Philadelphia | film by Demme [1993] | Britannica (original) (raw)
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In Jonathan Demme The courtroom drama Philadelphia (1993) starred Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning turn as a homosexual lawyer fired after being diagnosed with AIDS. Beloved (1998), an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel, featured Oprah Winfrey as a former slave haunted by her past. Rachel Getting Read More
Oscars to Hanks for best actor and Springsteen for best original song, 1993
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Banderas
In Antonio Banderas …lover in the box-office hit Philadelphia (1993). Banderas subsequently appeared in a series of English-language films, including The House of the Spirits (1993); Interview with the Vampire (1994), an adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel that also featured Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt; Miami Rhapsody (1995); Robert Read More
Corman
In Roger Corman: Other projects and legacy …in such Demme films as Philadelphia (1993), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), and Rachel Getting Married (2008). Other notable films included Apollo 13 (1995). Read More
Hanks
In Tom Hanks …gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993). Another Academy Award, for the phenomenally popular Forrest Gump (1994), made him the first actor to win back-to-back best actor Oscars since Spencer Tracy. Read More
Robards
In Jason Robards Robards’s later films included Philadelphia (1993), A Thousand Acres (1997), and Magnolia (1999). Read More
Steenburgen
In Mary Steenburgen …What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Philadelphia (1993), and Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995). She starred with Ted Danson (her husband from 1995) in the acclaimed two-part TV miniseries Gulliver’s Travels (1996). Steenburgen and Danson also starred in the short-lived TV comedy Ink (1996–97). She later appeared in _Life as a House_… Read More
Washington
In Denzel Washington …Nothing (1993), the courtroom drama Philadelphia (1993), the hard-boiled mystery Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and the military thriller Crimson Tide (1995). The latter was the first of several popular movies he made with director Tony Scott. During this time he also frequently worked with director Spike Lee Read More
Woodward
In Joanne Woodward …in the Academy Award-winning movie Philadelphia, and that same year she was the narrator of Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, based on Edith Wharton’s novel of the same name. Woodward’s last collaboration with her husband before he died, in 2008, was in the cable television miniseries Empire Falls (2005),… Read More
