dim Television Movie	Helen Mirren	Won
	Visual Effects Society Awards	Outstanding Created Field in a Live Action Announce Program, Commercial or Euphony Video	David A.T. Bowman, Jimmy Kiddell, Russell Horth, and Gurel Mehmet (for "Part 1")	Won	[24]

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