Editing Four Weddings and a Funeral

{{Short description|1994 British film by Mike Newell}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Four Weddings and a Funeral
| image          = Four weddings poster.jpg
| alt            = UK theatrical release poster
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]
| producer       = [[Duncan Kenworthy]]
| writer         = [[Richard Curtis]]
| starring      = {{Plainlist|
* [[Hugh Grant]]
* [[Andie MacDowell]]
* [[Kristin Scott Thomas]]
* [[Simon Callow]]
* [[James Fleet]]
* [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]]
* [[Charlotte Coleman]]
* [[David Bower]]
* [[Corin Redgrave]]
* [[Rowan Atkinson]]}}
| music          = [[Richard Rodney Bennett]]
| editing        = [[Jon Gregory (film editor)|Jon Gregory]]
| cinematography = [[Michael Coulter]]
| studio         = {{plainlist|
* [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]
* [[Channel Four Films]]
* [[Working Title Films]]
}}
| distributor    = [[Rank Film Distributors]]
| released       = {{Film date|1994|1|20|[[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]|1994|5|13|United Kingdom|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 117 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = £3&nbsp;million<ref name=BBCR4reunion/><br/>($4.4 million<ref name="BOM">[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0109831/?ref_=bo_rl_ti Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)]. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 22 August 2016.</ref>)
| gross          = £218.5 milion<br/>($245.7 million<ref>{{Cite web |title=Four Weddings and a Funeral |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0109831/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>)
}}
'''''Four Weddings and a Funeral''''' is a 1994 British [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]. It is the first of several films by screenwriter [[Richard Curtis]] to star [[Hugh Grant]], and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance. [[Andie MacDowell]] co-stars as Charles's love interest Carrie, with [[Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[James Fleet]], [[Simon Callow]], [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]], [[Charlotte Coleman]], [[David Bower]], [[Corin Redgrave]] and [[Rowan Atkinson]] in supporting roles.

The film was made in six weeks, cost under £3&nbsp;million,<ref name=BBCR4reunion>
[[BBC Radio 4]] – The Reunion – Four Weddings and a Funeral, 13 April 2014</ref> and became an unexpected success and the [[List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom|highest-grossing British film]] in history at the time, with worldwide box office total of $245.7&nbsp;million, and receiving [[Academy Award]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Best Original Screenplay]]. Additionally, Grant won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] and the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]], and the film won the [[BAFTA Awards]]' [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]], [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]], and [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] for Scott Thomas. The film's success propelled Hugh Grant to international stardom, particularly in the United States.<ref name="20 Years On"/>

In 1999, ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' was placed 23rd on the [[British Film Institute]]'s [[BFI Top 100 British films|100 greatest British films of the 20th century]]. In 2016, ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine ranked it 21st in their list of the 100 best British films.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dyer |first=James |date=19 October 2024 |title=The 100 Best British Films |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-british-films/ |access-date=24 February 2025 |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]}}</ref> A 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine ranked it the 74th-best British film ever.<ref>{{Cite web |last=de Semlyen |first=Phil |date=14 April 2022 |title=The 100 best British movies |url=https://www.timeout.com/film/100-best-british-films |access-date=26 October 2017 |website=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Curtis reunited director Newell and the surviving cast for a 25th-anniversary reunion [[Comic Relief]] short entitled ''One Red Nose Day and a Wedding'', which aired in the UK during [[Red Nose Day]] on 15 March 2019.<ref name="Deadline Hollywood">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/12/four-weddings-funeral-hugh-grant-cast-richard-curtis-red-nose-day-bbc-nbc-1202514332/|title='Four Weddings and a Funeral' Cast And Creators To Reunite After 25 Years For Red Nose Day Short Film|first=Andreas|last=Wiseman|date=5 December 2018|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref>

==Plot==
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At the wedding of Angus and Laura in [[Somerset]], the perpetually-late best man Charles, his flatmate Scarlett, his aristocratic friend Fiona and her brother Tom, Gareth and his partner Matthew, and Charles's deaf brother David, all gather. All are unmarried. At the reception, Charles meets Carrie, an American woman working in England. They spend the night together. In the morning, Carrie, who is returning to the U.S., laments that they may have, "missed a great opportunity".

Three months later, at the London wedding of Bernard and Lydia, Tom is the best man. At the reception, Charles runs into Carrie, who has returned to the UK. With Carrie is Hamish, her older, wealthy Scottish fiancé. Meanwhile, a pretty young woman, Serena, is attracted to David.

During the reception, Charles is humiliated by several ex-girlfriends, including the distraught Henrietta, who claims Charles is a "[[serial monogamist]]" fearful of commitment. Charles retreats to an empty hotel suite and notices Carrie and Hamish departing by taxi, though Carrie returns to the reception shortly after; she and Charles spend a second night together.

A month later, Charles receives an invitation to Carrie and Hamish's wedding. Charles runs into Carrie while searching for a wedding gift. He then helps Carrie choose a wedding dress. After, Charles awkwardly confesses he loves her, which Carrie gently rebuffs.

A month later, Charles and his friends attend Carrie and Hamish's wedding. Scarlett meets Chester, a Texan at the reception. Henrietta points out her new boyfriend to Charles. Fiona, aware of Charles's unhappiness over Carrie, admits she loves him. Charles, though sympathetic, does not reciprocate her feelings. During Hamish's speech, Gareth suffers a fatal heart attack.

