Nashville
Directed by	Robert Altman
Produced by	Robert Altman
Written by	Joan Tewkesbury
Starring	Ned Beatty Keith Carradine Geraldine Chaplin Scott Glenn Shelley Duvall
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Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Released	11 June 1975 (premiere)
Running time	159 min.
Language	English
Budget	USD$2,000,000 (estimated)
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IMDb profile

Nashville is a 1975 film which mixes themes of U.S. presidential politics with those of the country music and gospel music businesses in Nashville, Tennessee. The large ensemble cast features David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, David Hayward, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles and Keenan Wynn. Image File history File links This is the DVD cover art for the movie Nashville. ... Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman (born February 20, 1925) is an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman (born February 20, 1925) is an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... Ned Thomas Beatty (born Louisville, Kentucky July 6, 1937) is an American character actor, who has appeared in over 100 films. ... Keith Carradine Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an actor born into a family of actors. ... Geraldine Chaplin (born July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an Anglo-American actress. ... Image:Scott Glenn. ... Shelley Duvall in a publicity photo from the 1970s. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... USD redirects here. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... The President of the United States (unofficially abbreviated “POTUS”) is the head of state of the United States. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Politics Look up Politics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Politics (disambiguation) Democracy History of democracy List of democracy and elections-related topics List of years in politics List of politics by country articles Political corruption Political economy Political movement Political parties of... Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music. ... Gospel music may refer either to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the 1930s or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by white southern Christian artists. ... The Nashville skyline Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. ... Ned Thomas Beatty (born Louisville, Kentucky July 6, 1937) is an American character actor, who has appeared in over 100 films. ... Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces Karen Black (born July 1, 1945) is an American actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. ... Ronee Blakley in Nashville Ronee Blakley (b. ... Keith Carradine Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an actor born into a family of actors. ... Geraldine Chaplin (born July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an Anglo-American actress. ... Allen Garfield (22 November 1939 Newark, New Jersey, USA) is an American film person. ... Henry Gibson Henry Gibson Bateman (born September 21, 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who was famous as a cast member of Rowan and Martins Laugh-In. ... Image:Scott Glenn. ... Jeff Goldblum Goldblum, in a scene with Kim Thomson from the 1989 film The Tall Guy. ... Lily Tomlin as The West Wings Deborah Fiderer. ... Keenan Wynn, (27 July 1916 – 14 October 1986), an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. ...

The movie was written by Joan Tewkesbury and directed by Robert Altman. It has the trademark Altman overlapping dialogue and huge casts. The actors and actresses were required to write and perform their own songs live for the movie, as opposed to the usual "playback" method of performing songs on film. Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman (born February 20, 1925) is an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ...

It won an Oscar for Best Music, Song (Keith Carradine for "I'm Easy") and was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress (Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin), Best Director and Best Picture categories. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Carradine performed "I'm Easy" at the famed (and, as of 2005, still-extant) performance venue the "Exit/In". Most signficant for the film itself, however, is its theme piece, heard sporadically throughout, and then brought to a climax at the end: "It Don't Worry Me", the refrain of which is clearly the unifying metatheme of the movie itself: "It don't worry me, it don't worry me. You may say that I ain't free, but it don't worry me." 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. ... 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... 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. ... The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is the unofficial national library of the United States. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Many of the characters in the film are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is based on Porter Wagoner; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn; the black country singer Tommy Brown (played by Timothy Brown) is based on Charley Pride; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary. The 1992 presidential campaign of H. Ross Perot was felt by many to be eerily similar to the campaign of the "Replacement Party" and its candidate in this film, Hal Phillip Walker, the fictional candidate even having a voice remarkably similar to that of Perot's. The Porter Wagoner Show, RCA, 1963 Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927, in Howell County, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains) is an American country music singer. ... Loretta Lynn on the cover of her album Who Was That Stranger Loretta Lynn (born April 14, 1935) is an American country singer, known as Americas Sweetheart. ... Timothy Brown, (born Thomas Allen Brown, May 24, 1937 in Knightstown, Indiana) played Dr. Spearchucker Jones in the television series M*A*S*H. He was dropped from the show when the producers learned that there were no African American surgeons in the Korean War. ... Charley Pride in 2003 Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938 in Sledge, Mississippi) is a former Negro League baseball player who became one of the only African Americans to have a successful career in modern country music. ... The trio Peter, Paul and Mary (often PP&M) is one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Henry Ross Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American businessman billionaire from Texas best known as a candidate for President of the United States (in 1992 and 1996). ...

External link

• Nashville at the Internet Movie Database