A Room With A View Awards

Merchant ivory produced an award winning film adaptation in 1985.
A room with a view awards. Set in italy and england the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of english society at the beginning of the 20th century. Set during the edwardian era of england a room with a view finds lucy a proper young british lady facing a dilemma should she marry the safe nerdish cecil or opt for the unpredictability. Directed by james ivory. It stars helena bonham carter as lucy and julian sands as george and features maggie smith denholm elliott daniel day lewis judi dench and simon callow in supporting roles.
However it isn t long before george unexpectedly enters her life again. Lucy meets george in a florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before lucy returns home where she becomes engaged to cecil. A room with a view awards and nominations. With maggie smith helena bonham carter denholm elliott julian sands.
Forster s novel of the same name 1908. A room with a view is a 1908 novel by english writer e. A room with a view is a 1985 british romance film directed by james ivory with a screenplay written by ruth prawer jhabvala and produced by ismail merchant of e. James ivory accepted the award on her behalf.
Ruth prawer jhabvala was not present at the awards ceremony.