Nixon is a 1995 film which tells the story of the political and personal life of former President Richard Nixon. It stars Anthony Hopkins as Nixon, Joan Allen (Pat), Powers Boothe (Haig), Ed Harris (Hunt), Bob Hoskins (Hoover), E.G. Marshall (Mitchell), David Paymer (Ziegler), David Hyde Pierce (Dean), Paul Sorvino (Kissinger), Mary Steenburgen (Nixon's mother), J.T. Walsh (Ehrlichman), James Woods (Haldeman), and a veritable who's who of cameo appearances. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seal of the President of the United States, official impression The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... Order: 37th President Vice President: Spiro Agnew (1969–1973), Gerald R. Ford (1973–1974) Term of office: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 Preceded by: Lyndon B. Johnson Succeeded by: Gerald R. Ford Date of birth: January 9, 1913 Place of birth: Yorba Linda, California Date of death: April 22... Anthony Hopkins A separate article is about composer Antony Hopkins. ... Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, Illinois, USA) is an American actress. ... Pat Nixon Patricia Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of Richard Nixon and First Lady of the United States from 1969-1974. ... Powers Boothe is a television and movie actor. ... Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. ... Ed Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor. ... Everette Howard Hunt (born October 9, 1918 in East Hamburg, New York, United States) worked for the White House under President Richard Nixon, figured in the Watergate Scandal, and was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison. ... Robert William Bob Hoskins (born October 26, 1942) is a British actor who specialises in playing Cockney rough diamonds and/or gangsters and in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). ... Hoover in 1961 John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 10, 1924, and remained so until his death in 1972, having been appointed to that position for life by Lyndon Johnson. ... Everett Gunnar Marshall (June 18, 1910 - August 24, 1998) was an American actor who starred in 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Marshall was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. ... John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 - November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned. ... David Paymer (born 30 August 1954) is an American actor. ... Ronald Louis Ziegler (May 12, 1939 – February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary during United States President Richard Nixons administration from 1969–1974 and Assistant to the President in 1974. ... David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor, best known for the role of Dr. Niles Crane on the situation comedy Frasier. ... John Dean, May 7, 1972. ... Paul Sorvino (born April 13, 1939) is an Italian American actor who career has largely been the portrayal of authority figures, both as legal enforcer and criminal, in television, stage, and film. ... Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger, (born May 27, 1923) former United States Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who played a dominant role in foreign affairs between 1969 and 1977. ... Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress. ... J.T. Walsh (September 28, 1943–February 27, 1998) was an American actor best known for his roles as quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films. ... John D. Ehrlichman as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, May 13, 1969. ... James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. ... H.R. Haldeman, January 21, 1971. ...

The movie was written by Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone. It was directed by Stone. Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946 in New York City) is an Academy Award-winning American film director. ...

Confounding the expectations of some critics who expected the movie to be a "hatchet job," it actually portrays Nixon as a complex and in many respects admirable character, though deeply flawed. Stone's only ideological polemic in the film is to attempt to link Nixon to the assassination of John F. Kennedy by his association with ultra-right wing business leaders, anti-Castro Cubans, and Nixon's visit to Dallas in November of 1963 (coinciding with Kennedy's own, ill-fated arrival at Dallas's Love Field). John F. Kennedy The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). ... Dallas redirects here. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Love Field is an airport in Dallas, Texas with the IATA airport code DAL, and ICAO airport code KDAL. Love Field was the primary airport for Dallas until 1974, when Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport opened. ...

The film covers all aspects of Nixon's life in order to get a better psychological portrait of both the man and the president; however, the film is not to be taken as literal history "as it happened," but rather as a pastiche and composite of actual events. It depicts his childhood in Whittier, California as well as his growth as a young man, football fan/player, and suitor to his eventual wife, Pat Nixon. It fully explores most of the important achievements of his presidency, including his downfall due to abuse of executive power in the White House. Most of the major and minor figures who helped propel Nixon to the Presidency are represented as well as those who played important roles within his administration. The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. ... Whittier is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ... Pat Nixon Patricia Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of Richard Nixon and First Lady of the United States from 1969-1974. ... The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. ...

The film is a non-chronological narrative and is typical of Oliver Stone's visual style and cinematic approach to history, using a variety of film stocks and video techniques to give a sense of time, place, psychology and mood. The film's opening sequence offers a visual/aural homage to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and invokes the overall mood of Shakespearean tragedy. The cinematic style is considered to be "operatic," meaning that the figure of Nixon is writ larger than life across the screen and all aspects of the incidents that make up his life are explored with a heightened sense of style in order to create psychological suture and draw the viewer in for a better understanding of why Nixon acted as he did. The film is not nearly as judgemental as Stone's prior work (notably his 60's Trilogy of: Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, and Heaven & Earth, as well as his highly controversial work JFK. His film The Doors is also oriented toward his own experiences in the 1960's but leaves out arguments against America's involvement in the Vietnam War). Orson Welles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) is generally considered one of Hollywoods greatest directors, as well as a fine actor, broadcaster and screenwriter. ... Citizen Kane is the first feature film directed by Orson Welles (he had directed two short films previously), and is loosely based on the life of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and the reclusive aerospace and movie mogul Howard Hughes. ... A Shakespearean tragedy usually involves the following: A seemingly admirable protagonist who falls from grace and into doom due to a fatal flaw in his/her character. ... Platoon is a 1986 Vietnam war film, written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen and Forest Whitaker. ... Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 autobiographical film which tells the story of Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. ... JFK is a film, first released in Canada and the United States on December 20, 1991, which purports to tell the history of the President of the United States John F. Kennedys assassination. ... The Doors is a 1991 film about Jim Morrison and The Doors. ... The Vietnam War was a war fought roughly from 1957 to 1975 after the North Vietnamese government secretly agreed to begin involvement in South Vietnam. ...

