Editing Roman Holiday

{{Short description|1953 American romantic comedy}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Roman Holiday
| image          = Roman Holiday (1953 poster).jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[William Wyler]]
| producer       = William Wyler
| screenplay     = {{plainlist|
* [[Dalton Trumbo]]
* [[Ian McLellan Hunter]]
* [[John Dighton]]<ref name="WGA">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2011/12/wga-restores-blacklisted-writer-dalton-trumbos-screen-credit-to-roman-holiday-206646/|title=WGA Restores Blacklisted Writer Dalton Trumbo's Screen Credit On 'Roman Holiday'|date=December 19, 2011|author=Writers Guild of America|author-link=Writers Guild of America|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=December 19, 2011|archive-date=December 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219180241/http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/wga-restores-blacklisted-writer-dalton-trumbos-screen-credit-to-roman-holiday/|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
| story          = Dalton Trumbo
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Gregory Peck]]
* [[Audrey Hepburn]]
* [[Eddie Albert]]
}}
| music          = {{plainlist|
* [[Georges Auric]]
* [[Victor Young]]
}}
| cinematography = {{plainlist|
* [[Henri Alekan]]
* [[Franz Planer]]
}}
| editing        = [[Robert Swink]]
| distributor    = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1953|8|20|[[14th Venice International Film Festival|Venice]]|1953|8|27|USA}}<ref name=AFI>{{AFI film|50997}}</ref>
| runtime        = 118 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English<br />Italian
| budget         = $1.5 million
| gross          = $12 million
}}

[[File:ROMAN HOLIDAY – Trailer 1953.webm|thumb|The film's trailer]]
'''''Roman Holiday''''' is a 1953 American [[romantic comedy]] film directed and produced by [[William Wyler]]. It stars [[Audrey Hepburn]] as a princess out to see Rome on her own and [[Gregory Peck]] as a reporter. Hepburn won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance; the film also won the [[Academy Award for Best Story]] and the [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design]].

The script was written by [[Dalton Trumbo]] and [[John Dighton]], though with Trumbo on the [[Hollywood blacklist]], he did not receive a credit, and [[Ian McLellan Hunter]] [[front (identity)|fronted]] for him. Trumbo's name was reinstated when the film was released on [[DVD]] in 2003, and on December 19, 2011, full credit for Trumbo's work was restored. Blacklisted director [[Bernard Vorhaus]] worked on the film as an assistant director under a pseudonym.<ref name=kpcc>{{cite news|last=Cheryl Devall|first=Paige Osburn|title=Blacklisted writer gets credit restored after 60 years for Oscar-winning film|url=http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/19/30417/blacklisted-writer-gets-credit-restored-oscar-winn/|access-date=December 20, 2011|newspaper=89.3 KPCC|date=December 19, 2011|archive-date=January 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112145432/http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/19/30417/blacklisted-writer-gets-credit-restored-oscar-winn/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=latimes-verrier>{{cite news|last=Verrier|first=Richard|title=Writers Guild restores screenplay credit to Trumbo for 'Roman Holiday'|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/writers-guild-restores-screenplay-credit-to-trumbo-for-roman-holiday.html|access-date=December 20, 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=December 19, 2011|archive-date=January 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112164726/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/writers-guild-restores-screenplay-credit-to-trumbo-for-roman-holiday.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The film was shot at the [[Cinecittà]] studios and [[location shooting|on location]] around [[Rome]] during the "[[Hollywood on the Tiber]]" era. The film opened the [[14th Venice International Film Festival]] within the official program.

In 1999, ''Roman Holiday'' was selected for preservation in the [[United States]] [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film has been considered one of the most romantic films in cinema history.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 100 most romantic films ever made |url=https://www.timeout.com/film/the-100-best-romantic-movies |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=Time Out Worldwide|first=Andy|last=Kryza|author2=Phil de Semlyen|date=18 January 2024 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |author=Samuel R. Murrian |date=February 14, 2023|title=We Ranked The 75 Best Romantic Movies of All Time, From 'City Lights' to 'Moonlight' |magazine=Parade |url=https://parade.com/1153839/samuelmurrian/best-romantic-movies/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Clarke |first=Cath |date=2010-10-16 |title=Roman Holiday: No 16 best romantic film of all time |language=en-GB |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/16/roman-holiday-romance |access-date=2023-03-04 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==Plot==
[[Crown prince|Crown Princess]] Ann is on a tightly-scheduled tour of European capital cities for her unnamed nation. After an especially hard day in Rome, her doctor gives her an injection and advises: "Best thing I know is to do exactly what you wish for awhile." She secretly leaves the embassy to explore the city and, as the drug takes effect, falls asleep atop a low wall, where Joe Bradley, an American reporter, finds her. Not recognizing her, he thinks she is intoxicated and takes her to his apartment to sleep it off.

