Capote (film)
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Capote is an Academy Award-winning 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal) on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. The film follows the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the autumn of 2004, and was released on 30 September2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's birthday.
Plot
The movie opens in Kansas with the discovery of the dead bodies of the four members of the Clutter family by a family friend. Truman Capote is a New York celebrity, especially for his work Breakfast at Tiffany's. Like the historical person, the film character has a high-pitched voice. While reading the Times, he is riveted by a story of the Clutters and calls William Shawn, then the editor of The New Yorker, to announce that he will personally document the tragedy.
He travels to Kansas with his childhood friend Harper Lee and sets about interviewing those involved with the victims, the Clutter family, with Lee as his go-between and interpreter of rural life. When the murderers are apprehended, Capote ingratiates himself with the wife of the town's sheriff and gains access to one of the suspects, Perry Smith, and Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Alvin Dewey. Capote spends the next five years writing his masterpiece, awaiting the outcome of the trials and appeals and the eventual punishment of Smith and his partner in crime, Dick Hickock. Capote has mixed feelings about the last appeal: It means that the case which absorbs his life drags on longer, and he cannot finish his book.
The last appeal is rejected and Smith and his partner are hanged. One of the two hangings is explicitly shown.
The movie showcases Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of the openly gay southern author with his weaknesses for fame, alcohol, and attention. Capote became an international figure upon the release of the book In Cold Blood, which he would publish after Smith and Hickock were executed. Hoffman portrays Capote's conflict between personal literary ambitions and trying to maintain his role as a confidant to Perry, one of the two condemned killers.
Scenes concerning The New Yorker and its editor William Shawn have been fictionalized; Shawn did not arrange for Capote to give a reading, travel with Capote to Kansas, or send a photographer there (The New Yorker didn't even publish photographs until after Shawn's departure in 1987).
Cast
- Philip Seymour Hoffman — Truman Capote
- Catherine Keener — Nelle Harper Lee
- Clifton Collins Jr. — Perry Smith
- Chris Cooper — Alvin Dewey
- Bruce Greenwood — Jack Dunphy
- Bob Balaban — William Shawn
- Amy Ryan — Marie Dewey
- Mark Pellegrino — Richard Hickock
- Allie Mickelson — Laura Kinney
- Marshall Bell — Warden Marshall Krutch
- Araby Lockhart — Dorothy Sanderson
- Robert Huculak — New York Reporter
- R.D. Reid — Roy Church
- Rob McLaughlin — Harold Nye
- Harry Nelken — Sheriff Walter Sanderson
Filming dates
25 October 2004 - 1 December 2004 ( 36 Days )As of June 2006, the film had amassed a U.S. box office gross of $28.8 million in America and $19 million in foreign ticket sales.
Awards
Acting Awards for Philip Seymour Hoffman
-->- 2006 Oscar for Best Actor in a Lead Role
- 2006 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama
- 2005 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Drama
- 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- 2005 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Critics' awards
- Broadcast Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Boston Society of Film Critics: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
- Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Most Promising Filmmaker - Bennett Miller,
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
- Independent Spirit Awards: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
- National Board of Review: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
- New York Film Critics Circle: Best First Film - Bennett Miller,
- Online Film Critics Society: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Southeastern Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Toronto Film Critics Association: Best First Feature - Bennett Miller, Best Performance, Male - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Supporting Performance, Female - Catherine Keener
Nominations
- 78th Academy Awards:
- *Best Picture
- *Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman - WON
- *Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
- *Best Director - Bennett Miller
- *Best Adapted Screenplay - Dan Futterman
- 59th BAFTA Awards:
- *Best Picture
- *Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman - WON
- *Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
- *Best Director - Bennett Miller
- *Best Adapted Screenplay - Dan Futterman
- Broadcast Film Critics Association:Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman
- Directors Guild of America: Best Director - Bennett Miller
- Independent Spirit Awards: Best Picture, Producers Award - Caroline Baron
- Online Film Critics Society: Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener, Best Breakthrough Filmmaker - Bennett Miller, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman
- Producers Guild of America Awards: Best Theatrical Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener, Best Ensemble Cast
- Writers Guild of America Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay - Dan Futterman
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