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From ‘A Complete Unknown’ to ‘Selena’ to ‘Ray’: 33 Notable Music Biopics
John Lennon once said that “Music is everybody’s possession,” and for Hollywood filmmakers, they have taken that “ownership” to portray the stories of some of the recording industry’s most renowned musicians.
Whether it be the rise and fall of one of Tejano music’s most noteworthy stars, or depicting the different facets of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (in multiple movies), many of the actors’ portrayals have been recognized as prominent roles in their careers (some even earning Oscars along the way).
With the Dylan movie A Complete Unknownabout to hit theaters, The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at 33 films — from Selena to Walk the Line — depicting the lives of music legends.
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Maybe the first movie to tackle a city’s era-defining music scene — Manchester, from Joy Division’s late-’70s hatching of post-punk through the Madchester heyday of rave culture in the ’90s — this is also the story of Factory Records, the label that presented New Order, the Happy Mondays and James to the world; it’s also about Factory owner, TV presenter and scene captain Tony Wilson, played her
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Bob Dylan Biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ Tops $100 Million in Global Box Office: See Where It Ranks Among Top 25 Music Biopics
The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has topped the $100 million threshold in worldwide box-office grosses, according to boxofficemojo.com. The film, which has grossed $104 million as of Tuesday (Feb. 18), ranks No. 8 on our list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses. And it’s still moving up at a brisk pace.
Timothée Chalamet stars in A Complete Unknown, which follows Dylan from January 1961, when he moved from Minnesota to New York City, to July 1965, when he caused an uproar by playing electronic instruments at the Newport Folk Festival. James Mangold, who directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, also did the honors here.
A Complete Unknown received eight Oscar nominations on Jan. 23, and made Oscar history as the first music biopic to receive three acting nods — for Chalamet as Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Mangold had directed three previous actors in Oscar-nominated performances – Angelina Jolie in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar-nominated role as Cash in Walk the Line and Reese Witherspoon in her Oscar-winning rol
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The 50 Superb Music Biopic Movies
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