Arthur Christmas
Ever wonder how 2 Billion presents get delivered all in 1 night?
2011 | 97m | English
Popularity: 5 (history)
| Director: | Sarah Smith, Barry Cook |
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| Writer: | Sarah Smith, Peter Baynham |
| Staring: |
| For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 10, 2011 |
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| Director: | Sarah Smith, Barry Cook |
| Writer: | Sarah Smith, Peter Baynham |
| Genres: | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama |
| Keywords | holiday, elves, santa claus, assistant, sleigh, wish, reindeer, family, north pole, high tech, clumsiness, duringcreditsstinger, letter to santa claus, woman director, christmas, father son relationship, brother brother relationship |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures, Aardman, Sony Pictures Animation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $151,300,000
Budget: $10,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| James McAvoy | Arthur (voice) |
| Hugh Laurie | Steve (voice) |
| Bill Nighy | Grandsanta (voice) |
| Jim Broadbent | Santa (voice) |
| Imelda Staunton | Mrs Santa (voice) |
| Ashley Jensen | Bryony (voice) |
| Marc Wootton | Peter (voice) |
| Laura Linney | North Pole Computer (voice) |
| Eva Longoria | Chief De Silva (voice) |
| Ramona Marquez | Gwen (voice) |
| Michael Palin | Ernie Clicker (voice) |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Robbie Coltrane | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Joan Cusack | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Rhys Darby | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Jane Horrocks | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Iain McKee | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Andy Serkis | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Dominic West | Lead Elf (voice) |
| Peter Baynham | Elf (voice) |
| Cody Cameron | Elf (voice) |
| Kevin Cecil | Elf (voice) |
| Kevin Eldon | Elf (voice) |
| Rich Fulcher | Elf (voice) |
| Bronagh Gallagher | Elf (voice) |
| Pete Jack | Elf (voice) |
| Danny John-Jules | Elf (voice) |
| Emma Kennedy | Elf (voice) |
| Stewart Lee | Elf (voice) |
| Seamus Malone | Elf (voice) |
| Kris Pearn | Elf (voice) |
| Alan Short | Elf (voice) |
| Sarah Smith | Elf (voice) |
| Adam Tandy | Elf (voice) |
| Ryan Patrick Donahoe | Pedro (voice) |
| Finlay Duff | French Boy (voice) |
| Rich Hall | Idaho Man (voice) |
| Clint Dyer | Reporter (voice) |
| Donnie Long | Reporter (voice) |
| Jerry Lambert | N.O.R.A.D (voice) |
| Deborah Findlay | General (voice) |
| David Schneider | General (voice) |
| Ian Ashpitel | UNFITA OPS (voice) |
| Julia Davis | UNFITA OPS (voice) |
| Kerry Shale | UNFITA OPS (voice) |
| Tamsin Greig | Additional Voices (voice) |
| Alistair McGowan | Additional Voices (voice) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Mike Prestwood Smith | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Arthur Graley | Foley Editor |
| Sarah Smith | Screenplay, Director |
| Peter Baynham | Screenplay |
| Sarah Crowe | Casting |
| Jericca Cleland | Cinematography |
| Kris Pearn | Storyboard Designer |
| Henrik Tamm | Visual Development |
| Peter Burgis | Foley |
| Michelle Dean | Hair Setup, Cloth Setup |
| Till Nowak | Visual Development |
| Harry Gregson-Williams | Original Music Composer |
| George Hull | Visual Development |
| Troy Quane | Storyboard Designer, Storyboard Artist |
| Osnat Shurer | Consulting Producer |
| Theresa Bentz | Production Manager |
| Mark Anthony Austin | Animation |
| Shaofu Zhang | Animation |
| Luis Grané | Character Designer |
| Martin Tillman | Musician |
| Patrick Malone | Digital Intermediate |
| Chris Bacon | Additional Soundtrack |
| Becky Bentham | Music Supervisor |
| David Buckley | Additional Soundtrack |
| Barry Cook | Co-Director |
| Hiroshi Mori | Visual Effects |
