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Journalist | War Correspondent
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Best Actress | 2019 | Rosamund
Best Original Song Independent Film | 2018 | Annie
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 2019 | Annie
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 2019 | Rosamund
Best Original Song Written for a Film | 2019 | Annie
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in FirstTime Feature Film | 2019 | Matthew
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 2019 | Rosamund
Best Motion Picture Drama (Independent) | 2019
Best Original Song | 2019
Outstanding Achievement in Casting Low Budget Feature Comedy or Drama | 2019 | Jina
Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2019
Best Actress | 2018 | Rosamund
Box Office Collection 3,944,165 USD
In a piece for Harper's Bazaar dated 4 December 2018, war correspondent Janine di Giovanni, who knew Marie Colvin, writes critically of the film: "There were no good guys at the Sunday Times, where Colvin worked, who cared for her well-being. There were instead editors who wanted scoops at the expense of the safety of their reporters. Colvin had many friends in London, but none of them were similar to the Bridget Jones-style girlfriend character (portrayed by Nikki Amuka-Bird) in the film. Her last boyfriend was not a caring and loving Stanley Tucci but rather a man who gave her immense heartache and distress. There were no 'heads on sticks' in Bosnia, as the character meant to be Colvin's first husband, Patrick Bishop, says in one of the opening scenes (heads were on sticks in Chechnya). Colvin's second husband, Juan Carlos Gumucio, is erased from the script altogether, though he played an important role in her life." Although positive about Rosamund Pike's performance, she recommends that her readers watch the documentary Bearing Witness (2005) instead.
Features two Oscar nominees: Pike, Tucci.
Taron Egerton was originally cast but ended up dropping out. Jamie Dornan replaced him.
The film was a last-minute opening gala choice at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) following Galveston (2018) being dropped from the schedule.
Colvin has the book The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn.
"Newspaper Editor: Why is it important, do you think, to see this images? Why is it important for you to be there? Right now you may be one of the only Western journalists in Homs. Our team has just left. Marie Colvin: For an audience for which any conflict is very far away, this is the reality. There are 28,000 civilians, men, women and children, a city of the cold and hungry, starving, defenseless. There are no telephones. The electricity has been cut off. Families are sharing what they have with relatives and neighbors. I have sat with literally hundreds of women with infant children who are trapped in these cold, brutal conditions, unable to feed their children anything other than sugar and water for weeks on end. That little boy was one of the two children who died today. It's what happens every day. The Syrian regime is claiming that they're not hitting civilians, that they're just going after terrorist gangs. But every civilian house has been hit. The top floor of the building I'm in has been totally destroyed. There are no military targets here. It is a complete and utter lie. Newspaper Editor: Well, thank you for using the word " lie ". I think a lot of people wanna thank you, because it's a word we don't often hear, it's not often used, but it is the truth in this case. The Syrian regime, their representatives, have continually lied. They've lied on this program to us directly. Marie, I mean, you have covered a lot of conflicts over a long time. How does this compare? Marie Colvin: This is the worst conflict I've ever seen. It's the worst because it was a peaceful uprising that was crushed by violence. President Assad is sitting in his palace in Damascus in panic, the entire security apparatus his father built crumbling around him, and he is responding in the only way he's been taught how. When he was a child, he watched his father crush oppositions by shelling the city of Hama into ruins and killing 10,000 innocent civilians. He watched, as we're watching, a dictator killing with impunity. And the words on everybody's lips here are, " Why have we been abandoned? ". " Why? ". I don't know why."
"Marie Colvin: I see it, so you don't have to."
