Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Film

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Africa

Egypt – November 16, 2016
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Asia

Cambodia – November 18, 2016
China – November 25, 2016
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Austria – November 18, 2016
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North America

Canada (Toronto World Premiere) – November 8, 2016
Canada – November 18, 2016
Mexico – November 18, 2016
Panama – November 17, 2016
Puerto Rico – November 17, 2016
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Australia – November 17, 2016
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"Fantastic Beasts Review: It Will Keep You Coming Back for More" – By David Blaustein | ABC News | November 18, 2016, 9:25 a.m. ET

"Fantastic Beasts Charts a New Path Through a Familiar World" – By Christopher Orr | The Atlantic | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" – By Josh Kupecki | The Austin Chronicle | November 18, 2016

"The Harry Potter Prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Can’t Find Itself" – By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | A.V. Club | November 17, 2016

"Film Review: Is Fantastic Beasts a Rowling Triumph?" – By Nicholas Barber | BBC | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts Effectively Expands the J.K. Rowling Universe" – By Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times | November 15, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts' Review: Eddie Redmayne and Company Make Magic in Potter Prequel" – By Michael Phillips | The Chicago Tribune | November 15, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review: You’re a Wizard, J.K. Rowling" – By Matt Goldberg | Collider | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" – By Common Sense Media

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review: The Wizarding World Maintains the Magic" – By Rosie Fletcher | Digital Spy | November 18, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review" – By Helen O'hara | Empire | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review – J.K. Rowling Goes Steampunk" – By Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian | November 12, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Film Review" – By John DeFore | The Hollywood Reporter | November 12, 2016

"Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts. Beyond Spectacular! Magic Sparkles Plenty" – By Carole Mallory | The Huffington Post | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review: A Mightily Impressive New J.K. Rowling Adaptation" – By Geoffrey McNab | Independent | November 14, 2016

"Harry Potter Prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Casts a Faltering Spell" – By Justin Chang | Los Angeles Times | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Conjures up that Old Harry Potter Magic: Movie Review" – By Joe Dziemianowicz | New York Daily News | November 12, 2016

"Review: ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Unleashes J.K. Rowling’s Magic on Old New York" – By Manohla Dargis | The New York Times | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' Review: Potter Prequel Gets Political" – By Peter Travers | Rolling Stone | November 15, 2016

"Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts a Crowd-Pleasing Potter Prequel" – By Peter Hartlaub | SFGate | November 16, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review: J.K. Rowling's Spectacular Feat of World-Building" – By Robbie Collin | The Telegraph | November 13, 2016

"Review: Fantastic Beasts Is Sometimes Charming but Hardly Fantastic" – By Stephanie Zacharek | Time | November 15, 2016

"Review: 'Fantastic Beasts' Is an Enchanting 'Potter' Spinoff" – By Brian Truitt | USA Today | November 19, 2016

"There’s Dark Magic in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" – By Richard Lawson | Vanity Fair | November 16, 2016

"Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" – By Peter Debruge | Variety | November 12, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review: In Search of Monsters" – By Joe Morgenstern | The Wall Street Journal | November 17, 2016

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Hits the Harry Potter Reset Button" – By Michael O'Sullivan | The Washington Post | November 17, 2016

Awards Won

Academy Awards

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards

Best Production Design
Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock

Empire Awards, UK

Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne

Best Costume Design
Warner Bros.

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling
Warner Bros.

Best Production Design
Warner Bros.

Evening Standard British Film Awards

Editor's Award

Golden Camera, Germany

Best International Actor
Colin Farrell

Online Film & Television Association

Best Production Design
Stuart Craig
James Hambidge
Anna Pinnock

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

People's Choice Awards

Favorite Year End Blockbuster

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

St. Louis Film Critics Association

2nd Place: Best Art Direction
Stuart Craig
James Hambidge
Anna Pinnock
(tied with Jackie and La La Land)

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Nominations

Academy Awards

Best Achievement in Production Design
Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

Best Screenwriter
J.K. Rowling

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films

Best Fantasy Film

Best Make-Up
Nicky Knowles

Best Music
James Newton Howard

Best Production Design
Stuart Craig

Best Special Effects
Tim Burke, Christian Manz, David Watkins

Best Supporting Actor
Dan Fogler

Art Directors Guild Awards

Excellence in Production Design: Fantasy Feature Film
Stuart Craig

Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Awards

Excellence in Sound for a Feature Film
Simon Hayes, Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Andy Nelson, Niv Adiri

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

Best Sound
Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Ian Tapp

Best Special Visual Effects
Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins

Outstanding British Film of the Year
David Yates, J.K. Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

Best Hair & Makeup

Best Production Design
Stuart Craig
James Hambidge
Anna Pinnock

Best Visual Effects

Casting Society of America

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Big Budget Feature - Drama
Jim Carnahan
Fiona Weir

Costume Designers Guild Awards

Excellence in Fantasy Film
Colleen Atwood

Empire Awards, UK

Best British Film
Warner Bros.

Best Visual Effects
Warner Bros.

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Art Direction/Production Design
Stuart Craig
James Hambidge
Anna Pinnock

Best Visual Effects

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling - Feature-Length Motion Picture
Fae Hammond
Marilyn MacDonald

Best Period and/or Character Makeup - Feature-Length Motion Picture
Fae Hammond
Marilyn MacDonald

Best Special Makeup Effects - Feature-Length Motion Picture
Fae Hammond

International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards

Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film
James Newton Howard

Film Score of the Year
James Newton Howard

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

Best Art Direction
Stuart Craig
James Hambidge
Anna Pinnock

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood

Best Visual Effects

Online Film & Television Association

Best Visual Effects
Tim Burke
Pablo Grillo
Christian Manz
David Watkins

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

Best Production Design
Stuart Craig
James Hambidge

Publicists Guild of America

Maxwell Weinberg Award
Warner Bros.

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards

Best Movie

Teen Choice Awards

Choice AnTEENcipated Movie

Choice Fantasy Movie

Choice Fantasy Movie Actor
Eddie Redmayne

Choice Fantasy Movie Actress
Katherine Waterston

Visual Effects Society Awards

Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature
(For the Niffler)
Luc Girard
Laurent Laban
Romain Rico
Gabriel Tremblay-Beauvais

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode or Real-Time Project
(For the Graphorn)
Michael Cable
John Montefusco
Andrew Rowan-Robinson
Shayne Ryan

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Tim Burke
Pablo Grillo
Christian Manz
David Watkins
Olly Young

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project
(For "Virtual Reality")
Karen Czukerberg
John Montefusco
Resh Sidhu
Corrina Wilson

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

Best Production Design
Stuart Craig
Anna Pinnock

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• The film is set in 1926.
• Jacob Kowalski is the first non-magical main character in the Wizarding World franchise.
• "Kowalski" in Polish roughly translates to "average joe" and is a very common last name in Poland.
• All the lead actors were able to choose and design their own wands.
• The thunderbird is the only Ilvermorny House namesake to appear in the film.
• Faith Wood-Blagrove made her film debut as Modesty Barebone, an orphaned No-Maj.
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the first film in the Wizarding World franchise to win an Academy Award.

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When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone…

- Synopsis

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an original screenplay written by J.K. Rowling herself. It was Rowling's screenwriting debut and was published on November 18, 2016, the same day as the film's release. The cover is illustrated by the franchise's graphic design duo, MinaLima.