Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom achieved its first success of the film awards season, winning the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song - 'Ordinary Love' composed by Irish super band, U2.
Read MoreMandela: Long Walk To Freedom opened in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Friday, 3 January 2014 on over 500 screens and is expected to gross over £1.5 million (R26 million) in its first three days of release. It is also expected to be one of the Top 10 performers at the UK box office this weekend.
Read MoreFollowing on the release of Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom in South Africa, the film has now been released in the United States, Canada and French and Dutch speaking countries in Europe as well as the Middle East, with critics lauding the film.
Read MoreMandela: Long Walk To Freedom received two nominations at the 34th London Critics Circle Film Awards, it was announced yesterday. The film received two nominations for Naomie Harris: Supporting Actress Of The Year and British Actress Of The Year, both for her role as Winnie Mandela. The winners will be announced on 2 February 2014.
Read MoreIt takes a commanding actor to fill the shoes of the man most instrumental in ending institutionalized oppression in South Africa, and the charismatic Idris Elba proves equal to the task in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Directed by Justin Chadwick with perhaps an inhibiting sense of cultural responsibility but also with the emotional sweep that such a momentous life story demands, this is sumptuously produced epic-scale bio-drama stamped from the classic mold.
Read MoreMandela: Long Walk To Freedom - Official South African website for the Nelson Mandela Film.
