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*Ed Wood* is a 1994 American biographical drama and comedy film directed by Tim Burton. The cast includes Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Patricia Arquette, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, the film was distributed by Touchstone Pictures. It features music by Howard Shore and was shot in black-and-white. The narrative is set in Los Angeles, with filming taking place in Long Beach.
The film has a runtime of 127 minutes and is rated R. It received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, as well as a National Board of Review Top Ten Films award. The movie holds an IMDb rating of 7.8 and a Metascore of 71.
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Film · TMDB
7.5The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Cast
- Johnny Depp as Ed Wood
- Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Dolores Fuller
- Patricia Arquette as Kathy O'Hara
- Jeffrey Jones as Criswell
- G.D. Spradlin as Reverend Lemon
Themes
- individual
- taxi
- fortune teller
- transsexuality
- transvestite
- movie business
- drug addiction
- boxer
- oddball
- celebrity
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
188,531 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
71/100
- Year
- 1994
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 2 Oscars. 27 wins & 33 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Tim Burton
- Written by
- Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
- Based on
- Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr. , by Rudolph Grey
- Produced by
- Denise Di Novi Tim Burton
- Starring
- Johnny Depp Martin Landau Sarah Jessica Parker Patricia Arquette Jeffrey Jones Bill Murray
- Cinematography
- Stefan Czapsky
- Edited by
- Chris Lebenzon
- Music by
- Howard Shore
- Production companies
- Touchstone Pictures Tim Burton Productions Di Novi Pictures
- Distributed by
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- Release dates
- September 24, 1994 ( 1994-09-24 ) ( New York Film Festival ) September 30, 1994 ( 1994-09-30 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 127 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $18 million
- Box office
- $13.8 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Ed Wood
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Composer
- Howard Shore
- Producer
- Denise Di Novi
- Production company
- Touchstone Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Stefan Czapsky
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Long Beach
- Duration
- 127
- FilmAffinity ID
- 655275
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 12 more facts
- publication date
- 1994-10-07
- film editor
- Chris Lebenzon
- title
- Ed Wood
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- executive producer
- Michael Lehmann
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- costume designer
- Colleen Atwood
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 71/100
- characters
- Ed Wood
- capital cost
- 18000000
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the eponymous cult filmmaker. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, and Bill Murray are among the supporting cast.
The film was conceived by writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Alexander first proposed it as a documentary, when he was a student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Years later, irritated at being thought of solely as writers for family films with their work on Problem Child (1990) and its 1991 sequel, Alexander and Karaszewski struck a deal with Burton and Denise Di Novi to produce Ed Wood. Initially, Michael Lehmann was chosen to direct the project, but due to scheduling conflicts with his work on the film Airheads (1994), he had to vacate the director's position, which was taken over by Tim Burton.
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