Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

For the 2005 movie adaptation, see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (movie). For the book, see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Directed byMel Stuart
Screenplay byRoald Dahl[a]
Based onCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Produced by
  • Stan Margulies
  • David L. Wolper
Starring
CinematographyArthur Ibbetson
Edited byDavid Saxon
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures[1]
Release date
  • June 30, 1971 (1971-06-30)
Running time
100 minutes[2]
Country
  • United States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million[4]
Box office$4 million[4][5]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy movie directed by Mel Stuart. It stars Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe. It is a movie version of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.[6][7]

Filming took place in Munich in 1970. It was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. The movie became highly popular in part through repeated television airings and home entertainment sales.[8] In 1972, the movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, and Wilder was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, but lost both awards.

In 2014, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Notes

  1. ↑ Though Dahl is the sole credited screenwriter, David Seltzer made major rewrites to the script and went uncredited.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "AFI Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Archived from the original on May 30, 2023. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". British Board of Film Classification. August 20, 1971. Archived from the original on May 12, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) – Financial Information". The-numbers.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  6. ↑ Falky, Ben (September 12, 2016). "Why Roald Dahl Hated The Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Film". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Willy Wonka's Everlasting Film Plot". BBC News. July 11, 2005. "He thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie," said Liz Attenborough, trustee of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Buckinghamshire.
  8. ↑ "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved August 30, 2016.

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