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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = A Queen Is Crowned<br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| image = A Queen Is Crowned FilmPoster.jpeg<br />
| director = Michael Waldman<br />
| producer = [[Castleton Knight]]<br />
| writer = [[Christopher Fry]]<br />
| narrator = [[Laurence Olivier]]<br />
| cinematography =<br />
| editing =<br />
| music = [[Guy Warrack]]<br />
| studio = [[The Rank Organisation]]<br />
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]]<br />
| released = {{film date|1953|6|2|df=yes}}<br />
| runtime = 79 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
}}<br />
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'''''A Queen Is Crowned''''' is a 1953 British [[Technicolor]] [[documentary film]] written by [[Christopher Fry]]. The film documents the 1953 [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]], with a narration of events by [[Laurence Olivier]]. It was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]] and was the first winner of the now-defunct [[Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film]].<ref name="Oscars1954">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners |access-date=20 August 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093858/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/26th-winners.html |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/39812/A-Queen-Is-Crowned/details |title=NY Times: A Queen Is Crowned |access-date=8 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521072528/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/39812/A-Queen-Is-Crowned/details |archive-date=21 May 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |date=2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Winners & Nominees Documentary|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/documentary|website=GoldenGlobes.com|publisher=[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref> The film was one of the most popular at the British box office in 1953.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17|magazine=Screen|page=259|volume=32|issue=3|title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry|first=Janet|last=Thumim}}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Laurence Olivier]] as Narrator<br />
* [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] as Herself<br />
* [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] as Himself <br />
* [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] as Herself <br />
* [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] as Himself<br />
* [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] as Himself<br />
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==See also==<br />
*''[[Royal Journey]]''<br />
* [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0046222|title=A Queen Is Crowned}}<br />
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{{Elizabeth II}}<br />
{{Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film}}<br />
{{National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film}}<br />
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[[Category:1953 films]]<br />
[[Category:1953 documentary films]]<br />
[[Category:British films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:British documentary films]]<br />
[[Category:Coronation of Elizabeth II]]<br />
[[Category:Films about Elizabeth II]]<br />
[[Category:Documentary films about British royalty]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Castleton Knight]]<br />
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru]]</div>->Sc2353