Capote (2005)

Directed by

Bennett Miller

Genre

drama film, biographical film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1,654 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows writer Truman Capote as he researches and writes his nonfiction book In Cold Blood, spending years building relationships with the people involved in a murder case. It shows how this work affects his life and artistic process.

focusedquietly intensemelancholiccharacter-drivenrestrainedreflectiveslow-pacedsomber

What happens

Capote is a 2005 biographical drama film about American novelist Truman Capote directed by Bennett Miller, written by Dan Futterman and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role. The film primarily follows the events during the writing of Capote's 1965 nonfiction book In Cold Blood. The film was based on Gerald Clarke's 1988 biography Capote. It was released by Sony Pictures Classics on September 30, 2005, coinciding with what would have been Capote's 81st birthday. The film became a box-office success and received acclaim from critics for Hoffman's lead performance. It won several awards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director for Miller, Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Keener, and Best Adapted Screenplay, with Hoffman winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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