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Capote

Promotional poster for Capote
Directed by Bennett Miller
Produced by Caroline Baron
William Vince
Michael Ohoven
Written by Screenplay:
Dan Futterman
Biography:
Gerald Clarke
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman
Catherine Keener
Clifton Collins Jr.
Chris Cooper
Bruce Greenwood
Mark Pellegrino
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography Adam Kimmel
Editing by Christopher Tellefsen
Distributed by United Artists
Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s) September 30, 2005
February 23, 2006
February 24, 2006
September 30, 2006
Running time 114 min.
Country Canada / USA [1]
Language English
Budget $ 7 million [2]
Gross revenue Domestic
$28,750,530 [2]
Foreign
$20,482,631 [2] Worldwide
$49,233,161 [2]
Official website
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

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 book In Cold Blood. The movie itself was based on the biography called Capote by Gerald Clarke. The movie was filmed mostly in Manitoba[3], in the autumn of 2004, and was released on 30 September 2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's 81st birthday. Image File history File links Capote_poster. ... Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director. ... Dan Futterman (born June 8, 1967 in Silver Spring, Maryland, and grew up in Larchmont, New York) is an American actor and screenwriter. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Catherine Ann Keener (born March 26, 1960 in Miami, Florida) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Clifton Collins Jr. ... Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956 in Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian actor. ... Mark Pellegrino (b. ... Mychael Danna is a film composer. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Sony Pictures Classics is the specialty films division of Sony Pictures. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... Poster for Man on the Moon (1999), a biopic A biographical picture— often shortened to biopic— is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. ... Truman Capote (pronounced ) (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a non-fiction novel. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... In Cold Blood is a 1965 book by American author Truman Capote. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YT NT NU Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard - Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 14 - Senate seats 6 Confederation... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Contents

Plot

The movie opens in Kansas with the discovery of the dead bodies of four of the members of the Clutter family by a family friend. While reading the Times, Truman Capote is riveted by the story of the Clutters and calls William Shawn, then the editor of The New Yorker, to announce that he will personally document the tragedy. Official language(s) English[2] Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area  Ranked 15th  - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 km²)  - Width 211 miles (340 km)  - Length 417 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ... Herbert William Clutter (born 24 May 1911, died 15 November 1959) was one of four members of the Clutter family murdered during an invasion of their Holcomb, Kansas farmhouse by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, two ex-convicts who mistakenly believed that a large amount of money was kept in... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Truman Capote (pronounced ) (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a non-fiction novel. ... William Shawn (August 31, 1907-December 8, 1992) was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ...


He travels to Kansas with his childhood friend Harper Lee. Lee was then in the process of getting To Kill a Mockingbird written and published, which the film references several times. Capote 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 is initially brushed off by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's lead detective on the case, Alvin Dewey. Dewey's wife, however, is a fan of Capote's writing and persuades him to invite Capote and Lee to their house for dinner. Mrs. Dewey is starstruck by Capote's stories of being on movie sets with film stars. Dewey warms up to Capote, which facilitates Capote's visits to the prison where the suspects (Perry Smith and Dick Hickock) are being held. Capote begins to form an attachment to Perry. Following their trial and conviction, Capote is able to gain access to the murderers by bribing the warden. Capote spends the following years regularly visiting Perry and learning about his life, excepting a year long stint where Capote abandons Perry and writes the "first three parts" of the book with Jack Dunphy in Morocco and Spain. The story of Perry's life, his upset and remorseful manner, and his emotional sincerity impress Capote. The writer becomes emotionally attached to Perry and feels sympathy for him, notwithstanding his involvement in the murders. Perry refuses to tell Capote what happened on the night of the murders, which greatly angers the writer. Eventually, Perry tells him in great detail. The story becomes a meditation upon the need for redemption even in very grave circumstances. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work to date. ... To Kill a Mockingbird is a Southern Gothic bildungsroman novel by Harper Lee. ... Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts who murdered four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959, a crime made infamous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. ... Kansas State Penitentiary mug shot of Richard Hickock in March 1958, the year before the murders. ... Jack Dunphy (1915–1992) was a novelist and playwright born in a working class neighborhood of Philadelphia. ...


The last appeal is rejected and Perry and Dick are hanged. Perry's hanging 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. In Cold Blood is a 1965 book by American author Truman Capote. ...


Scenes concerning The New Yorker and its editor William Shawn have been overtly 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).


The film ends with the logic that Capote never wrote again (suggesting either he simply didn't write or wrote nothing of value) but this misleads the audience into believing the experience of invention destroyed his creative reach. In reality, the opposite occurred. Capote wrote quite a bit in his last years. The capstone was a stylized sequel to "In Cold Blood" called "Handcarved Coffins", a literary sleight of hand which was another masterpiece of true crime that the film strangely ignores.


Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote and Catherine Keener as Nelle Harper Lee.

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Filming dates

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Reviews

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Awards

Acting Awards for Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Critics' awards

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics. ... The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) is organization of film reviewers from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, based publications. ... The Chicago Film Critics Association is an American film critic association. ... The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA) is an organization of 35 print, radio/TV and internet journalists from Dallas-Fort Worth-based publications. ... Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ... The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) was founded in 1975. ... The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George McClennans revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908. ... New York Film Critics Circle Awards are given annually to honor excellence in cinema worldwide by an organization of film reviewers from New York City-based publications. ... The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) , the professional association for film journalists, scholars and historians who publish their reviews, interviews and essays exclusively or primarily in the online media. ... The Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) is an organization of film reviewers from publications based in the Southeastern United States. ... The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) is an organization of film reviewers from Toronto-based publications. ...

Nominations

The 78th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were held on March 5, 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. ... 59th BAFTA Awards February 19, 2006 The 59th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 19 February 2006, honored the best in film for 2005. ... The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics. ... Director Guild of America building on Sunset Boulevard. ... Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ... The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) , the professional association for film journalists, scholars and historians who publish their reviews, interviews and essays exclusively or primarily in the online media. ... Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade organization representing the television and film producers in the United States. ... Look up Sag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... WGA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: Writers Guild of America Williams Gateway Airport - an acronym for the airport in Mesa, Arizona Windows Genuine Advantage A kind of Display resolution Whole genome amplification Wheat germ agglutinin - a lectin (protein that binds certain sugars) Category: ...

See also

Infamous (Previously: Have You Heard?; and Every Word Is True USA working title) is a forthcoming film from Warner Independent Pictures, due to be released in September 2006. ... In Cold Blood is a 1965 book by American author Truman Capote. ... Truman Capote (pronounced ) (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a non-fiction novel. ... Lowell Lee Andrews was a University of Kansas sophomore convicted of killing his parents and his sister on November 28, 1958. ...

References

  1. ^ Capote (2005). IMDB.com. Retrieved on 15 November 2006.
  2. ^ a b c d Capote (2005). boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved on 16 November 2006.
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/locations

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External links

  • Official site
  • Capote at the Internet Movie Database
  • Capote at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Capote at Metacritic
  • Capote at Box Office Mojo
  • Lawrence Journal-World (November 28, 2005): "A crime for all time" by Mike Belt
  • Lawrence Journal-World (December 7, 2005): "Actor portrays KU student in ‘Capote’" by J-W Staff Reports
  • London's 020 Entertainment Movie Review
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