United Kingdom
- In the UK, the BBFC decide the rating that certain films get for the content in which they produces.
- This organisation is an independent, non-government run organisation. This means that the government can have no say on what the BBFC decide on a film.
- Britain has been censoring films since 1913
- The council can rule over a decision made on a film by the BBFC. However, this type of event occurring is seriously rare and barely ever happens.
- This is a non-profit organisation that is funded by the film industry.
- Unlike Britain, the US had to wait a lot longer had 1913 before anybody started to regulate films. It wasn’t until 1968 that there was any sort of rating system in place, and the way they rated things were well behind Britain.
- The US rating system is entirely voluntary – no film maker is actually forced to go through the rating system, they can publish movies without going through the process.
- Despite this, most of the film makers go and apply for formal rating as US chains and cinemas are usually reluctant to show and sell and unrated film as nobody knows what it could consist of
- This is unlike the UK rating system as any American producer could skip straight passed the rating process and go straight to market sales, where as in the UK, you cannot do that.
- Like the UK rating system, the US system is not associated with any form of government.