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1995 | Ellen
Best Actress | 1996 | Kathy
Best Motion Picture | 1996 | Tony
1995 | Taylor
Kathy Bates' favorite movie role of her career.
This is the second time Kathy Bates has a leading role in a movie based on a Stephen King work. The first was her Oscar-winning role as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990). King was impressed with Bates after meeting her on the set of "Misery," and wrote the character of Dolores Claiborne with her in mind. Bates also made an uncredited cameo appearance as Rae Flowers, in the TV mini-series adaption of Stephen King's The Stand (1994).
Christopher Plummer's character, Inspector John Mackie, sports a prominent scar on the bridge of his nose. According to the director, Taylor Hackford, he wanted Mackie to look disheveled and careworn, so he asked his costume designer to put him in the worst suits she could find, but without success. Plummer quietly approached Hackford and said, "Taylor, it's impossible for me to look bad in a suit, that's just the way I'm built. But let me do something that will change all that. I'll break my nose." Plummer took an eye-brow pencil and drew a line across the bridge of his nose, and then shaded it to create the illusion of an ugly, permanent scar. Upon seeing the result, Hackford was astounded by Plummer's transformed appearance: "My desired image of Inspector John Mackie suddenly materialized before my eyes."
Judy Parfitt was recommended for the role of Vera by director Taylor Hackford's wife, Helen Mirren. Parfitt, who had largely confined her career to the stage, was virtually unknown to film audiences at the time. After she auditioned with Kathy Bates, Bates reportedly turned to Hackford and gasped "Who was that?" They agreed to cast Parfitt on the spot.
Aerial view of New York buildings seen early in the film is footage from The Godfather Part III (1990).
"Vera Donovan: Sometimes, Dolores... sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch, to survive... Sometimes, being a bitch, is all a woman has to hang onto."
"Vera Donovan: Husbands die every day, Dolores. Why... one is probably dying right now while you're sitting here, weeping... They die, and leave their wives their money... I should know, shouldn't I?... Sometimes they're driving home from their mistress's apartment, and their brakes suddenly fail. An accident, Dolores, can be an unhappy woman's best friend."