At Gareth's funeral, Carrie and Charles share a brief moment, while Charles and Tom then ponder that, despite their clique's pride in being single, Gareth and Matthew were like a "married" couple. They wonder whether seeking "one true love" is futile.

Ten months later, it is Charles and Henrietta's wedding. While seating guests, Tom meets his distant cousin, Deirdre, whom he has not seen since childhood; they are immediately smitten with each other. Scarlett and Chester are overjoyed to meet again.

Carrie arrives and tells Charles that she and Hamish have separated following a difficult marriage. Charles has an emotional crisis inside the church's back room. After David and Matthew counsel him, Charles decides to proceed with the ceremony. When the [[vicar]] asks whether anyone has reason why the couple should not marry, David uses sign language to say the groom has doubts and loves someone else. Charles confirms this, and a furious Henrietta punches him at the altar, knocking him out and ending the ceremony.

Later at his flat, Charles and the group are discussing the fiasco when Carrie arrives to apologise for causing trouble. Charles again says he loves her and proposes a lifelong commitment without marriage, which Carrie accepts. As they kiss, a thunderbolt flashes across the sky.
 
In an ending photo montage, Henrietta has married an Army officer; David married Serena; Scarlett has married Chester, the Texan; Tom married Deirdre; Matthew has found a new male partner; Fiona is shown with [[Prince Charles]]; and Charles and Carrie have had their first child.

==Main cast==
{{Cast listing|
*[[Hugh Grant]] as Charles
*[[Andie MacDowell]] as Carrie
*[[Kristin Scott Thomas]] as Fiona
*[[Simon Callow]] as Gareth
*[[Charlotte Coleman]] as Scarlett
*[[James Fleet]] as Tom
*[[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] as Matthew
*[[David Bower]] as David
*[[Corin Redgrave]] as Hamish Banks
*[[Rowan Atkinson]] as Father Gerald
*[[Timothy Walker (actor)|Timothy Walker]] as Angus
*[[Sara Crowe]] as Laura
*[[David Haig]] as Bernard Delaney
*[[Sophie Thompson]] as Lydia Hibbot
*[[Anna Chancellor]] as Henrietta
*[[Simon Kunz]] as John
*[[Rupert Vansittart]] as George
}}

==Production==
===Writing===
Screenwriter [[Richard Curtis]]'s own experiences as a wedding attendee inspired ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''.<ref name="15 Facts">{{cite news |author=Cormier |first=Roger |date=10 January 2016 |title=15 Splendid Facts About Four Weddings and a Funeral |website=Mentalfloss.com |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/73509/15-splendid-facts-about-four-weddings-and-funeral |access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref> According to Curtis, he began writing the script at age 34, after realising he had attended 65 weddings in an 11-year period. At one wedding he was propositioned by a fellow guest, but he turned her down and forever regretted it; accordingly, he based the origin of Charles and Carrie's romance on that situation.<ref name="15 Facts"/>

It took Curtis 17 drafts to reach the final version. He initially planned the film as 'Four Weddings and a Honeymoon' but introduced the funeral theme on the advice of [[Helen Fielding]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot - Eight of the most memorable movie weddings |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4FlZmzjqKdWN7HPVlKVN11y/eight-of-the-most-memorable-movie-weddings |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> He has commented on director Mike Newell's influence; "I come from a school where making it funny is what matters. Mike was obsessed with keeping it real. Every character, no matter how small, has a story, not just three funny lines. It's a romantic film about love and friendship that swims in a sea of jokes."<ref name="Anne Thompson">{{cite magazine| url=https://www.ew.com/article/1994/05/06/four-weddings-and-funeral-surprise-hit/| title='Four Weddings and a Funeral' A Surprise Hit |author-link=Anne Thompson (film journalist)|first=Anne|last=Thompson| magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]| date=6 May 1994| access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref>

Curtis chose to omit any mention of the characters' careers, because he did not think a group of friends would realistically discuss their jobs while together at a wedding.<ref name="15 Facts"/>

===Casting===
Curtis, Newell and the producers began the casting process for ''Four Weddings'' in early 1992. [[Alex Jennings]] was cast as Charles, but funding for the production fell through in mid-1992.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fitzherbert |first=Henry |date=15 November 2015 |title=Alex Jennings: I'm Dame Maggie's straight man...I love it |url=https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/619406/alex-jennings-the-lady-in-the-van-dame-maggie |website=[[Daily Express]]}}</ref> Jennings would eventually go on to play a supporting role in Mindy Kaling's [[Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries)|2019 television miniseries adaptation of the film]]. The team continued holding auditions for over a year, seeing roughly 70 actors for the role of Charles before Hugh Grant.<ref name="20 Years On">{{cite news |author=Lamont |first=Tom |date=26 April 2014 |title=Four Weddings and a Funeral 20 Years On: Richard Curtis Remembers |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/27/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-20-years-richard-curtis-remembers |access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref>

