Saving Mr. Banks

Credits

Produced by
Alison Owen
Ian Collie
Philip Steuer

Written by
Kelly Marcel
Sue Smith

Directed by
John Lee Hancock

Starring
Emma Thompson
Tom Hanks
Paul Giamatti
Jason Schwartzman
Bradley Whitford
Colin Farrell

Full credits list on IMdB.

Synopsis

When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins (1964), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

Available to watch on Disney+.

2013

NOMINATED BAFTA Outstanding British Film

WON National Board of Review Best Actress (Emma Thompson)

WON Empire Awards Best Actress (Emma Thompson)

WON American Film Institute Top Ten Films of the Year

WON National Board of Review Top Ten Films

WON UK Regional Critics' Film Awards Best On-Screen Duo (Tom Hanks & Emma Thompson)

WON Palm Springs International Film Festival Creative Impact in Directing Award (John Lee Hancock)

NOMINATED Academy Awards Best Original Score (Thomas Newman)

NOMINATED Golden Globe Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama (Emma Thompson)

NOMINATED BAFTA Best Actress in a Lead Role (Emma Thompson)

NOMINATED BAFTA Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Kelly Marcel)

NOMINATED BAFTA Best Film Music (Thomas Newman)

NOMINATED BAFTA Best Costume Design (Daniel Orlandi)

NOMINATED Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Picture

NOMINATED Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actress (Emma Thompson)

NOMINATED Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Score (Thomas Newman)

NOMINATED Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Costume Design (Daniel Orlandi)

NOMINATED Critic's Choice Awards Best Film

NOMINATED AFI Awards Movie of the Year

NOMINATED National Board of Review Top Films

NOMINATED AACTA Awards Best Foreign Film

NOMINATED AACTA Awards Best Screenplay- International (Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith)

NOMINATED PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award)

WON Women in Film and TV Awards Fremantle Media UK New Talent Award (Kelly Marcel- Screenwriter)

WON Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best Actress (Emma Thompson) WON Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best Family Film

WON AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up

7TH PLACE Las Vegas Film Critics Society Top Ten Films

8TH PLACE African-American Film Critics Association Best Film of the Year