Cold Mountain
Directed by	Anthony Minghella
Produced by	Albert Berger William Horberg Sydney Pollack Ron Yerxa
Written by	Anthony Minghella Charles Frazier
Starring	Jude Law Nicole Kidman Renée Zellweger Eileen Atkins Charlie Hunnam Jack White
Music by	Soundtrack includes many tracks by Jack White
Cinematography by	{{{cinematography}}}
Editing by	{{{editing}}}
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Released	December 25, 2003
Running time	152 min.
Language	English
Budget	$83,000,000
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See Han-Shan (Cold Mountain) for the Chinese poet.

Cold Mountain is a novel by Charles Frazier, which was adapted by Anthony Minghella into a film in 2003. Minghella subsequently directed the film. The movie stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Natalie Portman. Rock musician Jack White also had a role in the film. Although set in the Southern United States, it was mostly filmed in the Transylvania region of Romania. Cold Mountain movie promo poster This work is copyrighted. ... Anthony Minghella is a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. ... Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American actor, producer, and director. ... Anthony Minghella is a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. ... Charles Frazier, American novelist, was born in 1950 in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... Law in The Wisdom of Crocodiles (US title: Immortality) David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an English actor. ... Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American-born Australian actress, producer and singer. ... Renée Zellweger Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969 in Katy, Texas) is an Academy Award-winning movie actress. ... Eileen Atkins - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Charlie Hunnam (born 10 April 1980 in Newcastle, England) is an English actor. ... White performing in 2005. ... Jack White has been the name of several people, among them are: Jack White, rock musician and one half of the group The White Stripes, producer, and actor Jack White, First World War Victoria Cross recipient Jack White, a German producer of disco music, see also German article John (Jack... Miramax is a Big Ten film distribution and production company. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Han-Shan (寒山，translated into English as Cold Mountain) was a Chinese Tang era poet in the Taoist/Zen tradition, honored as a Bodhisattva. ... Charles Frazier, American novelist, was born in 1950 in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... Anthony Minghella is a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Law in The Wisdom of Crocodiles (US title: Immortality) David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an English actor. ... Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American-born Australian actress, producer and singer. ... Renée Zellweger Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969 in Katy, Texas) is an Academy Award-winning movie actress. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967 in Fairport, New York) is a U.S. actor. ... Natalie Portman Natalie Hershlag (born June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel) better known under her stage name Natalie Portman, is an Oscar nominated Israeli-American actress. ... White performing in 2005. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen; see also other languages) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ...

The movie's makers have been criticized for the uncalled-for albino bias in the movie, or the negative depiction of people with albino features as dangerous or evil. In particular, the film features a fictional violence-loving evildoer with albinism named Bosie. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for: Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

• Best Achievement in Cinematography (John Seale)
• Best Achievement in Editing (Walter Murch)
• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score (Gabriel Yared)
• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (for T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the song "The Scarlet Tide")
• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (for Sting for the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love")
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Jude Law)
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Renée Zellweger). Zellweger won the Academy Award.

Law plays a Confederate soldier named W. P. Inman, fed up with war, who starts off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and the woman he loves, Ada (Kidman). But Ada is a city woman who only recently moved to the rural farm where her minister father has recently died, and struggles to keep the farm going with the help of Ruby (Zellweger). The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ... John Seale (born October 5, 1942 in Warwick, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian cinematographer. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ... Walter Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy award winning film editor/sound mixer. ... From Rule Sixteen of the Special Rules for The Music Awards Original Score: An original score is a substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ... Academy Award for Best Song // 1930s 1934 - The Continental from The Gay Divorcee 1935 Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935 1936 The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time 1937 Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding 1938 - Thanks for the Memory from The Big Broadcast of 1938 1939 Over... Cover of Proof Through the Night, 1983. ... Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus, aka Elvis Costello. ... Academy Award for Best Song // 1930s 1934 - The Continental from The Gay Divorcee 1935 Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935 1936 The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time 1937 Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding 1938 - Thanks for the Memory from The Big Broadcast of 1938 1939 Over... Sting in Budapest, 2000 Sting redirects here. ... The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people 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 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people 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. ... Motto: Deo Vindice (Latin: With God As Our Vindicator) Anthem: God Save the South (unofficial) Dixie (popular) Capital Montgomery, Alabama February 4, 1861–May 29, 1861 Richmond, Virginia May 29, 1861–April 9, 1865 Danville, Virginia April 3–April 10, 1865 Largest city New Orleans February 4, 1861 until captured... State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Official languages English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley (D) Senators Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 28th 139,509 km² 9. ...

Cold Mountain is a mountain in North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountains. It is located in the Pisgah National Forest and is very suitable for hiking, on the Art Loeb Trail. A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, extending as a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 1500 miles south... The Pisgah National Forest covers 1,076,711 acres of mountainous terrain across western North Carolina. ...

The film begins with a vivid re-creation of the Battle of the Crater. The Battle of the Crater was a battle of the American Civil War, part of the Siege of Petersburg. ...

W. P. Inman (first names William Pinkney, although this is not mentioned in the film) was a real person from Cold Mountain who served in the Confederate Army, from which he deserted twice, and is reputedly buried in a local cemetery. His descendants still live in the area. [1]

The film was one of an increasing number of Hollywood productions made in eastern Europe, chiefly because of much lower costs in the region but in this specific instance because Transylvania was less marked by modern life than the Appalachians (fewer power lines, telephone poles, paved roads and so on). This caused some controversy in North Carolina, although in fact an estimated 95 percent of feature films and television shows made in the state since the 1980s were set somewhere else.

The film also marked a technological and industry turnaround in editing. Murch edited Cold Mountain on Apple's sub-$1000 Final Cut Pro software using off the shelf G4's. This was a leap for such a big budgeted film, where expensive Avid systems are usually the standard NLE tool. His efforts on the film were documented in the 2005 book Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema. Apple Computer Inc. ... Final Cut Pro is a non-linear editing system created by Apple Computer that allows users to edit video. ... The Power Macintosh G4 (Power Mac G4) was series of personal computers made by Apple. ... Avid Technology, Inc, a publicly traded company since 1993, is registered on the NASDAQ under the symbol AVID. The company is involved with digital nonlinear media creation, management and distribution services. ... A non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing system that can perform random access on the source material. ...

External links

• Official site
• Cold Mountain at the Internet Movie Database
• Hiking on Cold Mountain
• Map of the area around Cold Mountain