Grant was ready to give up acting as a career when he received the script for ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''; he stated in 2016 that: "I wasn't really getting any work at all, and then to my great surprise this script came through the letterbox from my agent, and it was really good. And I rang on and said there must be a mistake, you've sent me a good script."<ref name="SAG-AFTRA Foundation">{{cite video| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3lUJt4KmJw&t=959s| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/y3lUJt4KmJw| archive-date=7 November 2021 | url-status=live| title=Conversations with Hugh Grant| author=SAG-AFTRA Foundation| publisher=[[YouTube]]| date=19 August 2016| access-date=27 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Initially, writer Richard Curtis, who had modelled the character of Charles after himself, was opposed to casting Grant in the role, because he thought Grant was too handsome. Curtis favoured casting [[Alan Rickman]], but Rickman refused to audition. Curtis was eventually persuaded by Newell and the producers to approve Grant's casting.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=14 March 2019 |title='Four Weddings and a Funeral' at 25: Richard Curtis, Working Title et al Recall a Film That Transformed the UK Biz |url=https://deadline.com/2019/03/four-weddings-funeral-richard-curtis-working-title-mike-newell-british-industry-1202575370/ |website=[[Deadline (website)|Deadline]]}}</ref>

[[Jeanne Tripplehorn]] was originally cast as Carrie, but she had to drop out before filming when her mother died.<ref>{{cite news |author=Whitworth |first=Melissa |date=7 June 2006 |title=How Jeanne Tripplehorn learnt to stop worrying and love polygamy |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3652960/How-Jeanne-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-polygamy.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=30 June 2018 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3652960/How-Jeanne-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-polygamy.html |archive-date=11 January 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The role was offered to [[Marisa Tomei]], but she turned it down, because her grandfather was sick at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 November 2013 |title=Tomei regrets not doing 'Four Weddings...' |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-tomei-regrets-not-doing-four-weddings-1131439 |website=[[DNA India]]}}</ref> [[Sarah Jessica Parker]] was also reportedly considered. Andie MacDowell was in London doing publicity for ''[[Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day]]'' when she read the script<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bland |first=Simon |date=19 November 2019 |title=How we made Four Weddings and a Funeral, with Andie MacDowell and Mike Newell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/19/how-we-made-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-andie-macdowell-mike-newell |website=[[TheGuardian.com]]}}</ref> and was subsequently cast.<ref name="15 Facts"/> MacDowell took a 75% cut in her fee to appear, receiving $250,000 upfront, but due to the success of the film, she earned around $3 million.<ref name=bells>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=24 October 1994|page=6|title=Bells still chiming for the 'Four Weddings' crew|last=Dawtrey|first=Adam}}</ref>

Grant's participation hit another stumbling block when his agent requested a £5,000 rise over the £35,000 salary Grant was offered. The producers initially refused because of the extremely tight budget, but eventually agreed. The supporting cast members were paid £17,500 apiece.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Reunion |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040h53l |website=BBC Radio 4 The Reunion |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>

===Production===
[[Duncan Kenworthy]] produced the film while on sabbatical from [[Jim Henson Productions]].<ref name=bells/> Pre-production for the movie was a long process because funding was erratic, falling through in mid-1992 and leading to much uncertainty.<ref name="20 Years On"/> Finally in early 1993, [[Working Title Films]] stepped in to close the gap. Nonetheless, another $1.2 million was cut just before production began in the summer of 1993, forcing the film to be made in just 36 days with a final budget of £2.7 million (approximately $4.4 million in 1994).<ref name="20 Years On"/> [[Channel Four Films]] contributed £800,000.<ref name=bells/> The budget was so tight that extras had to wear their own wedding clothes, while Rowan Atkinson appeared as a vicar at two of the weddings so production would not have to pay another actor.<ref name="15 Facts"/>

Future [[Home Secretary]] and [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) [[Amber Rudd]] was given the credit of "Aristocracy Coordinator" after she arranged for several aristocrats to make uncredited appearances as wedding extras, including [[Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire|Peregrine Cavendish]], who was at the time Marquess of Hartington, and the [[Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton|Earl of Woolton]], who conveniently wore their own [[Morning dress|morning suits]].<ref name="15 Facts"/>

To make Grant look more nerdy, the producers styled him with shaggy hair, glasses and deliberately unflattering, ill-fitting clothes.<ref>{{cite video| title=The Wedding Planners: Making of Four Weddings and a Funeral| medium=dvd| publisher=Sony Pictures Home Entertainment| year=2006}}</ref><ref name="youtube.com">{{cite video| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YoUbAEFTI| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/c2YoUbAEFTI| archive-date=7 November 2021 | url-status=live| title=Hugh Grant Reviews His Most Iconic Movie Roles GQ| author=GQ| publisher=[[YouTube]]| date=29 June 2018| access-date=1 July 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Grant was encouraged by director Mike Newell to mess up and trip over his lines, written in "convoluted [[syntax]]" as Grant describes them, in order to give Charles a stammering, nervous quality.<ref name="youtube.com"/> Grant, who struggled with [[hay fever]] throughout filming, was unsure of Newell's direction and his own performance, which he thought was "atrocious." Regarding Newell, Grant commented that: "He seemed to be giving direction against what I thought were the natural beats of the comedy. He was making a film with texture, grounding it, playing the truths rather than the gags".<ref name="Anne Thompson"/>