Joe oversleeps and misses the princess's scheduled press conference, but claims to his editor, Hennessy, that he attended. Hennessy shows him a news item about the cancellation of the press conference due to the princess's "sudden illness". Joe realizes the woman in his apartment is the princess from the newspaper photograph, and asks Hennessy what he would pay for an exclusive interview with her. Hennessy offers $5000, and counters with a $500 bet that Joe will not be able to get it.
[[File:Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on Vespa in Roman Holiday trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|Joe and Ann career through Rome on a [[Vespa]] [[scooter (motorcycle)|scooter]]]]
Joe calls his photographer friend, Irving Radovich, and offers to show "Anya" around Rome, without revealing that he is a reporter and that he knows her true identity. Ann cites an important appointment and leaves. Joe follows and sees her explore an outdoor market, buy shoes, and get her long hair cut short. Joe contrives to meet her on the [[Spanish Steps]] and convinces her to spend the day with him, taking her to a street café to meet up with Irving, who takes pictures with a camera concealed in his cigarette lighter. Ann claims to be playing truant from school. When Ann clumsily drives a Vespa through Roman traffic with Joe as a passenger, they are arrested, but Joe and Irving show their "fake" press passes and are released. They tour the [[Colosseum]]. Joe then takes Ann to the [[Bocca della Verità|Mouth of Truth]] and tells her the legend attached to it: if a liar puts their hand in the mouth, it will be bitten off. After Ann tries it after hesitating, it is Joe's turn, and he startles her by pretending that his hand was cut off.

As they attend a dance on a boat that her barber had invited her to, agents from Ann's government try to forcibly take her back. Ann joins Joe, Irving, and the barber to fight them, and smashes a guitar over one of the pursuers heads. When Joe is knocked into the river, Ann jumps in after him. They swim away and kiss as they sit shivering on the riverbank. While drying their wet clothes at Joe's apartment, a radio bulletin says that the people of Ann's country are concerned that her illness may be serious. Ann asks Joe to drive her to a corner near the embassy, where they kiss again. She bids him a tearful farewell.

Upon her return, the princess replies to those attempting to remind her of her duty, "Were I not completely aware of my duty to my family and my country, I would not have come home tonight...or indeed ever again."

Joe tells a disbelieving Hennessy that he did not get the story, but tells Irving he cannot stop him from selling the photographs. Joe and Irving attend the rescheduled press conference, to Ann's surprise. She asserts her faith in relations between nations just as between people, and Joe assures her that her faith is not misplaced. When asked which city she most enjoyed visiting, she begins to say it would be difficult before declaring "Rome. By all means, Rome." Other photographers take pictures with their large press cameras, while Irving makes a show of using his cigarette lighter. Ann speaks briefly with each journalist, and Irving presents her with his photographs as a memento of Rome. Joe remains behind after everyone else leaves, before walking from the room.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Gregory Peck]] as Joe Bradley
* [[Audrey Hepburn]] as Princess Ann
* [[Eddie Albert]] as Irving Radovich
* [[Hartley Power]] as Hennessy, Joe's editor
* [[Harcourt Williams]] as the Ambassador of Princess Ann's country
* [[Margaret Rawlings]] as Countess Vereberg, Ann's principal [[lady-in-waiting]]
* [[Tullio Carminati]] as General Provno
* [[Paolo Carlini]] as Mario Delani
* [[Claudio Ermelli]] as Giovanni
* [[Paola Borboni]] as charwoman
* [[Alfredo Rizzo]] as taxi driver
* [[Laura Solari]] as secretary
* [[Gorella Gori]] as shoe seller
* [[Hans Hinrich]] as Dr. Bonnachoven (uncredited)
}}

