Bell's performance received widespread acclaim, and 14-year-old Bell won London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Newcomer of the Year, British Independent Film Award for Best Newcomer, Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer, and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, becoming one of the youngest winners of the awards. In 1999, Bell was chosen from a field of over 2,000 boys for the role of Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old boy who dismays his working-class widowed father and elder brother by taking up ballet. Bell began his involvement with dance after he accompanied his sister to her ballet lessons. His father, John Bell, a toolmaker, left before Jamie was born. In 1998, 25-year-old Billy takes the stage to perform the Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, as Jackie, Tony, and Michael watch from the audience Billy's father is visibly moved by his performance.Jamie Bell was born on 14 March 1986 in Billingham, Teesside, England, where he grew up with his mother, Eileen Matfin, and elder sister, Kathryn. Sometime later, the Royal Ballet School sends him a letter of acceptance, coinciding with the end of the miners' strike, and Billy leaves home for London. Seemingly rejected, Billy returns home with his father. He is rebuked by the review board and, when asked what it feels like when he is dancing, struggles for words, eventually describing it as being "like electricity". Instead, his fellow miners and the neighbourhood raise some money and Jackie pawns Billy's mother's jewellery to cover the cost, and Jackie takes him to London to audition.Īlthough very nervous, Billy performs well, but he punches another boy in frustration at the audition, and fears that he has ruined his chances of attaining his dream. Jackie attempts to cross the picket line to pay for the trip to London, but Tony stops him. Sandra tries to persuade Jackie to let her pay for the audition, but he replies that Billy is his son and he does not need charity. Later, Jackie catches Billy and Michael dancing in the gym and realises his son is truly gifted he resolves to do whatever it takes to help Billy attain his dream. Over Christmas, Billy learns his best friend, Michael, is gay.
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Sandra tells Jackie about the missed opportunity, but fearing that Billy will be considered to be gay, both Jackie and Tony are outraged at the prospect of him becoming a professional ballet dancer. Sandra believes that Billy is talented enough to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, but due to Tony's arrest during a clash between police and striking miners, Billy misses the audition. Jamie Bell (pictured in 2015) received acclaim for his performance as Billy. But, passionate about dancing, Billy secretly continues his lessons with the help of his dance teacher, Sandra Wilkinson. When Jackie discovers this, he forbids Billy to take any more ballet classes.
Unbeknownst to Jackie, Billy joins the ballet class. He happens to see a ballet class that is using the gym while their usual basement studio is being used temporarily as a soup kitchen for the striking miners. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike (the latter being the union delegate), and also his maternal grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease and once aspired to be a professional dancer.īilly's father sends him to the gym to learn boxing, but Billy dislikes the sport. In 1984, Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington in County Durham, England, loves to dance and has hopes of becoming a professional ballet dancer. The story was also adapted for the West End stage as Billy Elliot the Musical in 2005 it opened in Australia in 2007 and on Broadway in 2008. In 2001, the film was adapted into a novel by Melvin Burgess. The film also earned three Academy Award nominations, including for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Jamie Bell became the youngest winner for Best Actor in a Leading Role. At the 2001 British Academy Film Awards, the film won three of thirteen award nominations. Billy Elliot received positive critical response and commercial success, earning $109.3 million worldwide on a $5 million budget. The film premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and then began a wider theatrical release on 29 September 2000 by Universal Pictures. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, Gary Lewis as his father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher.
Set in County Durham, England during the 1984–85 miners' strike, the film is about a working-class boy who discovers his passion for ballet, despite his father's objection and the negative stereotype associated with being a male ballet dancer. Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall.
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