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Capote is an Academy Award-winning 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal) on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. The film follows the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood. The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the autumn of 2004, and was released on September 30, 2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's birthday.

As of March 16, 2006, the film amassed a U.S. Box Office gross of $27 million.

Plot

The movie opens in Kansas with the discovery of the dead bodies of the four members of the Clutter family by a family friend. Truman Capote is a New York celebrity, especially for his work Breakfast at Tiffany’s.. Like the historical person, the film character has a high-pitched voice and acts very effeminete. While reading the Times, he is riveted by a story of the Clutters and calls his editor at The New Yorker to announce that he will personally document the tragedy.

He travels to Kansas with his childhood friend Harper Lee, and sets about interviewing those involved with the victims, the Clutter family, with Lee as his go-between and interpreter of rural life. When the murderers are apprehended, Truman ingratiates himself with the wife of the town's sheriff and gains access to one of the suspects, Perry Smith, and FBI agent Dewey. Truman spends the next five years writing his masterpiece, waiting the outcome of the trials and appeals and eventual punishment of Smith and his partner in crime, Dick Hickock. Capote has mixed feelings about the last appeal: it means that the case which absorbs his life drags on longer, and he cannot finish his book.

The last appeal is rejected and Smith and his partner are hanged. One of the two hangings is explicitly shown.

The movie showcases Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of the openly gay southern author with his weaknesses for fame, alcohol, and attention. Capote became an international figure upon the release of the book In Cold Blood, which he would publish after the Clutter family killers were executed. Hoffman portrays Capote's conflict between personal literary ambitions while at the same time trying to maintain his role as a confidant to Perry, one of the two condemned killers.

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman
— Truman Capote
Catherine Keener
— Nelle Harper Lee
Clifton Collins Jr.
— Perry Smith
Chris Cooper
— Alvin Dewey
Bruce Greenwood
— Jack Dunphy
Bob Balaban
— William Shawn
Amy Ryan — Marie Dewey
Mark Pellegrino — Richard Hickock
Allie Mickelson — Laura Kinney
Marshall Bell
— Warden Marshall Krutch
Araby Lockhart — Dorothy Sanderson
Robert Huculak — New York Reporter
R.D. Reid — Roy Church
Rob McLaughlin — Harold Nye
Harry Nelken — Sheriff Walter Sanderson

Filming Dates

25 October 2004 - 1 December 2004 ( 36 Days )

Awards

Acting Awards for Philip Seymour Hoffman

2006 Oscar for Best Actor in a Lead Role
2006 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama
2005 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Drama
2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2005 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Critics' awards

Broadcast Film Critics Association
: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Boston Society of Film Critics: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Most Promising Filmmaker - Bennett Miller,
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
Independent Spirit Awards: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman
Kansas City Film Critics Circle: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Screenplay - Dan Futterman, Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener
National Board of Review: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
New York Film Critics Circle: Best First Film - Bennett Miller,
Online Film Critics Society: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Southeastern Film Critics Association
: Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Toronto Film Critics Association: Best First Feature - Bennett Miller, Best Performance, Male - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Supporting Performance, Female - Catherine Keener

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