"Just to put things in perspective, over the past decade, twelve of the twenty Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress went to biopic roles: Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich (2000), Nicole Kidman in The Hours (2002), Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002), Charlize Theron in Monster (2003), Jamie Foxx in Ray (2004), Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (2005), Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line (2005), Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006), Helen Mirren in The Queen (2006), Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose (2007), Sean Penn in Milk (2008), and Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (2009).
Clearly there's a special place for the biopic movie at the box office, with the chances of an Oscar nomination as an actor increasing exponentially. But to say that every biopic is a good movie would be an overstatement. It's not as easy as simply telling someone's life story."
The Script Lab
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