Billy Elliot Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films, distributed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner
Billy Elliot the Musical "the greatest British musical I have ever seen", and "The Daily Mail" thought it "a theatrical masterpiece". It won four Laurence Olivier Awards: Best New Musical, Best Actor (awarded jointly to James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower, the boys who played Billy), Best Sound design and Best Choreographer. It also won the "Evening Standard" Theatre Award as well as the Critics Circle Award and the Theatregoers Choice Award, all for Best Musical. The original cast album was released on 10 January 2006. On 12 May 2006, the three original Billys appeared together in a performance of the musical to