With Great Expectations, the trio repeated their earlier triumph with Brief Encounter and were nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
Guy Green, the director of photography on Great Expectations, won the Oscar for cinematography in black and white.
Green would shoot all the remaining Cineguild productions, including Oliver Twist, though future Oscar-winner Geoffrey Unsworth was tasked with filming the exteriors on Blanche Fury (1948), which was directed by Marc Allégret.
After producing Blanche Fury and Oliver Twist, both of which were released in 1948, Havelock-Allan left Cineguild for Constellation Films, which he founded in 1947.
Oliver Twist was hurt financially when it was subjected to boycotts in Germany and the United States for perceived anti-semitism.
The make-up of Alec Guinness, who portrayed Fagin, was based on George Cruikshank's original illustrations for the Dickens novel, and it was considered anti-semitic by some as it was felt to perpetrate Jewish racial stereotypes.
[2] Guinness wore heavy make-up, including a large prosthetic nose, to evoke Cruikshank's illustrations.
[6] As a result of objections by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the New York Board of Rabbis, the film was not released in the United States until 1951, with seven minutes of profile shots and other parts of Guinness's performance cut.