Powell And Pressburger
The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988) — together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company — made a series of influential films in the 1940s and '50s. Their collaborations — 24 films between 1939 and 1972 — were mainly derived from original stories by Pressburger with the script written by both Pressburger & Powell. Powell did the majority of the directing while Pressburger did most of the work of the producer and also assisted with the editing, especially the way the music was used. Unusually, the pair shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films. Among their most notable successes are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).
In 1981 Powell and Pressburger were recognised for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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