====Filming locations====
The film was shot mainly in London and the [[Home Counties]], including: [[Hampstead]], [[Islington]] where the final moments take place on Highbury Terrace, [[Greenwich Hospital, London|Greenwich Hospital]], [[Betchworth]] in Surrey, [[Amersham]] in Buckinghamshire, the village of [[Sarratt]] in Hertfordshire (wedding number one), [[St Bartholomew-the-Great]] church in London (wedding number four), and [[St Clement's Church, West Thurrock|St Clement's Church]], [[West Thurrock]] in Essex (the funeral).<ref>{{cite web |last=Bloom |first=Phillipa |date=June 1994 |title=The Making of Four Weddings and a Funeral |url=https://www.empireonline.com/features/empire-classic-feature-four-weddings |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321181232/https://www.empireonline.com/features/empire-classic-feature-four-weddings |archive-date=21 March 2014 |access-date=5 June 2015 |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]}}</ref> Exterior shots of guests arriving for the funeral were filmed in Thurrock, Essex overlooking the River Thames with the backdrop of the [[Dartford Crossing|Dartford River Crossing]] and the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.

Stately homes in [[Bedfordshire]] ([[Luton Hoo]] for wedding two's reception) and [[Hampshire]] provided exteriors for weddings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Four Weddings and a Funeral |url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/4wandf.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020612051508/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/4wandf.html |archive-date=12 June 2002 |access-date=16 August 2011 |website=movie-locations.com}}</ref>

===Post-production===
According to Hugh Grant, the initial screening of a rough cut of ''Four Weddings'' went very badly. {{blockquote| "I thought we'd screwed it up. When we went to watch a rough cut, all of us, me, Richard Curtis, Mike Newell, the producers, all thought this was the worst film that's ever been perpetrated. We're gonna go and emigrate to Peru when it comes out so no one can actually find us. And then they had a, a few cuts later they took it to [[Santa Monica]] for a test screening and everyone loved it. And it was a great surprise."<ref name="SAG-AFTRA Foundation"/>}}

Throughout production, [[Gramercy Pictures]], the U.S. distributor for the film, sent frequent transatlantic faxes objecting to the explicit language and sexual content, fearing the final product would not be suitable for American distribution or television airings.<ref name="20 Years On"/> They particularly objected to the opening scene of the movie, in which Charles and Scarlett say the word "[[Fuck]]" over and over, after an initial screening of the movie in [[Salt Lake City]] led the conservative [[Mormon]] members of the city council to walk out.<ref name="15 Facts"/><ref name=":0"/> Accordingly, Mike Newell and the actors agreed to reshoot the scene with the British swear word "[[Bugger]]" to be used in the American version.<ref name="15 Facts"/> The executives also objected to the title, believing ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' would turn off male viewers from the film. In its place they suggested such titles as ''True Love and Near Misses'', ''Loitering in Sacred Places'', ''Skulking Around'' and ''Rolling in the Aisles'', none of which were accepted.<ref name="20 Years On"/>

===Music and soundtrack===
The [[original score]] was composed by British composer [[Richard Rodney Bennett]]. The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a [[cover version]] of [[The Troggs]]' "[[Love Is All Around]]" performed by [[Wet Wet Wet]] that remained at number 1 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth biggest selling single of all time in Britain. This song would later be adapted into "Christmas Is All Around" and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis' 2003 film ''[[Love Actually]]'', in which Grant also stars. The soundtrack album sold more than 750,000 units.<ref name=bells/>

==Release==
''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' had its world premiere in January 1994 at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]].<ref name="20 Years On"/>

It opened in the United States on 11 March 1994 in five theatres. The box office receipts from the first five days of the film's general release in the United States so impressed the movie's distributor that it decided to spend lavishly on promotion, buying full-page newspaper ads and TV-spots totaling some $11 million.<ref name="20 Years On"/> The movie also benefited from much free publicity because of Grant's reception in the United States, where he became an instant [[sex symbol]] and undertook a successful media tour promoting the film.<ref name=":0"/> Producer Duncan Kenworthy stated that "It was the most amazing luck that when Hugh went on the publicity trail he turned out to be incredibly funny, and very like the character of Charles. That doesn't ever happen."<ref name="20 Years On"/> The film had a [[wide release]] in the United States on 15 April 1994.

At the UK premiere in [[Leicester Square]] on 11 May 1994, Hugh Grant's then-girlfriend [[Elizabeth Hurley]] garnered much publicity for the film when she wore a [[Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley|black Versace safety-pin dress]] which became a sensation in the press.<ref name="20 Years On"/> The film opened in the UK on 13 May 1994.

