The film King Richard, starring Will Smith, was selected as one of the Best Picture nominees at the 2022 Oscars. This is not the first time that biopics have received Oscar nominations. For those who are not familiar, a biopic is a film that tells the story of a person or character in real life.
Usually, biopic films dramatize and show the lives of people in a certain period. There are several biopic films that have won many awards and become the favorites of many people. What movies? Check out the list below!
1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Reporting from Esquire, the film A Beautiful Mind is a biopic that won many awards. Directed by Ron Howard, the film stars Russell Crowe. The film A Beautiful Mind brought home 4 Oscars for the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress.
This film tells the story of the American mathematician, John Nash. He is a mathematician who is a genius but asocial. Nash made fundamental contributions to the theory and complex math-based issues of everyday life.
One day, he received a secret job in cryptography. Soon his life turned into a nightmare, in which he himself suffered from paranoia-schizophrenia.
2. The Aviators (2004)
The Aviator film, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring top actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has become one of the favorite biopics of many people. The film was also nominated for Best Picture at the 2005 Oscars. The Aviator film itself is based on the non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham.
This film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer who is also the director of the film Hell's Angels. The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947, during which Hughes was both a successful film producer and a respected aviation magnate. However, Hughes turned out to be unstable because he had severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
3. The Social Network (2010)
Reporting from Refinery29, The Social Network is one of the best biopics of all time. The film, directed by David Fincher, stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Armie Hammer. The film was voted best film of 2010 by the National Board of Review and received a Best Picture Oscar nomination in 2011.
The film The Social Network is adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. This film tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student who created the social networking site known as Facebook. However, he is sued by his friend who claims that Mark stole their idea.
4. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
12 Years A Slave is a biopic that won an Oscar for Best Picture. The film which was released in 2013 was directed by Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor played the main role.
The film is adapted from the memoir of the same name written by David Wilson. Set in 1841, the film tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free African-American man born in New York, who is kidnapped in Washington by two con artists and sold into slavery. Nortup was then employed on a plantation in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released.
5. The Theory of Everything (2014)
The Theory of Everything is one of the best biopic films according to Movieweb. This romantic drama genre film was directed by James Marsh with Eddie Redmayne as the main character. The film received 5 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and won 1 Oscar in the Best Actor category for Eddie Redmayne.
The Theory of Everything is based on the memoir Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, written by Jane Hawking. This film depicts the relationship of the famous physicist, Stephen Hawking with his ex-wife, Jane Hawking. The film also depicts Stephen's life from his youth, his success in physics and the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Wow, it turns out that the story of people's lives can be an interesting film, huh! Have you watched it all?
