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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Original title
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Year
- 2008
- Running time
- 167 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
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- Screenwriter
Eric Roth (Story: F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Music
Alexandre Desplat
- Cinematography
Claudio Miranda
- Cast
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Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Julia Ormond, Elias Koteas, Elle Fanning, Jared Harris, Mahershala Ali, David Jensen, Tom Everett, Faune Chambers Watkins, Donna Duplantier, Ed Metzger, Danny Vinson, Fiona Hale, Marion Zinser, Patrick Thomas O'Brien, Phyllis Somerville, Ted Manson, Lance E. Nichols, Danny Nelson, Peter D. Badalamenti, Robert Towers, Sonya Leslie, Edith Ivey, Madisen Beaty
- Producer
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Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., The Kennedy/Marshall Company
- Genre
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Fantasy. Romance. Drama | 1980s. 1990s
- Movie Groups
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Adaptations
- Synopsis / Plot
- The story is about Benjamin Button, a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. That is, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Benjamin Button is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
- Awards
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2008: 3 Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Makeup, Visual Effects. 13 Nominations
2008: 5 Nominations for Golden Globe, including Best Movie, Director
2008: 3 BAFTA Awards, including Best Make up. 11 Nominations, including Best Film
2008: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Director & Best Cinematography
2008: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Runner Up for Best Original Score
2008: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Movies of the Year
2008: 8 Nominations for Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture, Director and Writer
2008: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 5 Nominations including Best Picture
2008: Producers Guild Awards (PGA): Nominated for Best Film
2008: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director
2008: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
2008: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): 3 Nominations including Best Cast
- Critics' reviews
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"See 'Benjamin Button,' just don't try to guess his age. (...) The film, ambitious if flawed, also is lyrical and melancholy (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)."
Claudia Puig: USA Today
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