Beginners

Beginners

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Coming Out | Cancer

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  • Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Comedy
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Mike Mills, Rod Smith
  • Cast(s): Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Cosmo, Goran Visnjic See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 45min
  • Music: Leslie Shatz,Brian Reitzell,Dave Palmer,Susumu Tokunow,Roger Neill
  • Award(s): Oscar 2012 (Won)
    NYFCC 2011 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: My Oxford Year, Pillion
  • Story:
    A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
    Full Story
7.2/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Ratings

7.2/10

IMDb

AWARDS

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Won
Oscar Award

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | 2012 | Christopher

Golden Globe Award

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 2012 | Christopher

BAFTA Film Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Gold Derby Film Award

Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

GLAAD Media Award

Outstanding Film Wide Release | 2012

IFC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

NTFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Independent Spirit Award

Best Supporting Male | 2012 | Christopher

OFTA Film Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

OFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

DFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

Critics Choice Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Heterodox Award

2012 | Mike

Chlotrudis Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Modern Master Award

2012 | Christopher

COFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Actor Award

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | 2012 | Christopher

VFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Movies for Grownups Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

EDA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Gotham Independent Film Award

Best Ensemble Performance | 2011 | Ewan

Best Feature | 2011 | Dean

Hollywood Film Award

Supporting Actor of the Year | 2011 | Christopher

IFJA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

ICP Award

Best Supporting Performance | 2011 | Christopher

KCFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

Best Screenplay Original | 2011 | Mike

LAFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

NBR Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

Top Ten Independent Films | 2011

TFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

SEFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

SDFCS Award

Best Editing | 2011 | Olivier Bugge

ACCA Award

Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 2011 | Christopher

DFWFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

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Nominations
NYFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

ALFS Award

Supporting Actor of the Year | 2012 | Christopher

NSFC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Independent Spirit Award

Best Feature | 2012 | Jay Van

Best Screenplay | 2012 | Mike

Best Director | 2012 | Mike

COFCA Award

Best Overlooked Film | 2012 | Mike

EDA Award

Best Writing Original Screenplay | 2012 | Mike

ICS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Dorian Award

LGBTThemed Film of the Year | 2012

Film Performance of the Year | 2012 | Christopher

INOCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

Best Original Screenplay | 2012 | Mike

IOFCP Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Christopher

VVFP Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

WAFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

Golden Schmoes Award

Best Supporting Actor of the Year | 2011 | Christopher

UFCA Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2011 | Mike

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

HFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

Audience Award

Spotlight Premiere | 2011 | Mike

SLFCA Award

Best ArtisticCreative Film for excellence in arthouse cinema | 2011

Satellite Award

Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 2011 | Christopher

CFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

SDFCS Award

Best Screenplay Original | 2011 | Mike

Best Supporting Actor | 2011 | Christopher

Best Supporting Actress | 2011 | Mélanie

PFCS Award

Best Screenplay Original | 2011 | Mike

Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 2011 | Christopher

DFCS Award

Best Screenplay | 2011 | Mike

BOX OFFICE

Budget 3,200,000 USD

Box Office Collection 14,311,701 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The film is partly autobiographical, in that many of the events that happen to Hal and Oliver are based on Mike Mills' own father having begun a gay relationship after Mike's mother died.

Ewan McGregor was not a dog owner before he made the film. During the course of the shoot, he decided that he absolutely had to get a dog and is now the proud owner of a poodle named Sid.

At 82 years of age, Christopher Plummer won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film and became the oldest person to ever win an Oscar for acting.

Mike Mills did not originally intend for Anna to be French, but after asking Mélanie Laurent if she could completely lose her accent and finding out she could not, he changed the character for her.

The laryngitis idea used at the costume party is based on a true story that happened to Lou Taylor Pucci, star of Mike Mills' previous film Thumbsucker (2005). Pucci had lost his voice at an audition for Across the Universe (2007) and had indeed gone to a party where he conversed with a girl that he met via a notepad.

Popular Dialogues

"Anna: Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go? Oliver: Maybe because I... I don't really believe that it's gonna work, and then I make sure that it doesn't work."

"Hal: Well, let's say... Oliver: Arthur, down! Hal: ...let's say since you were little, and... and you... you always dreamed of... of someday getting a lion, and you wait and you wait and you wait and you wait, and the lion doesn't come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe. Oliver: I'd wait for the lion. Hal: That's why I worry about you."