==Casting==
{{multiple image
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| footer    = [[Gregory Peck]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]] as Joe Bradley and Princess Ann
| image1    = Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday trailer cropped.jpg
| alt1      = Peck
| image2    = Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday cropped.jpg
| alt2      = Hepburn
}}

Wyler first offered the role to Hollywood favorite [[Cary Grant]]. Grant declined,<ref name=Jaynes-Trach>Jaynes, Barbara Grant; Trachtenberg, Robert. [https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/76185 ''Cary Grant: A Class Apart'']. [https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/76185]. Burbank, California: [[Turner Classic Movies]] (TCM) and [[Turner Entertainment]]. 2004.</ref> believing he was too old to play Hepburn's character's love interest, though he would do so ten years later in ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''. Other sources say Grant declined because he knew all of the attention would be centered on the princess.<ref>DVD special feature</ref> Peck's contract gave him solo [[billing (film)|star billing]], with newcomer Hepburn listed much less prominently in the credits. Halfway through the filming, Peck suggested to Wyler that he elevate her to equal billing—an almost unheard-of gesture in Hollywood.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fishgall |first=Gary |title=Gregory Peck: A Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJId3XPaeR0C&q=peck%20hepburn%20%22roman%20holiday%22&pg=PA174 |date=2002 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-6848-5290-4 |page=173 |access-date=30 November 2022 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127195536/https://books.google.com/books?id=NJId3XPaeR0C&q=peck%20hepburn%20%22roman%20holiday%22&pg=PA174 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Wyler had initially considered [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and [[Jean Simmons]] for the princess role, but both were unavailable.<ref>"Remembering ''Roman Holiday''", special feature on the DVD</ref> On 18 September 1951, director [[Thorold Dickinson]] made a screen test with Hepburn and sent it to director [[William Wyler]], who was in Rome preparing ''Roman Holiday''. Wyler wrote to Dickinson, saying that "as a result of the test, a number of the producers at Paramount have expressed interest in casting her."<ref>[https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/letter-made-audrey-hepburn-star BFI Film Forever, January 22, 2014: ''The letter that made Audrey Hepburn a star''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019033824/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/letter-made-audrey-hepburn-star |date=19 October 2021 }}. Retrieved April 20, 2015.</ref> ''Roman Holiday'' was not Hepburn's first acting role, as she had appeared in Dutch and British films from 1948 and on stage, but it was her first major film role and her first appearance in an American film. Wyler wanted an "anti-Italian" actress who was different from the curvy Italian stars of that era: She was perfect; his new star had, in words attributed to Wyler, "no arse, no tits, no tight-fitting clothes, no high heels. In short a Martian. She will be a sensation."<ref>{{cite book |last=Levy |first=Shawn |title=Dolce Vita Confidential |year=2016 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |location=London |isbn=978-1-4746-0615-8 |page=112}}</ref>

==Filming locations==
[[File:Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday trailer 2.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.0|Ann and Joe meet on the [[Spanish Steps]] in the [[Piazza di Spagna]]]]
The Italian Ministry of Tourism had originally refused permission for the movie to be filmed in Rome on the grounds that it would "degrade Italians".<ref>{{cite book| first=Stijn |last=Colpaert |chapter=What has happened to the centre? Cinematic representations of post-war Rome |title=City + Cinema: Essays on the Specificity of Location in Film |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9789521518652/page/70/mode/2up?q=roman+holiday |year=2007 |publisher=Datutop |location=Tampere |isbn=978-95215-1865-2 |page=71 |editor1-last=Griffiths |editor1-first=Gareth |editor2-last=Chudoba |editor2-first=Minna}}</ref> Once the matter was resolved, filming took place entirely in Rome and in the studios of [[Cinecittà]]. Wyler wanted to shoot the film in color, but doing so on location was so expensive that it had to be done in black and white.<ref name="TCM">{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4096/roman-holiday#articles-reviews |title=Roman Holiday (1953) - Articles |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-date=February 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203103610/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4096/Roman-Holiday/articles.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Locations include:
* [[Mouth of Truth]], [[Piazza Bocca della Verità]], [[Santa Maria in Cosmedin|Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin]]
* Caffè Rocca, [[Piazza della Rotonda]] and [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]]
* [[Castel Sant'Angelo]]
* [[Trevi Fountain]]
* [[Piazza Venezia]]
* [[Piazza di Spagna]]
* [[Spanish Steps]]
* [[Trinità dei Monti]]
* [[Colosseum]]
* [[Tiber|Tiber river]]
* [[Via Margutta]] 51, the location of Joe's apartment where he hosts Princess Ann
* [[Via dei Fori Imperiali]]
* Via della Stamperia 85, the barber shop where Ann has her hair cut
* [[Palazzo Colonna]] Gallery, shown in the final scenes of the princess's press appearance
* [[National Museum of Oriental Art|Palazzo Brancaccio]], the princess' ornate Roman bedroom.

