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Goldcrest Films is a British film production company founded by Jake Eberts. It enjoyed great success in the 1980s with films such as Local Hero
(1983), The Killing Fields (1984) and Hope and Glory
(1987) mostly produced by David Puttnam on modest budgets. The company won two Academy Awards for Best Picture, for Chariots of Fire
in 1981 and Gandhi in 1982. After these initial successes the company backed more expensive productions with established Hollywood stars that often ran over schedule and budget culminating in The Mission (1986), Revolution
and Absolute Beginners that all turned out to be a major box office flops.

The company was also involved in television production, including the popular series Robin of Sherwood.

The companies history is detailed in Eberts' book My Indecision is Final: The Rise and Fall of Goldcrest.

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