Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) with me on this very obtuse and strange road." He also won the Choice Movie Villain award at the Teen Choice Awards; and at Spike TV's 2008 Scream Awards (filmed on October 18, 2008, and aired three days later), the film won two awards: Best Horror Movie, and Best Actor in a Horror Movie or TV Show (Depp). It was listed as number 490 on "Empire"s 500 Greatest films of all time. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" was released on DVD in the United States on April 1, 2008, and the UK on May 19. A Blu-ray
The Tale of Sweeney Todd of seemingly high-quality elements . . . yet it falls flat because of an ill-conceived script and directorial miscalculation." Ben Kingsley was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie but lost to Christopher Reeve for "Rear Window". The film was released on DVD in January 2008. The Tale of Sweeney Todd The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a 1998 American crime-drama/horror television film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley. The teleplay by Peter Buckman was adapted from a story by Peter Shaw.