EBN- Julianne Moore turns 64 today, 40 of which she spent working hard and achieving successive successes in the art industry, during which she was incomparably prolific. She started her career in daytime series, then moved to the theater, and then launched into the world of cinema.
Over the course of nearly four decades in the industry, Moore has won an Oscar, a BAFTA, two Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards, and was chosen as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century by the New York Times in 2020.
On her birthday, and in honor of her artistic career, Sayidaty reviews her most prominent cinematic works.
Far from Heaven-2002
A 2002 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes, and starring Julianne Moore , Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where Moore won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and cinematographer Edward Lachman won the Outstanding Individual Contribution Award.
The film subsequently received numerous awards, including four Academy Award nominations . For Moore’s unique performance, she was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards that year, and won at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
The film tells further the story of Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore), a housewife in her fifties, living in a suburb of Connecticut, and her perfect, luxurious life begins to collapse, and turns upside down after the police arrest her husband, who works as a CEO of one of the largest companies.
Magnolia-1999
Drama film,, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Julianne Moore ; Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise , Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy.
The film is a three-hour epic about the complicated lives of several Southern Californians searching for the true meaning of love, happiness and death. Moore plays the young wife of an aging, dying TV producer whom she married only for the money, and she plays the role with great brilliance. Moore won the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for this character.
Still Alice -2014
The film is written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, and is based on the novel by Lisa Genova, and stars Alec Baldwin , Kristen Stewart , Kate Bosworth, and Hunter Parrish.
Many critics described Moore’s role in this film as the role of her lifetime, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this touching film. Moore played the role of Alice Howland, a linguistics professor, whose life was turned upside down after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Despite her best efforts to delay its symptoms and her desperate attempts to live with it, she was unable to stop the devastating progression of the disease, which struck her when she was only in her forties. She sadly begins to inform everyone around her of the truth about her illness and try to live with it. Moore also won BAFTA, SAG, Critics Choice, and Golden Globe awards for this role.
Game Change -2012
American drama film based on the events of the 2008 United States presidential campaign of John McCain. The film was directed by Jay Roach and written by Danny Strong, based on the book of the same name, which documents the campaign by political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. The film stars Julianne Moore , Woody Harrelson, and Ed Harris, and focuses on the performance of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (Moore) who becomes Senator John McCain’s (Harris) running mate in the presidential campaign. It revolves around a 2010 interview with the campaign’s chief strategist Steve Schmidt (Harrelson).
The film was critically acclaimed, particularly for Moore’s performance , and won a Directors Guild of America Award, three Golden Globe Awards , a Producers Guild of America Award, and five Primetime Emmy Awards.
Children of Men- 2006
A 2006 action drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, based on the 1992 novel Children of Men by P.D. James. The film takes place in the year 2027, when the world is plagued by a period of injustice, corruption, destruction, wars, and depression that invades all sides, and humanity is facing the threat of extinction. Then, refugees begin to seek safe haven in the United Kingdom, among them is government worker Theo Farron, who tries to help refugee K escape the chaos.
Moore co- stars with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris, Charlie Hunnam, and Michael Caine. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing, and was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, winning Best Cinematography, Best Design, and Best Science Fiction Film. In 2016, it was voted 13th among the 100 best films of the 21st century by 117 film critics from around the world.