==Reception==
The film opened the [[14th Venice International Film Festival]] on August 20, 1953.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Venice Pix Fete Preems With Par Film; Redtape Irks U.S. Majors|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 26, 1953|last=Hawkins|first=R. F. |page=2|url=https://archive.org/details/variety191-1953-08/page/n195/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date=March 12, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> It opened at [[Radio City Music Hall]] in New York City on August 27, 1953,<ref name=AFI/> grossing $165,000 in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Heat Fails to Wilt B'Way Grosses|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 2, 1953|page=9|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety191-1953-09#page/n8/mode/1up|access-date=September 24, 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> The film also opened the same week in two theatres in Portland, Oregon, on a double bill with ''[[Murder Without Tears]]'', grossing $14,000.<ref>{{cite magazine |title='Holiday' Smash $14,000, Port.Ace |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=September 2, 1953 |page=8 |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety191-1953-09#page/n7/mode/1up |access-date=September 24, 2019 |via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

The film received critical acclaim from reviewers of its initial release.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Luban |first=Milton |date=August 27, 2019 |title='Roman Holiday': THR's 1953 Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/roman-holiday-review-movie-1953-2-1234508/ |access-date=March 4, 2025 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |quote=The critical acclaim and word-of-mouth praise that is bound to come should help make it a box office bonanza.}}</ref> Milton Luban of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' said the movie "proves a charming, laugh-provoking affair that often explodes into hilarity... it has a delightful screenplay that sparkles with wit and outrageous humor that at times comes close to slapstick" and that the "cinematographers do a fine job of incorporating Roman landmarks into the storyline".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/roman-holiday-review-movie-1953-1234508|title='Roman Holiday': THR's 1953 Review|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Miton|last=Luban|date=August 27, 2019|access-date= December 23, 2020|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025091454/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/roman-holiday-review-movie-1953-1234508|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' observed that it was "a natural, tender and amusing yarn" with "laughs that leave the spirits soaring".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/08/28/archives/roman-holiday-at-music-hall-is-modern-fairy-tale-starring-peck-and.html |title=' Roman Holiday' at Music Hall Is Modern Fairy Tale Starring Peck and Audrey Hepburn |first=A. |last=W |date=August 28, 1953 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-date=November 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106222056/https://www.nytimes.com/1953/08/28/archives/roman-holiday-at-music-hall-is-modern-fairy-tale-starring-peck-and.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

''Roman Holiday'' was the second most popular film at the US box office during September 1953 behind ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'', grossing almost $1 million.<ref>{{cite magazine| title=12 Biggest Pix Grossers in September Paced by 'Eternity' ('Robe' Excluded)| magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]| date=October 7, 1953| page=4| url=https://archive.org/stream/variety192-1953-10#page/n3/mode/1up| access-date=September 23, 2019| via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> It earned an estimated $3 million at the United States and Canadian box office during its first few months of release,<ref>{{cite magazine| title=Top Grossers of 1953| magazine=Variety| date=January 13, 1954}}</ref> and a total of $5 million.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Tony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8G7CEAAAQBAJ&dq=USIA+Hollywood+Eastern+Europe++television+1990s&pg=PA110 |title=Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds |last2=Youngblood |first2=Denise J. |date=2014-08-15 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-2020-3 |pages=108–110 |language=en}}</ref> While the domestic box office disappointed Paramount, it was very successful elsewhere, including the UK, where the film benefited from both the current [[Princess Margaret#Romance with Peter Townsend|romance between Princess Margaret and commoner Peter Townsend]]—"No film studio could have bought such publicity", [[Alexander Walker (critic)|Alexander Walker]] wrote—and a fad for Italian culture.<ref name="walker1997">{{cite book |last=Walker |first=Alexander |title=Audrey: Her Real Story |publisher=Macmillan |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-3121-8046-1 |pages=83–87 |chapter=8: Loves and Hates |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1b_sUYLROMC&q=townsend&pg=PA83 |access-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-date=September 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915022848/https://books.google.com/books?id=g1b_sUYLROMC&q=townsend&pg=PA83 |url-status=live }}</ref> It earned around $12 milion in the overseas market.<ref name=":0" />