==Reception==
===Critical response===
''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' received critical acclaim.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Foley |first=Rachel |date=15 March 2019 |title=Four Weddings and a Funeral's Comic Relief sequel: All you need to know |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47553029 |access-date=25 June 2024 |work=[[BBC News Online]] |quote=Four Weddings was actually released in the US two months before its UK debut, by which time, it had already garnered critical acclaim}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dawtrey |first=Adam |date=21 February 1994 |title=Rickman, Grant join 'Big Adventure' |url=https://variety.com/1994/film/news/rickman-grant-join-big-adventure-118515/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |quote=winning positive reviews at the Sundance Film Festival}}</ref> On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on 134 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's critics consensus states, "Hugh Grant ably snatches up the bouquet of leading man status with ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'', a sparkling romantic comedy given real charm by its chummy ensemble and Richard Curtis' sharp-witted screenplay."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|four_weddings_and_a_funeral|Four Weddings and a Funeral}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] assigned the film a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/four-weddings-and-a-funeral|title=Four Weddings and a Funeral Reviews|website=Metacritic}}</ref>

Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it "delightful and sly", and directed with "light-hearted enchantment" by Newell. He praised Grant's performance, describing it as a kind of "endearing awkwardness".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=18 March 1994 |title=Four Weddings And A Funeral |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-1994 |access-date=16 August 2011 |website=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> [[Todd McCarthy]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it a "truly beguiling romantic comedy" which was "frequently hilarious without being sappily sentimental or tiresomely retrograde."<ref>{{cite magazine |author=McCarthy |first=Todd |author-link=Todd McCarthy |date=19 January 1994 |title=Four Weddings and a Funeral Review |url=https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-1200435232/#! |magazine=Variety |access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref> Producer Duncan Kenworthy later attributed much of the success of ''Four Weddings'' at the box office to McCarthy's review.<ref name="20 Years On"/>

Writing for the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'', [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] called the film "generic" and "standard issue", stating that the audience should not "expect to remember it ten minutes later".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenbaum |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Rosenbaum |title=Four Weddings and a Funeral |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/four-weddings-and-a-funeral/Film?oid=1064944 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015115101/https://chicagoreader.com/chicago/four-weddings-and-a-funeral/Film/?oid=1064944 |archive-date=15 October 2012 |access-date=16 August 2011 |website=[[Chicago Reader]] |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine writer [[Richard Corliss]] was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would "forget all about [the movie] by the time they leave the multiplex," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Corliss |date=14 March 1994 |title=Well Groomed |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980327,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712081805/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980327,00.html |archive-date=12 July 2007 |access-date=16 August 2011 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>

===Box office===
Upon its [[limited release]] in the United States, ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' opened with $138,486 from five theatres.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=1994&wknd=10&p=.htm Weekend Box Office Results for 11–13 March 1994]. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 August 2011.</ref> In its [[wide release]], the film topped the [[List of 1994 box office number-one films in the United States|box office]] with $4.2 million.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=1994&wknd=15&p=.htm Weekend Box Office Results for 15–17 April 1994]. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 August 2011.</ref> The film would go on to gross $52.7 million in the United States and Canada.<ref name="BOM"/>

In the United Kingdom, the film grossed £1.4 million in its opening weekend, a record for a UK production,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Bean proves a runner at home|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=15 August 1997|page=47|last=Scott|first=Mary}}</ref> and £2.7 million in its opening week from 211 theatres. It was [[List of 1994 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom|number one]] for nine consecutive weeks, grossing £27.8 million, making it the [[List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom|second-highest-grossing film of all time in the United Kingdom]] behind ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]''.<ref name=bells/><ref name=ukopen>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=14|date=23 May 1994|title=International box office|quote=$3,970,220; £1=$1.49}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top Films of All Time at the UK Box Office |date =April 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-top-films-of-all-time-2015-2016-04.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610190146/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-top-films-of-all-time-2015-2016-04.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> It surpassed ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' as the highest-grossing British film.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=UK Box Office's Weekend Record-Breaker|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=16 August 1996|page=23}}</ref> In France, it was [[List of 1994 box office number-one films in France|number one at the box office]] for ten weeks, grossing $34.4 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=14 November 1994|title=Exceptions are the rule in foreign B.O.|page=7|last=Klady|first=Leonard}}</ref> It was also [[List of 1994 box office number-one films in Australia|number one at the Australian box office]] for five weeks and was the second-highest-grossing film of the year, grossing $A21.4 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=18|date=13 June 1994|title=International box office}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=14|date=26 September 1994|title=International box office}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Top 10 B.O. Films Down Under 1994|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=OZ8|date=1 May 1995}}</ref> Overall, it grossed $245.7 million worldwide, generating the highest percentage return on cost of films released in 1994.<ref name="BOM"/><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=13 February 1995|page=7|title=World's Champs & Chumps}}</ref> The success of the film cleared Working Title's past losses and generated over $50 million for Polygram, clearing most of their losses in the four years since they started producing films.<ref name=bells/>

===Recognition===
The film was voted the 27th-greatest [[comedy film]] of all time by readers of ''[[Total Film]]'' in 2000. In 2004, the same magazine named it the 34th-greatest British film of all time. It is number 96 on [[Bravo (American TV network)|Bravo]]'s "100 Funniest Movies".

