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).Film and TV Charity: Our history The events 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 UK premiere of Top Gun: Maverick at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on 19 May 2022. The event was attended by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
There was no event in 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. The next event is planned for 2024, which is also the centenary of The Film and Television Charity.
==History of events==
Year	Title
2024	TBC
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
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