During the first half of his career, Gielgud did not take the cinema seriously. Though he made his first film in 1924, and had successes with "The Good Companions" (1933) and "Julius Caesar" (1953), he did not begin a regular film career until his sixties. Gielgud appeared in more than sixty films between "Becket" (1964), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for playing Louis VII of France, and "Elizabeth" (1998). As the acid-tongued Hobson in "Arthur" (1981) he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film work further earned him a Golden Globe Award and two BAFTAs.