''[[The Guardian]]'', in a 20th-anniversary retrospective of ''Four Weddings'', stated that "Its influence on the British film industry, on romantic-comedy writing, on the pop charts, on funeral readings, on ''haircuts'', was enormous."<ref name="20 Years On"/>

Hugh Grant commented in 2016 on the experience of the film's phenomenal success and its effect on his career: "I was making ''[[An Awfully Big Adventure]]'' at the time that ''Four Weddings'' came out, with Mike Newell again, same director, even tinier budget, in Dublin. And we'd get back from brutal days on the set, very long and no money, and the fax machines...were coming out saying that now your film ''Four Weddings'' is #5 in America, now it's #3, now it's #1 and here's an offer Hugh, for ''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' and they'll pay you $1 million. It was completely surreal."<ref name="SAG-AFTRA Foundation"/>

===Awards and accolades===
==== Year-end lists ====
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* 1st&nbsp;–  Glenn Lovell, ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Lovell|first=Glenn|date=25 December 1994 |title=The Past Picture Show the Good, the Bad and the Ugly – a Year Worth's of Movie Memories|newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]]|page=3|edition=Morning Final}}</ref>
* 2nd&nbsp;– Sandi Davis, ''[[The Oklahoman]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=Davis|first=Sandi|date=1 January 1995|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/2488350/oklahoman-movie-critics-rank-their-favorites-for-the-year-forrest-gump-the-very-best-sandi-declares|title=Oklahoman Movie Critics Rank Their Favorites for the Year "Forrest Gump" The Very Best, Sandi Declares|work=The Oklahoman|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
* 3rd&nbsp;– [[National Board of Review Awards 1994|National Board of Review]]<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125214358/http://nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=1994|url=http://nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=1994|title=Awards for 1994|archive-date=25 November 2010|website=[[National Board of Review]]|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
* 5th&nbsp;– Joan Vadeboncoeur, ''[[Syracuse Herald American]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Vadeboncoeur|first=Joan|date=8 January 1995|title=Critically Acclaimed Best Movies of '94 Include Works from Tarantino, Burton, Demme, Redford, Disney and Speilberg|newspaper=Syracuse Herald American|page=16|edition=Final}}</ref>
* 5th&nbsp;– John Hurley, ''[[Staten Island Advance]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Hurley|first=John|date=30 December 1994|title=Movie Industry Hit Highs and Lows in '94|newspaper=Staten Island Advance|page=D11}}</ref>
* 6th&nbsp;– [[Peter Travers]], ''[[Rolling Stone]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=29 December 1994|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/the-best-and-worst-movies-of-1994-180969/|title=The Best and Worst Movies of 1994|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
* 6th&nbsp;– Sean P. Means, ''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Means|first=Sean P.|date=1 January 1995|title='Pulp and Circumstance' After the Rise of Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood Would Never Be the Same|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|page=E1|edition=Final}}</ref>
* 7th&nbsp;– [[Michael MacCambridge]], ''[[Austin American-Statesman]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=MacCambridge|first=Michael|date=22 December 1994|title=it's a LOVE-HATE thing|newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman]]|page=38|edition=Final}}</ref>
* 7th&nbsp;– [[Kenneth Turan]], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name = "LATimesYE"/>
* 7th&nbsp;– [[Janet Maslin]], ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=Maslin|first=Janet|date=27 December 1994|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/27/movies/critic-s-notebook-the-good-bad-and-in-between-in-a-year-of-surprises-on-film.html|title=CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; The Good, Bad and In-Between In a Year of Surprises on Film|work=The New York Times|access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>
* 7th&nbsp;– Todd Anthony, ''[[Miami New Times]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Anthony|first=Todd|date=5 January 1995|title=Hits & Disses|newspaper=[[Miami New Times]]}}</ref>
* 7th&nbsp;– Steve Persall, ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Persall|first=Steve|date=30 December 1994|title=Fiction': The art of filmmaking|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|page=8|edition=City}}</ref>
* 8th&nbsp;– [[James Berardinelli]], ''ReelViews''<ref>{{cite web|last=Berardinelli|first=James|url=https://preview.reelviews.net/comment/010295.html|title=Rewinding 1994 – The Year in Film|date=2 January 1995|website=ReelViews|access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>
* 8th&nbsp;– Mack Bates, ''[[The Milwaukee Journal]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Bates|first=Mack|date=19 January 1995|title=Originality of 'Hoop Dreams' makes it the movie of the year|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|page=3}}</ref>
* 10th&nbsp;– [[Kevin Thomas (film critic)|Kevin Thomas]], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name = "LATimesYE">{{cite web|last=Turan|first=Kenneth|date=25 December 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-25-ca-12998-story.html|title=1994: YEAR IN REVIEW : No Weddings, No Lions, No Gumps |work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
* 10th&nbsp;– Douglas Armstrong, ''The Milwaukee Journal''<ref>{{cite news|last=Armstrong|first=Douglas|date=1 January 1995|title=End-of-year slump is not a happy ending|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|page=2}}</ref>
* Top 7 (not ranked)&nbsp;– Duane Dudek, ''[[Milwaukee Sentinel]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Dudek|first=Duane|date=30 December 1994|title=1994 was a year of slim pickings|work=Milwaukee Sentinel|page=3}}</ref>
* Top 9 (not ranked)&nbsp;– Dan Webster, ''[[The Spokesman-Review]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Webster|first=Dan|date=1 January 1995|title=In Year of Disappointments, Some Movies Still Delivered|newspaper=The Spokesman-Review|edition=Spokane|page=2}}</ref>
* Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked)&nbsp;– Bob Ross, ''[[The Tampa Tribune]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Ross|first=Bob|date=30 December 1994|title=1994 The Year in Entertainment|newspaper=[[The Tampa Tribune]]|page=18|edition=Final}}</ref>
* Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked)&nbsp;– Eleanor Ringel, ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]''<ref name = "AtlantaYE">{{cite news|title=The Year's Best|newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]|date=25 December 1994 |page=K/1}}</ref>
* Top 10 (not ranked)&nbsp;– Howie Movshovitz, ''[[The Denver Post]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Movshovitz|first=Howie|date= 25 December 1994 |title=Memorable Movies of '94 Independents, fringes filled out a lean year|newspaper=[[The Denver Post]]|page=E-1|edition=Rockies}}</ref>
* Top 10 (not ranked)&nbsp;– George Meyer, ''[[The Ledger]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Meyer|first=George|date=30 December 1994|title=The Year of the Middling Movie|newspaper=The Ledger|page=6TO}}</ref>
* Top 10 (not ranked)&nbsp;– Bob Carlton, ''[[The Birmingham News]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Carlton|first=Bob|date=29 December 1994|title=It Was a Good Year at Movies|work=[[The Birmingham News]]|page=12-01}}</ref>
