# Royal Film Performance

The Royal Film Performance is a trademarked event owned by The Film and Television Charity, formerly known as the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund CTBF (from 1964 to 2017) and previously the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund (from its inception in 1924). The event showcases a major film premiere and is attended by members of the British Royal Family. The proceeds from the event help the charity to offer financial support to people from the film, TV and cinema industries.
The event began in 1946, as the Royal Command Film Performance, with a screening of A Matter of Life and Death. The charity first received Royal Patronage in 1936, and so the idea of a Royal screening was born. The original date of the first event was 18 October 1939 and it was to be called the Royal Cine-Variety Performance, but it was postponed due to the outbreak of World War II.
The "Royal Command" name was changed from 1949, to Royal Film Performance, on the basis that the choice of film was that of the CTBF rather than the Royal Family. There was no performance between 2015 and 2019 while the CTBF was reformed as The Film and Television Charity. There was no event in 2020 or 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The most recent Royal Film Performance was the global premiere of Ridley Scott's Gladiator II at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on 13 November 2024. The event was attended by His Majesty King Charles III. Queen Camilla planned to attend with the King but ultimately cancelled due to a chest infection.

## History of events

| Year | Title |
| 2024 | Gladiator II |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick |
| 2019 | 1917 |
| 2015 | Spectre |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel |
| 2013 | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey |
| 2011 | Hugo |
| 2010 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
| 2009 | The Lovely Bones |
| 2008 | A Bunch of Amateurs |
| 2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl |
| 2006 | Casino Royale |
| 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| 2004 | Ladies in Lavender |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 2002 | Die Another Day |
| 2001 | Ali |
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace |
| 1998 | The Parent Trap |
| 1997 | Titanic |
| 1996 | True Blue |
| 1995 | French Kiss |
| 1994 | Miracle on 34th Street |
| 1993 | The Man Without a Face |
| 1992 | Chaplin |
| 1991 | Hot Shots! |
| 1990 | Always |
| 1989 | Madame Sousatzka |
| 1988 | Empire of the Sun |
| 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road |
| 1986 | White Nights |
| 1985 | A Passage to India |
| 1984 | The Dresser |
| 1983 | Table for Five |
| 1982 | Evil Under the Sun |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire |
| 1980 | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| 1979 | California Suite |
| 1978 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| 1977 | Silver Streak |
| 1976 | The Slipper and the Rose |
| 1975 | Funny Lady |
| 1974 | The Three Musketeers |
| 1973 | Lost Horizon |
| 1972 | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 1971 | Love Story |
| 1970 | Anne of the Thousand Days |
| 1969 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| 1968 | Romeo and Juliet |
| 1967 | The Taming of the Shrew |
| 1966 | Born Free |
| 1965 | Lord Jim |
| 1964 | Move Over, Darling |
| 1963 | Sammy Going South |
| 1962 | West Side Story |
| 1961 | The Facts of Life |
| 1960 | The Last Angry Man |
| 1959 | The Horse's Mouth |
| 1957 | Les Girls |
| 1956 | The Battle of the River Plate |
| 1955 | To Catch a Thief |
| 1954 | Beau Brummell |
| 1953 | Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue |
| 1952 | Because You're Mine |
| 1951 | Where No Vultures Fly |
| 1950 | The Mudlark |
| 1949 | The Forsyte Saga |
| 1948 | Scott of the Antarctic |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife |
| 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death |