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Capote
| Actor(s): Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood Director(s): Bennett Miller 60 |
Details
| MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity Movie Release: 2005 DVD Release: 03/21/2006 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Spanish, Thai SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Total Copies: 49 Genres: Drama, Period Film, Crime Drama, Biopic [feature] |
Synopsis
The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small degree of celebrity for his work when he read a short newspaper item about a multiple murder in a small Kansas town. For some reason, the story fascinated Capote, and he asked William Shawn (Bob Balaban), his editor at The New Yorker, to let him write a piece about the case. Capote had long believed that in the right hands, a true story could be molded into a tale as compelling as any fiction, and he believed this event, in which the brutal and unimaginable was visited upon a community where it was least expected, could be just the right material. Capote traveled to Kansas with his close friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), herself becoming a major literary figure with the success of -To Kill a Mockingbird, and while Capote's effete and mannered personal style stuck out like a sore thumb in Kansas, in time he gained the trust of Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent investigating the murder of the Clutter family, and with his help Capote's magazine piece grew into a full-length book. Capote also became familiar with the petty criminals who killed the Clutter family, Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) and Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.), and in Smith he found a troubling kindred spirit more like himself than he wanted to admit. After attaining a sort of friendship with Smith under the assumption that the man would be executed before the book was ever published, Capote finds himself forced to directly confront the moral implications of his actions with regards to both his role in the man's death, and the way that he would be remembered. Capote also co-stars Bruce Greenwood as Capote's longtime companion Jack Dunphy, and Amy Ryan as Mary Dewey, Alvin's wife who became a confidante of Capote's. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Cast
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Catherine Keener - Nelle Harper Lee
Clifton Collins, Jr. - Perry Smith
Chris Cooper - Alvin Dewey
Bruce Greenwood - Jack Dunphy
Catherine Keener - Nelle Harper Lee
Clifton Collins, Jr. - Perry Smith
Chris Cooper - Alvin Dewey
Bruce Greenwood - Jack Dunphy
Awards
| 2005 | Best Screenplay (winner) | Independent Spirit Awards | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Independent Spirit Awards | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Cinematography (nominee) | Independent Spirit Awards | Adam Kimmel |
| 2005 | Producers Award (winner) | Independent Spirit Awards | Caroline Baron |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (winner) | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Screenplay (winner) | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Broadcast Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | Broadcast Film Critics Association | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Screenplay (nominee) | Broadcast Film Critics Association | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Boston Society of Film Critics | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (winner) | Boston Society of Film Critics | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Screenplay (winner) | Boston Society of Film Critics | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | National Board of Review | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (winner) | Golden Globe | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (winner) | Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Director (winner) | San Diego Film Critics Association | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | San Diego Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay (winner) | San Diego Film Critics Association | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Screenplay (nominee) | Chicago Film Critics Association | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Chicago Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | Chicago Film Critics Association | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Most Promising Director (winner) | Chicago Film Critics Association | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee) | Writers Guild of America | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (nominee) | Kansas City Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (nominee) | Toronto Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | Toronto Film Critics Association | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best First Feature (nominee) | Toronto Film Critics Association | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Screen Actors Guild | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | Screen Actors Guild | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Director (nominee) | Directors Guild of America | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | National Society of Film Critics | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Director (Runner-up) (winner) | National Society of Film Critics | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (Runner-up) (winner) | National Society of Film Critics | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Screenplay (Runner-up) (winner) | National Society of Film Critics | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Online Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | Online Film Critics Association | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee) | Online Film Critics Association | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Breakthrough Filmmaker (nominee) | Online Film Critics Association | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Actor (nominee) | Iowa Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Director (nominee) | British Academy of Film and Television | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee) | British Academy of Film and Television | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | British Academy of Film and Television | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | British Academy of Film and Television | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Producer of the Year (nominee) | Producers Guild of America | Caroline Baron |
| 2005 | Producer of the Year (nominee) | Producers Guild of America | William Vince |
| 2005 | Producer of the Year (nominee) | Producers Guild of America | Michael Ohoven |
| 2005 | Best Actor (winner) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actress (nominee) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | Catherine Keener |
| 2005 | Best Director (nominee) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Best Picture (nominee) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | Caroline Baron |
| 2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | Dan Futterman |
| 2005 | Best First Film (winner) | New York Film Critics Circle | Bennett Miller |
| 2006 | Screenwriter of the Year (nominee) | London Film Critics Association | Dan Futterman |
| 2006 | Best Actor (nominee) | London Film Critics Association | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2006 | Best Picture (nominee) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | Michael Ohoven |
| 2005 | Best Picture (nominee) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie | William Vince |
Member Reviews
Duane S. - FORT WORTH, TX wrote on 6/15/2008...Julie V. - WOODSTOCK, GA wrote on 2/23/2008...
1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This movie was great. It told the true tell of how Truman Capote wrote the book "In Cold Blood". Which is one of the greatest books ever written. I can truly see where Philip Seymour Hoffman won as many awards as he did for his performance. DVDs Similar to "Capote"
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