* Best of the year (not ranked) – [[Jeffrey Lyons]], ''[[Sneak Previews]]''<ref>{{cite episode|host1=Lyons, Jeffrey (host)|host2=Medved, Michael (host)|title=Best & Worst of 1994|series=[[Sneak Previews]]|season=20|air-date=6 January 1995|network=[[WTTW]]|access-date=20 February 2024|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4SqV43_O4}}</ref>
* Best "sleepers" (not ranked)&nbsp;– Dennis King, ''[[Tulsa World]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=King|first=Dennis|date=25 December 1994|title=SCREEN SAVERS In a Year of Faulty Epics, The Oddest Little Movies Made The Biggest Impact|newspaper=[[Tulsa World]]|page=E1|edition=Final Home}}</ref>
* Honorable mention&nbsp;– Betsy Pickle, ''[[Knoxville News-Sentinel]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Pickle|first=Betsy|date=30 December 1994|title=Searching for the Top 10... Whenever They May Be|newspaper=Knoxville News-Sentinel|page=3}}</ref>
* Honorable mention&nbsp;–  William Arnold, ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Arnold|first=William|date=30 December 1994|title='94 Movies: Best and Worst|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|page=20|edition=Final}}</ref>
* Honorable mention&nbsp;– David Elliott, ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Elliott|first=David|date=25 December 1994|title=On the big screen, color it a satisfying time|newspaper=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]|edition=1, 2|page=E=8}}</ref>
* Honorable mention&nbsp;– Robert Denerstein, ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Denerstein|first=Robert|date=1 January 1995|title=Perhaps It Was Best to Simply Fade to Black|newspaper=Rocky Mountain News|page=61A|edition=Final}}</ref>
* Honorable mention&nbsp;– Michael Mills, ''[[The Palm Beach Post]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Mills|first=Michael|date=30 December 1994|title=It's a Fact: 'Pulp Fiction' Year's Best|newspaper=The Palm Beach Post|page=7|edition=Final}}</ref>
* Honorable mention&nbsp;– Jeff Simon, ''[[The Buffalo News]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=Simon|first=Jeff|date=1 January 1995|url=https://buffalonews.com/news/movies-once-more-with-feeling/article_b73e9a1a-9f60-5d7a-a05c-289243ba0483.html|title=Movies: Once More, with Feeling|work=[[The Buffalo News]]|access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>
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==== Awards ====
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col"| Award
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| Recipient
! scope="col"| Result
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Academy Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=1995 {{!}} Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=www.oscars.org |date=5 October 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| [[Duncan Kenworthy]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Best Original Screenplay]] 
| [[Richard Curtis]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| rowspan=10| [[BAFTA Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Film in 1995 {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1995/film |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| [[Duncan Kenworthy]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
| [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] 
| [[Richard Curtis]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]] 
| [[Hugh Grant]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan=2| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actor]] 
| [[Simon Callow]] 
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] 
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| rowspan=2| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actress]] 
| [[Kristin Scott Thomas]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Charlotte Coleman]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]] 
| [[Jon Gregory (film editor)|Jon Gregory]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|Best Film Music]] 
| [[Richard Rodney Bennett]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| rowspan=4| [[Golden Globe Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners & Nominees 1995 |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1995 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=www.goldenglobes.com |language=en |archive-date=9 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209044213/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1995 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Musical or Comedy]]
| ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor – Musical or Comedy]] 
| [[Hugh Grant]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actress – Musical or Comedy]] 
| [[Andie MacDowell]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] 
| [[Richard Curtis]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Directors Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dutka |first=Elaine |date=24 January 1995 |title=DGA Nods: What's It Mean for the Oscars? |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-24-ca-23550-story.html |access-date=27 September 2022}}</ref>
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directing – Feature Film]]
| [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Australian Film Institute|Australian Film Institute Awards]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 November 1994 |title=Muriel, Bubby scoop AFI pool |volume=70 |pages=1 |work=[[The Canberra Times]] |issue=21 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130535538 |access-date=27 September 2022}}</ref>
| [[Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[British Comedy Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=The British Comedy Awards British Comedy Awards 1994 |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/british_comedy_awards/episodes/1994/1/ |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref>
| Best Comedy Film
| ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[César Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 1995 |title=Cesar Award Winners |url=https://apnews.com/article/fc92c385443c4dd9b361adebfed82af4 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref>
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1994|Chicago Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=1994 – Winners Of The 7th Annual Chicago Film Critics Awards |url=https://chicagofilmcritics.org/awards-blog/archives |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=chicagofilmcritics.org|date=January 2013 }}</ref>
| Most Promising Actor 
| [[Hugh Grant]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan=2| [[Evening Standard British Film Awards]]
| Best Actress
| [[Kristin Scott Thomas]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| Best Screenplay
| [[Richard Curtis]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan=4| [[London Critics Circle Film Awards|London Critics' Circle Film Awards]]
| British Film of the Year
| ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''
| {{Won}}
|-
| British Director of the Year 
| [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| British Producer of the Year 
| [[Duncan Kenworthy]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| British Screenwriter of the Year 
| rowspan=3| [[Richard Curtis]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 March 1995 |title='Four Weddings,' 'Forrest Gump' Screenplays Honored |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-20-mn-45029-story.html |access-date=27 September 2022}}</ref>
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] 
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain|Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Writers' Guild Awards 1993 |url=https://writersguild.org.uk/writers-guild-awards-1993/ |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Writers' Guild of Great Britain |language=en-GB}}</ref>
| Film – Screenplay 
| {{Won}}
|}