| Dan Haring | Lighting Artist, Lighting Director |
| Joel Foster | Animation |
| Chrissy Callahan | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| James Cooper | Editor |
| Doug Cooper | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Ben Meechan | Sound Effects Editor |
| Ryan Gilleland | Production Manager |
| Victoria Mowlam | Assistant Production Manager |
| Michael Solinger | Post-Production Manager |
| Tim Browning | Visual Effects Designer |
| Gregory Fangeaux | Set Designer |
| Michael Kurinsky | Key Animation |
| Dafydd Archard | Sound Mixer |
| Mark Appleby | Sound Mixer |
| David Mackie | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Keith Partridge | Foley |
| Julian Slater | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Jason Swanscott | Foley |
| Chad Belteau | Rigging Gaffer, Lighting Artist |
| Brian Blasiak | Lighting Director |
| Mark DeSousa | Hair Supervisor, Cloth Setup |
| Sue Houston Safianoff | Animation |
| Evgeni Tomov | Production Design |
| Simon Ellegaard | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| James Boyle | Sound Designer |
| Zak Melemendjian | Dialogue Editor |
| Olivier Adam | Art Direction |
| Stephen Nixon | Assistant Production Manager |
| Bjorn-Erik Aschim | Visual Development |
| Oliver Carroll | Draughtsman |
| Buck Lewis | Character Designer |
| Jean-Paul Vermeulen | Storyboard Designer |
| Martim Crawford | Dialogue Editor |
| Peter Gleaves | Sound Mixer |
| Andrea King | Foley |
| Dan Morgan | Supervising ADR Editor, Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Kevin Penney | Sound Effects Editor |
| Barnaby Smyth | Foley |
| Hunter Athey | Animation |
| Rob Bredow | Chief Technician / Stop-Motion Expert |
| Kent Estep | Digital Compositors |
| Anthony Di Ninno | 3D Tracking Layout, Layout |
| Daniele Zannone | Animation |
| Jennifer Avery | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| John Carnochan | Editor |
| Yves Barre | Costume Design |
| Joseph Stracey | Sound Effects Editor |
| Timothy Loughran | Animation Production Assistant, Assistant Production Manager |
| Jordan Soles | Production Manager |
| Paul Bolger | Storyboard Designer, Storyboard Artist |
| Sergio Casas | Color Designer |
| Jess Jackson | Storyboard Designer, Storyboard Artist |
| Armand Serrano | Visual Development |
| Tim Watts | Character Designer, Animation, Art Direction |
| Nick Del-Molino | Sound Mixer |
| Howard London | Sound Mixer |
| Johnathan Rush | Sound Mixer |
| Andrew Stirk | Dialogue Editor |
| Laurent Ben-Mimoun | Visual Development |
| Rahul Dabholkar | Lead Animator |
| Gregory Galliani | Lead Character Designer |
| Doug Ikeler | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Daniel Kruse | Lighting Director |
| Stuart Mintz | Visual Effects |
| Mandy Tankenson | Digital Producer |
| Shad Bradbury | Animation |
| Benoit Bargeton | Animation |
| Boris Hiestand | Supervising Animator |
| Aaron Jonas | Animation |
| Christophe Lourdelet | Character Designer |
| Philip Rudolph | Animation |
| Alexander Snow | Animation |
| Alastair Grimshaw | Visual Effects Editor |
| Noriaki Kaneko | Motion Capture Artist |
| Roger Liu | Visual Effects |
| Aaron Pfau | Animation |
| Corey Turner | Stereoscopic Coordinator |
| Stéphane Couture | Animation |
| Robert Fox | Animation |
| Eric R. Huang | Animation |
| Stefan Klauss | Animation |
| Seamus Malone | Supervising Animator |
| Alan Short | Supervising Animator |
| Carolyn Vale | Animation |
| Tom Doggart | Assistant Editor |
| Kevin Kitchel | Visual Effects Technical Director |
| David B. Menkes | Lighting Director |
| Eric Provan | Animation |
| Terry Ziegelman | Lighting Director |
| Ethan Hurd | Animation |
| Patrick Rossano | Animation |
| Craig Simpson | 3D Tracking Layout |
| Roger Vizard | Animation |
| Abigail Barbier | ADR Voice Casting |
| Rob Farris | Digital Intermediate |
| Laurent Treherne | Technical Supervisor |
| Mark Berrow | Musician |
