Vanity Fair is a 2004 English-language Drama film written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Mira Nair and produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Janette Day under the banner of Granada Productions. The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. Written by. Vanity fair stars Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Bob Hoskins and Gary Bunn. The screenplay is written by Julian Fellowes, Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet which is inspired from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. The music was composed by Mychael Danna. Cinematography was done by Declan Quinn and editing by Allyson C. Johnson and Nishikesh Mehra. The movie has a running time of 141 minutes. It was released on 1st September 2004. Vanity Fair was made on a budget of $23 million and at the box office it grossed only $19 million. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Focus Features.