Wit

Wit

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  • Genre(s): Drama, TV Movie
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Mike Nichols, Michael Haley, Mark Layton, Beverly Winston
  • Cast(s): Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M. Woodward See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 39min
  • Music: Arvo Pärt,Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki,Marko A. Costanzo,Evyen Klean,Nic Ratner
  • Award(s): Christopher 2002 (Won)
    Golden Globe 2002 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Love at the Ranch, The Sheriff
  • Story:
    A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
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8/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Ratings

8/10

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AWARDS

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Won
Christopher Award

Television Cable | 2002 | Cary

Humanitas Prize Award

Minute or Longer Cable Category | 2001 | Mike

Primetime Emmy Award

Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries Movie or a Special | 2001 | John

Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries Movie or a Special | 2001 | Mike

Outstanding Made for Television Movie | 2001 | Simon

NBR Award

Best Film Made for Cable TV | 2001

OFTA Television Award

Best Motion Picture Made for Television | 2001

Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001 | Emma

Best Actress Award

2001 | Emma

Gold Derby TV Award

TV Movie of the Decade | 2010

OFTA TV Hall of Fame Award

Television Programs | 2019

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Nominations
Golden Globe Award

Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 2002

Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | 2002 | Emma

Gold Derby TV Award

TV MovieMini Actress of the Decade | 2010 | Emma

Golden Satellite Award

Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | 2002 | Emma

Best Motion Picture Made for Television | 2002

PGA Award

Outstanding Producer of LongForm Television | 2002

Actor Award

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries | 2002 | Emma

Critics Choice Award

Best Actress in a Picture Made for Television | 2002 | Emma

OFTA Television Award

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001 | Audra

Best Editing in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001

Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001 | Mike

Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001 | Christopher

Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001 | Emma

Golden Spike Award

Best Film | 2001 | Mike

TCA Award

Outstanding Achievement in Movies Miniseries and Specials | 2001

Primetime Emmy Award

Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Movie | 2001 | Emma

Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries Movie or a Special | 2001 | Leo

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | 2001 | Emma

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | 2001 | Audra

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

This movie is often shown at medical colleges as an example of how doctors and researchers should not behave.

When Margaret Edson wrote the play "Wit" (for which she won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), she was an Atlanta-area kindergarten teacher. In 2010, she shifted to teaching sixth grade at Inman Middle School in Atlanta. "Wit" was the first (and, as of 2012, the only) play she ever wrote. As of the end of the 2020-2021 school year, she remains a sixth-grade social studies teacher at David T. Howard Middle School (the school into which Inman was folded in 2020).

The play "Wit" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999.

To prepare for her role, Dame Emma Thompson shaved her head, following in the footsteps of Kathleen Chalfant and Judith Light, who performed the role of Vivian Bearing on stage.

Patricia Clarkson was considered for the role of Vivian Bearing.

Popular Dialogues

"E.M. Ashford: Do you think that the punctuation of the last line of this sonnet is merely an insignificant detail? The sonnet begins with a valiant struggle with Death calling on all the forces of intellect and drama to vanquish the enemy. But it is ultimately about overcoming the seemingly insuperable barriers separating life death and eternal life. In the edition you choose, this profoundly simple meaning is sacrificed to hysterical punctuation. E.M. Ashford: And Death, Capital D, shall be no more, semi-colon. Death, Capital D comma, thou shalt die, exclamation mark! E.M. Ashford: If you go in for this sort of thing I suggest you take up Shakespeare. E.M. Ashford: Gardner's edition of the Holy Sonnets returns to the Westmoreland manuscript of 1610, not for sentimental reasons I assure you, but because Helen Gardner is a scholar. E.M. Ashford: It reads, "And death shall be no more" comma "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting. E.M. Ashford: Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause. E.M. Ashford: In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma."

"E.M. Ashford: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."