Anthony Hopkins' performance is stunning in light of the fact that both the actor and director decided to eschew the use of prosthetic makeup in creating the iconographic figure of Richard Nixon (test makeup for Nixon actually appears in some quickly edited clips during the film, and looks almost odd in comparison). The famous sloped nose and heavy jowls are gone, but the stiff shoulders, slicked back hair, and tense, nervous grin are all there in spades. Hopkins achieves a remarkable resemblance to the man by acting as if he really was Nixon, warts and all. The result is that Hopkins mimicry is almost note-perfect (as is Paul Sorvino's portrayal of Kissinger). Nixon's alcohol dependency (heavy social drinking was the norm during those times), as well as that of his wife, is fully implied here as is the pill addiction he faced during his remaining years in office (Nixon's health problems, including his bout of phlebitis and pneumonia during the Watergate crisis are also shown in the film, and his pill use is sometimes attributed to those health issues). Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner who played an important part in foreign affairs through the positions he held in several Republican administrations between 1969 and 1977. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Phlebitis is an inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs). ... Pneumonia (the ancient Greek word for lungs) is defined as an inflamation, usually caused by infection, involving the alveoli of the lungs. ...

The defining event of his Presidency, Watergate, is fully explored here and bookends the film as the culmination of years of neurosis, private inadequacy and paranoia that Nixon went through during most of his life and political career. The film allows for the fact that it was not just a bungled burglary at the Watergate Hotel that caused his downfall, but that it was simply the lynchpin that allowed Congress to investigate his other misdeeds and abuses of power in the Executive Office. The other impeachable offenses are detailed as well: the so-called secret bombing of Cambodia, the harassment of Daniel Ellsberg, the misuse of domestic intelligence, the stonewalling of Congress [1] (http://watergate.info/impeachment/impeachment-articles.shtml). Other events explored include his early political years as a Congressman and anti-Communist "red-baiter", the Alger Hiss case, his years as Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower including the infamous Checkers speech, his 1962 run for Governor of California against Pat Brown, his infamous 1962 concession speech declaring the end of his political career, and his political resurrection after his defeat in his first run for the Presidency against John F. Kennedy. The film ends with Nixon's resignation and famous departure from the lawn of the White House on the helicopter Army One. Real life footage of Nixon's state funeral in Yorba Linda, California plays out over the extended end credits, and all living presidents at the time, including Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, are shown in attendance [2] (http://www.nixonlibrary.org/Nixons/rnfuneral.shtml). The Watergate building. ... The Watergate Hotel is a luxury hotel in Washington, DC best known for being the site of the robbery that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. ... 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Order: 34th President Vice President: Richard Nixon Term of office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 Preceded by: Harry S. Truman Succeeded by: John F. Kennedy Date of birth: October 14, 1890 Place of birth: Denison, Texas Date of death: March 28, 1969 Place of death: Washington, D.C. First... The Checkers speech was a speech given by Richard Nixon on September 23, 1952, when he was the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis with President George W. Bush (2003) The Governor of California is the highest executive authority in the state government, whose responsibilities include making yearly State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, attending a grand meeting with all the... Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. ... Order: 35th President Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Term of office: January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 Preceded by: Dwight D. Eisenhower Succeeded by: Lyndon B. Johnson Date of birth: May 29, 1917 Place of birth: Brookline, Massachusetts Date of death: November 22, 1963 Place of death: Dallas, Texas First... A resignation occurs when a person holding a position gained by election or appointment steps down. ... Categories: Military stubs ... Yorba Linda is a city located in Orange County, California. ... Order: 38th President Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller Term of office: August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977 Preceded by: Richard Nixon Succeeded by: Jimmy Carter Date of birth: July 14, 1913 Place of birth: Omaha, Nebraska First Lady: Betty Ford Political party: Republican Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... Order: 39th President Vice President: Walter Mondale Term of office: January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 Preceded by: Gerald Ford Succeeded by: Ronald Reagan Date of birth: October 1, 1924 Place of birth: Plains, Georgia First Lady: Rosalynn Carter Political party: Democratic James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: February 6, 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: June 5, 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born June... 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It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Joan Allen), Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...

A director's cut was released on DVD, with 28 minutes of previously deleted scenes restored. Much of the added time consists of two scenes, one in which Nixon met with CIA director Richard Helms (played by Sam Waterston), and another on Tricia Nixon's wedding day, in which J. Edgar Hoover persuades Nixon to install the taping system in the Oval Office. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... CIA, see CIA (disambiguation). ... Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973. ... Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Executive Assistant District Attorney John Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, as well as for his many motion picture roles. ... Categories: Stub | 1946 births | Children of U.S. Presidents ... The Oval Office is the official office of the President of the United States, in the West Wing of the White House, built in 1902. ...

External links

• Nixon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113987/) at the Internet Movie Database