Emma Thompson has had a long and achievement-filled career as a successful actress. She appeared on TV for the first time in 1982 and was in her first film in 1989 (in Henry V as Catherine of Valois.) Since then she has won two Academy Awards, three BAFTA’s, two Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. Varying from film to TV, scriptwriting and theatre, Emma has an abundance of talent. So its unsurprising to hear that she has been honoured with a hand-print/footprint ceremony Opening Night Gala of AFI Fest 2013 which features Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, in which Thompson plays Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers, on Thursday, November 7th at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
But what are her most notable successes, aside from the awards?
The first that comes to mind was her work on Sense and Sensibility in 1995, a film that she starred in and wrote the script for. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards (of which Emma Thompson won for Best Adapted Screenplay) and was nominated for twelve BAFTA’S (Of which Emma Thompson won Best Actress.) The film left behind a large legacy, being the first English-language period adaptation of an Austen novel to appear in cinemas in over fifty years and is often referred to as the most popular of Austen adaptations.
Saving Mr. Banks, one of her most recent films (besides The Love Punch) follows Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) on his quest to persuade author P.L. Travers to let him put her book Mary Poppins on the big screen. Hitting cinema screens November 29th (UK) and December 13th (US,) I highly recommend you go and see it.
Congratulations to you Emma Thompson for this prestigious ceremony, after such a long and successful career you fully deserve it.
Have a look at our favourite Emma Thompson scene from Love Actually in which she discovers her Husbands affections for another women, hiding, with dignity, her pain.