Oscar-winning British whodunit that impressed Downton Abbey is on TV tonight | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Julian Fellowes is greatest identified for creating the extremely widespread upstairs-downstairs interval TV sequence Downton Abbey, which spawned a trilogy of movement footage.

But a couple of years earlier than the present debuted on ITV, he received the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Gosford Park.

Inspired by Jean Renoir’s French movie The Rules of the Game, the story follows a bunch of Thirties rich Brits and their servants on a capturing weekend at an English nation home, when a homicide happens.

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, together with Best Picture, Gosford Park boasts a powerful all-star ensemble forged.

The movie contains Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Charles Dance, Tom Hollander, Laurence Fox, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, Emily Watson, Derek Jacobi, Richard E Grant and Stephen Fry because the Inspector. Originally, Downton Abbey was set to be a spin-off of Gosford Park, earlier than it turned a standalone sequence set earlier, ranging from 1912.

Gosford Park airs on BBC Two at 10pm tonight and might be accessible to stream on BBC iPlayer for a restricted time afterwards.