Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Winter Sleep (2014) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbağ, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Kılıç, Tamer Levent DIRECTOR: Nuri Bilge Ceylan CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gökhan Tiryaki PRODUCTION: Memento Production, Bredok Film Production, Zeynofilm, ARTE France Cinéma

Box Office Performance

Winter Sleep earned $4,018,705 in worldwide box office revenue.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Ebru Ceylan, based on "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov, wishing to make an adaptation for 15 years but not feeling ready. He said it was challenging to write, remarking "You struggle and there are moments you feel you will go nowhere. Some days after the struggle, there is a script, and you forget the process". Ebru, who often debated with him in their collaborations on screenplays opted to end their writing partnership after Winter Sleep. Filming took place during two winter months in Cappadocia followed by four weeks in Istanbul for studio scenes. The film was shot with the Sony F65 camera. The final adjustments to the story line took place when Ceylan edited it.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 19 wins & 32 nominations total

Awards Won: ★ Palme d'Or ★ FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes

Nominations: ○ European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (27th European Film Awards) ○ International Submission to the Academy Awards ○ European Film Award for Best Director (27th European Film Awards) ○ Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film ○ European Film Award for Best Film (27th European Film Awards)

Additional Recognition: The film won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. Jane Campion, Jury President, said at a press conference after the awards program that "the film had such a beautiful rhythm and took me in. I could have stayed there for a couple of more hours. It was masterful." The longest film in competition by far, Winter Sleep's Palme d'Or marked the culmination of the career of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who has twice received the festival's second-place honor, the Grand Prix (for 2002's Uzak and for 2011's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) and who won a directing prize for 2008's Three Monkeys. Nuri Bilge Ceylan also won the award for Achievement in Directing for the film at the 2014 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Ceylan said in his acceptance speech that it was "a great surprise" when he took the stage, noting that it was perhaps a fitting choice in a year that marked the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. Tacitly acknowledging the 2013–14 protests in Turkey that led to the deaths of 11 people, the director said, "I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives". He also mentioned the workers who were killed in the Soma mine disaster, which occurred on the day prior to the commencement of the awards event.