Powell and Pressburger

Powell and Pressburger
The Archers
Industry	Film production company
Founded	1939 ; 1943 (as "The Archers")
Defunct	1957
Fate	Partnership amicably ended
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Key people	Michael Powell ; Emeric Pressburger
Products	The Spy in Black (1939); Contraband (1940); 49th Parallel (1941); One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942); The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); A Canterbury Tale (1944); I Know Where I'm Going! (1945); A Matter of Life and Death (1946); Black Narcissus (1947); The Red Shoes (1948); The Small Back Room (1949); The Elusive Pimpernel (1950); Gone to Earth (1950); The Tales of Hoffmann (1951); Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955); The Battle of the River Plate (1956); Ill Met by Moonlight (1957);

The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. Their collaborations—24 films between 1939 and 1972—were mainly derived from original stories by Pressburger with the script written by both Pressburger and Powell. Powell did most of the directing while Pressburger did most of the work of the producer and also assisted with the editing, especially the way the music was used. Unusually, the pair shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films. The best-known of these are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

In 1981, Powell and Pressburger were recognised for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.