Related Directory Categories
- Being Julia (3)
Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Being Julia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Being Julia | |
|---|---|
 Being Julia film poster |
|
| Directed by | István Szabó |
| Produced by | Robert Lantos |
| Written by | W. Somerset Maugham (novel), Ronald Harwood |
| Starring | Annette Bening, Shaun Evans, Jeremy Irons |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Release date(s) | September 3, 2004 |
| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$18,000,000 |
| IMDb profile | |
Being Julia is a 2004 film directed by István Szabó, inspired by W. Somerset Maugham's novel Theatre.
Contents |
Set in the world of the London stage in the late 1930s, reigning diva Julia Lambert's success and fame grow suddenly wearisome. She falls in love with a young American, Tom Fennel, and begins a passionate affair. When she realises that Tom is just a young social climber whose real passion is ambitious young starlet Avis Crichton, Julia begins to plot a delightful revenge.
- Annette Bening as Julia Lambert
- Shaun Evans as Tom Fennel
- Jeremy Irons as Michael Gosselyn
- Lucy Punch as Avis Crichton
- Tom Sturridge as Roger Gosselyn
For her performance in the film, Annette Bening won the "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy" in the 2005 Golden Globe awards, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award. She however, lost both the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Academy Award to Hilary Swank.
 Cinema of Hungary |
|
|---|---|
|
Actors • Directors • Films A-Z • Chronology of films • Cinematographers • Composers • Editors • Producers • Screenwriters • |
|