Strongly Recommended. A Room With A View was the first collaboration by director James Ivory (Call Me By Your Name), producer Ismael Merchant (The Remains Of The Day), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Howard's End) to gain a Best Picture Oscar nomination. It also premiered Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech) as Lucy Honeychurch . . . the titular view supplied by the city of Florence. Lucy is betrothed to a priggish fellow back in Surrey, played by an untypically cast Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln) and - - in line with EM Forester's (A Passage to India) novel - - sights a new swain in Italy. Scatttered throughout are wonderful performances by Judi Dench (Belfast), Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Denhold Elliot (Raiders Of The Lost Ark), and the late Julian Sands (Warlock) as Lucy's more warranted love. Well-deserved Oscars went to Jhabvala, the art and set decoration team, and Jenny Bevan (Gosford Park) for her costumes.