Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson.

Lucinda's parents die when she is young, and she becomes a wealthy heiress after her guardians sell off the vast farmland that was her family's home.

Inspired by a model of a glass church that she shows him, he asks her to make a lifesize replica to ship to their mutual friend the Revered Dennis Hasset.

However, after several years they could not come up with a script anyone was happy with; Schlesinger dropped out, Armstrong became involved and she brought in Laura Jones to write the screenplay.

Cinematography was by Geoffrey Simpson; Nicholas Beaumont edited the film; and Luciana Arrighi was production designer.

[4] The soundtrack was released by CBS Masterworks Records on 9 December 1997 in Australia and the United States, performed by Newman and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz.

[5][6] The music from the track “Sydney Harbor” would eventually appear in a teaser trailer for Wall-E, another movie that Thomas Newman conducted the score for.

All music is composed by Thomas NewmanOscar and Lucinda grossed $1,768,946 at the box office in Australia,[7] which is equivalent to $2,458,835 in 2009 dollars.

[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.