| Halli Cauthery | Additional Soundtrack |
| Jennifer Hammond | Orchestrator |
| Steve Mair | Musician |
| Peter DeSève | Character Designer |
| Adam Horley | ADR Recordist |
| Lisa Curtis Saunders | Software Engineer |
| Louis Elman | ADR Voice Casting |
| Peter Boyer | Orchestrator |
| Peter Cobbin | Scoring Mixer |
| Robert Houston | Music Editor |
| Ladd McIntosh | Orchestrator |
| Kirsty Whalley | Music Editor |
| Matt Jones | Storyboard Artist |
| Simon Diggins | ADR Recordist |
| Alexei Nechytaylo | Art Direction |
| Gregory F. Plotts | Assistant Editor |
| Meri Gavin | Music Editor |
| Tony Lewis | Music Editor |
| Geoff Stradling | Orchestrator |
| Bruce White | Musician |
| David Peacock | ADR Recordist |
| Alex McDowell | Visual Effects Design Consultant |
| Donnie Long | Head of Story |
| David Morehead | Head of Layout |
| Will Mata | Storyboard Artist |
| Adam Cootes | Storyboard Artist |
| Helen Schroeder | Storyboard Artist |
| Jack Hsu | Storyboard Artist |
| Iain McKee | Additional Writing |
| David Schneider | Additional Writing |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Peter Baynham | Co-Executive Producer |
| Peter Lord | Producer |
| David Sproxton | Producer |
| Carla Shelley | Producer |
| Chris Juen | Co-Producer |
| Michael Killoren | Associate Producer |
| Steve Pegram | Producer |
| Cheryl Abood | Co-Executive Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 31 | 46 | 20 |
| 2024 | 5 | 42 | 77 | 23 |
| 2024 | 6 | 29 | 77 | 15 |
| 2024 | 7 | 38 | 79 | 16 |
| 2024 | 8 | 22 | 40 | 13 |
| 2024 | 9 | 16 | 20 | 13 |
| 2024 | 10 | 24 | 55 | 12 |
| 2024 | 11 | 40 | 75 | 22 |
| 2024 | 12 | 65 | 107 | 41 |
| 2025 | 1 | 32 | 60 | 19 |
| 2025 | 2 | 17 | 31 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
Trending Position
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| 2025 | 6 | 819 | 819 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 69 | 379 |
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| 2024 | 11 | 285 | 727 |
A good watch. I had a fine time watching <em>'Arthur Christmas'</em>. The plot is a little light, with a fairly simple event taking a relative while to resolve itself, but it's still a pleasant festive animated film - with neat animation. There are a number of familiar names on the voice cast, ... too many to name in actual fact. My personal standout is Hugh Laurie as Steven, though James McAvoy, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are all enjoyable too.
It is actually quite hard to find innovative ways to tell Santa stories now, but this one does do quite well on that score. It all centres on Santa's now almost entirely automated delivery process using a sleigh clearly inspired by the starship "Enterprise". Horror of horrors, though, when the young ... est member of the Claus family - the eponymous "Arthur" - discovers that one young girl isn't going to get her expertly wrapped bicycle! His dad "Steve" is content to put it down to a technical glitch, and his grandad (the sitting Santa) is too tired to bother, too. It falls to "Grand Santa", "Arthur" and his old fairy-dust powered, reindeer-pulled, sled to get the bike to the little "Gwen" before the sun comes up on Christmas morning. What now ensues are a series of fun escapades as the old man (he rather reminded me of Wilfred Bramble's "Steptoe" character) and his enthusiastic young dreamer have to navigate the world - at high speed - and find a small Cornish village that shares it's name with one or two other places around the world, whilst avoiding the authorities who are rapidly concluding that space aliens are on the loose. A solid and entertaining voice cast - especially Bill Nighy and James McAvoy as our intrepid delivery boys deliver an entertainingly paced script well, with some enjoyably crafted animation and a suitably jolly score from Harry Gregson-Williams. It's fun, this - and offers plenty for younger and older alike.