Due to the film's popularity, both Peck and Hepburn were approached about filming a sequel, but this project never got off the ground.<ref name="TCM" />

The film has been well received, with a 95% rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 63 reviews with an average rating of 8.50/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "With Audrey Hepburn luminous in her American debut, ''Roman Holiday'' is as funny as it is beautiful, and sets the standard for the modern romantic comedy."<ref name=rt>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/roman_holiday |title=Roman Holiday (1953) |access-date= February 8, 2023 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |archive-date= June 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160624154120/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/roman_holiday |url-status=live}}</ref> It is considered a classic by twenty-first-century viewers and reviewers.<ref name=Berardinelli>{{cite web |last=Berardinelli |first=James |title=Roman Holiday |url=https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/roman-holiday |date=May 6, 2021|access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=Reelviews Movie Reviews |language=en}}</ref> [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' noted that the film is a "modern fairytale whose two leads have a charm and innocence that irradiate the whole movie", giving the film five out of five.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 18, 2013 |title=Roman Holiday review – charm and innocence by the bucketload |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/18/roman-holiday-review |access-date=October 9, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |location=London |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' concluded that the film is a "timeless, exuberant classic, with Hepburn's naïve sense of fun and perfectly charming performance matched equally by Peck's louche and charismatic worldy American".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roman Holiday |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/roman-holiday-review/ |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=Empire|date=January 2005 }}</ref> James Berardinelli of [[James Berardinelli|ReelViews]] gave the film three and a half stars out of four, calling the movie a "staple of the romantic comedy fan's library", and "remains one of only a few black-and-white movies that modern audiences willingly watch".<ref name=Berardinelli />

The film was very popular outside of the United States.<ref name=":0" /> As late as of 1990, it was cited as the favorite foreign film of all time for Japanese audiences.<ref name=":0" />

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''Roman Holiday'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="10"| [[26th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]]
| rowspan="2"| [[William Wyler]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="10"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=May 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093858/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> <br> <ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/41976/Roman-Holiday/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229051300/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/41976/Roman-Holiday/details |archive-date=December 29, 2007 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2007 |title=NY Times: Roman Holiday |access-date=December 21, 2008}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Audrey Hepburn]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Eddie Albert]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| [[Ian McLellan Hunter]] and [[John Dighton]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Story|Best Story]]
| [[Dalton Trumbo]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Black-and-White]]
| [[Hal Pereira]] and [[Walter H. Tyler]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-White]]
| [[Franz Planer]] and [[Henri Alekan]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design – Black-and-White]]
| [[Edith Head]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Robert Swink]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Bambi Award]]s
| Best Actor – International
| [[Gregory Peck]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 
|-
| Best Actress – International
| Audrey Hepburn
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[7th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1954/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1954 |publisher=[[British Academy Film Awards]] |access-date=November 30, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
| Eddie Albert
| {{nom}}
|-
| Gregory Peck
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best British Actress]]
| Audrey Hepburn
| {{won}}
|-
| [[6th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| William Wyler
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1953.aspx?value=1953 |title=6th Annual DGA Awards |publisher=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[11th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Audrey Hepburn
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/roman-holiday/ |title=Roman Holiday |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=November 30, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[Huabiao Awards|Huabiao Film Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Outstanding Translated Foreign Film
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[National Board of Review Awards 1953|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{draw|6th Place}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1953/ |title=1953 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=November 27, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mubi.com/awards-and-festivals/nyfccas?year=1953 |title=1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |publisher=[[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]] |access-date=November 30, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Audrey Hepburn
| {{won}}
|-
| [[14th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| William Wyler
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[6th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy|Best Written American Comedy]]
| Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo, and John Dighton
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |publisher=[[Writers Guild of America Awards]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |access-date=June 6, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

* The [[Academy Award for Best Story]] was initially given to [[Ian McLellan Hunter]], since he took story credit on behalf of [[Dalton Trumbo]] (who was [[Hollywood Blacklist|blacklisted]]). The [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] later credited the win to Trumbo, and in 1993 Trumbo's widow, Cleo, received her late husband's Oscar.<ref>{{cite news |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |title=Christopher Trumbo dies at 70; screen and TV writer whose father was blacklisted |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-christopher-trumbo-20110112-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2011-01-12 |access-date=January 26, 2011 |archive-date=January 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119114217/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/12/local/la-me-christopher-trumbo-20110112 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 1999, ''Roman Holiday'' was selected for preservation in the [[United States]] [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
* The [[American Film Institute]] lists the film at No. 4 in its [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions]], and at No. 4 in the romantic comedy category in its [[AFI's 10 Top 10]].

