Writer Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) researches the brutal murder of a Kansas family to pen the... (Learn more)
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Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr
The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small degree of celebrity for his work when he read a short newspaper item about a multiple murder in a small Kansas town. For some reason, the story fascinated Capote, and he asked William Shawn (Bob Balaban), his editor at The New Yorker, to let him write a piece about the case. Capote had long believed that in the right hands, a true story could be molded into a tale as compelling as any fiction, and he believed this event, in which the brutal and unimaginable was visited upon a community where it was least expected, could be just the right material. Capote traveled to Kansas with his close friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), herself becoming a major literary figure with the success of To Kill a Mockingbird, and while Capote's effete and mannered personal style stuck out like a sore thumb in Kansas, in time he gained the trust of Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent investigating the murder of the Clutter family, and with his help Capote's magazine piece grew into a full-length book. Capote also became familiar with the petty criminals who killed the Clutter family, Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) and Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.), and in Smith he found a troubling kindred spirit more like himself than he wanted to admit. After attaining a sort of friendship with Smith under the assumption that the man would be executed before the book was ever published, Capote finds himself forced to directly confront the moral implications of his actions with regards to both his role in the man's death, and the way that he would be remembered. Capote also co-stars Bruce Greenwood as Capote's longtime companion Jack Dunphy, and Amy Ryan as Mary Dewey, Alvin's wife who became a confidante of Capote's. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
9/30/05
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violent images and brief strong language
Running Time
114 mins.
Locations
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$28,747,570
Awards
- Nominated for a Breakthrough Filmmaker award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 San Diego Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Producer of the Year award at the 2005 Producers Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Winner of the Top Ten Film of the Year award at the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Most Promising Director award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2005 Boston Society of Film Critics [Festiv Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress (Runner-up) award at the 2005 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Ensemble award at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Top Ten Film award at the 2005 Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2005 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Boston Society of Film Critics [Festiv Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 2005 Kansas City Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 2005 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 2006 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 2005 Iowa Film Critics Association [Festiva Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 2005 San Diego Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director (Runner-up) award at the 2005 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay (Runner-up) award at the 2005 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2005 San Diego Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2006 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best First Feature award at the 2005 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Boston Society of Film Critics [Festiv Awards.
- Winner of the Producers Award award at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the Best First Film award at the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2005 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2005 Writers Guild of America [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Screenwriter of the Year award at the 2006 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 2005 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
Distributor
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