==Franchise==
===Hulu anthology television miniseries===
{{main|Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries)}}
It was reported in November 2017 that the streaming service [[Hulu]] was developing an [[Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries)|eponymous anthology television series]] based upon the film, to be written and executive produced by [[Mindy Kaling]] and [[Matt Warburton]], with [[Richard Curtis]] also serving as an executive producer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|title='Four Weddings And a Funeral' Anthology Series From Mindy Kaling in Works at Hulu|url=https://deadline.com/2017/11/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-anthology-series-mindy-kaling-hulu-1202199039/|website=Deadline|access-date=2 November 2017|date=1 November 2017}}</ref> In October 2018, it was announced [[Jessica Williams (actress)|Jessica Williams]], [[Nikesh Patel]], [[Rebecca Rittenhouse]] and [[John Paul Reynolds|John Reynolds]] had joined the cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/10/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-jessica-williams-to-star-in-hulu-series-3-others-cast-1202489869/|title='Four Weddings and a Funeral': Jessica Williams To Star in Hulu Series, 3 Others Cast|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|first2=Denise|last2=Petski|date=26 October 2018|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref> The miniseries premiered on 31 July 2019.

===''One Red Nose Day and a Wedding''===
On 5 December 2018, it was announced that Richard Curtis had written ''One Red Nose Day and a Wedding'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rednoseday.org/news/one-red-nose-day-and-wedding-real-thing-and-we-have-so-many-questions|title=One Red Nose Day and A Wedding Is a Real Thing and We Have So Many Questions|website=Red Nose Day USA|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> a 25th-anniversary Comic Relief television reunion short film. The original film's director, [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]], returned, along with the film's surviving cast, including [[Hugh Grant]], [[Andie MacDowell]], [[Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]], [[Rowan Atkinson]], [[James Fleet]], [[David Haig]], [[Sophie Thompson]], [[David Bower]], Robin McCaffrey, [[Anna Chancellor]], [[Rupert Vansittart]], [[Simon Kunz]], [[Sara Crowe]] and [[Timothy Walker (actor)|Timothy Walker]].<ref name="Deadline Hollywood"/> It was filmed on 13–14 December 2018 at [[St James' Church, Islington]], [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 December 2018 |title=St James Church in Islington being used for filming 'Four Weddings |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/st-james-church-in-islington-being-used-for-filming-four-news-photo/1082434954 |access-date=24 February 2025 |website=gettyimages.com}}</ref> It centered on the reunion of all the characters from the original film at the wedding of Charles and Carrie's daughter to Fiona's daughter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kilkenny |first=Katie |date=23 May 2019 |title='Four Weddings and a Funeral' Cast, Lily James, Alicia Vikander Debut Rom-Com "Mini-Sequel" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/four-weddings-a-funeral-cast-reunite-2019-red-nose-day-1213417/ |access-date=24 February 2025 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref> The involvement of additional cast members [[Lily James]] and [[Alicia Vikander]], who played the young lesbians getting married, was not announced until the day the film aired in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/03/lily-james-alicia-vikander-set-for-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-red-nose-day-return-watch-teaser-clip-1202576417/|title=Lily James & Alicia Vikander Set For 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' Red Nose Day Return — Watch Teaser Clip|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=15 March 2019}}</ref> The film aired in the U.S. on their Red Nose Day on 23 May 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/12/red-nose-day-special-2019-date-nbc-1202519843/|title=Red Nose Day Special Sets 2019 Date On NBC|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=13 December 2018|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[BFI Top 100 British films]]
* ''[[Notting Hill (film)|Notting Hill]]'' (1999), also written by Curtis and starring Grant
* ''[[Love Actually]]'' (2003), another film by Curtis starring Grant and Atkinson 
* [[Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley]], worn by Hurley to the film's premiere
* [[List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing]]
* [[Parey Hut Love]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c896116 ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''] at the [[British Film Institute]]
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[[Category:LGBTQ-related romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:PolyGram Filmed Entertainment films]]
[[Category:English-language romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:English-language independent films]]