==Adaptations==
A number of films were later claimed to be based on ''Roman Holiday'', or likened to it. They include
the [[Malayalam (language)|Malayalam]] ''[[Kilukkam]]'' (1991),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/photo-features/mollywood-movies-that-ran-for-more-than-300-days/photostory/49802155.cms |title=Mollywood movies that ran for more than 300 days |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |location=[[Mumbai]] |access-date=October 15, 2021 |archive-date=October 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030084158/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/photo-features/mollywood-movies-that-ran-for-more-than-300-days/photostory/49802155.cms |url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Tamil language|Tamil-language]] ''[[May Madham]]'' (1994),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vikatan.com/timepassvikatan/2016-mar-19/cinema/116914-sutta-padam-roman-holiday-%E2%80%98may-madham.art |title=சுட்ட படம் |trans-title=Stolen film |work=[[Ananda Vikatan]] |date=19 March 2016 |access-date= January 5, 2017 |language=ta |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105113430/http://www.vikatan.com/timepassvikatan/2016-mar-19/cinema/116914-sutta-padam-roman-holiday-%E2%80%98may-madham.art |archive-date= January 5, 2017| url-access=subscription}}</ref> and ''[[Notting Hill (film)|Notting Hill]]'' (1999) - which a review described as "a 90's London-set version of ''Roman Holiday''"<ref>Derek Elley (30 April 1999). [https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/notting-hill-1200457114 "Notting Hill"]. ''Variety''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129113217/https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/notting-hill-1200457114/ |date=November 29, 2020}}</ref>

When [[Lewis Gilbert]] was making ''[[The Adventurers (1970 film)|The Adventurers]]'' for Paramount, he said Charles Bludhorn, whose company owned the studio, wanted the director to make a musical remake of ''Roman Holiday'' with songs by the Sherman Brothers. Gilbert agreed but said Paramount then got "cold feet" and the film was cancelled. The director went on to make ''[[Seven Nights in Japan]]'' (1976), which was in the style of ''Roman Holiday''.<ref>{{cite web|website=British Entertainment History Project|title=Interview with Lewis Gilbert Side 13|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/lewis-gilbert|year=1996}}</ref> Paramount Pictures has since licensed three musical adaptations of ''Roman Holiday'': [[Toho]]'s Japanese version of 1998;<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.playbill.com/article/musical-adaptation-of-roman-holiday-coming-to-tokyo-oct-98-com-72577| title=Musical Adaptation of Roman Holiday Coming to Tokyo Oct. '98 |magazine=Playbill |date=December 22, 1997| access-date= September 18, 2015 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308023121/https://www.playbill.com/news/article/musical-adaptation-of-roman-holiday-coming-to-tokyo-oct.-98-72577#sthash.9ldurMGL.dpuf |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Teatro Sistina]]'s ''Vacanze romane'' (2004), using the Cole Porter score, supplemented with music by [[Armando Trovajoli]], which has since toured Italy and Spain;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilsistina.it/event/vacanze-romane/ |title=VACANZE ROMANE dal 21 ottobre |access-date=September 18, 2015 |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507063819/http://www.ilsistina.it/event/vacanze-romane/ |website=L'Accademia Sistina}}</ref> and the American [[Roman Holiday (musical)|stage version]] of 2012, described as a [[jukebox musical]] using the songs of [[Cole Porter]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guthrietheater.org/plays_events/plays/roman_holiday |title=Roman Holiday |access-date=June 24, 2012 |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415010737/http://www.guthrietheater.org/plays_events/plays/roman_holiday |website=Guthrie Theater |url-status=live}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links ==
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* {{Metacritic film|title=Roman Holiday}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|roman_holiday|Roman Holiday}}

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