Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals is a 2016 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Tom Ford. It stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Sheen. The plot follows an art gallery owner as she reads the new novel written by her first husband. The film premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2016 and was released in North America on November 18, 2016.
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Nocturnal Animals is a 2016 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Tom Ford. It stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Sheen. The plot follows an art gallery owner as she reads the new novel written by her first husband and begins to see the similarities between it and their former relationship. The film premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2016 and was released in North America on November 18, 2016, by Focus Features. It received largely positive reviews, with praise for the performances of Shannon, Adams, Gyllanhaal and Taylor- Johnson, and grossed over USD 32 million worldwide. Nocturnal Animals was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice International film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize.
It also received nine BAFTA Award nominations and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay, plus a Best Supporting Actor win for Taylor-johnson. It was announced in March 2015 that Smoke House Pictures’ partners George Clooney and Grant Heslov would produce a thriller, based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel Tony and Susan, which was set to be Tom Ford’s first feature film. Tom Ford said that the film was based on his own concept of storytelling and that he wanted to make a film that was more about storytelling than about the characters. He also said that he had no intention of making the film a biopic of Leonardo DiCaprio, who he had previously worked with on “The Godfather” and “Django Unchained” The film was directed by Ford and co-written by Ford, who also co-wrote the screenplay for “The Squid and the Whale”
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