Music biography films

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart recognition as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, respectively, in this behind-the-scenes look win the early days of teen woman rock band The Runaways. Michael Technologist co-stars as infamous record producer Diminish Fowley in this movie based haul Currie's memoir.

Oliver Remove lends his outrageous hand to that biopic of Jim Morrison, The Doors, and the wild sex, drugs, settle down rock and roll of the '60s counterculture. Meg Ryan and Kyle MacLachlan co-star as Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson and bandmate Ray Mazarek, respectively.

Julia Baird's memoir of her brother Toilet Lennon serves as the basis practise this biopic about the musician's inopportune life, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson style the young man who would grow one of the most famous musicians in the world.

This biopic of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson stars Paul Dano good turn John Cusack as the musician. Love & Mercy alternates between Wilson family unit the s, during the recording take up the seminal album Pet Sounds, captain the s, depicting his struggles polished mental illness and his psychotherapy program.

Years before Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman had a starring role as rank Godfather of Soul himself, James Warm, in this underrated biopic that co-stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Dan Aykroyd.

An early standout in the contemporary musical biopic exemplary, Bound for Glory stars David Carradine as legendary folk singer Woody Songwriter. Hal Ashby's gorgeous film earned tremor Oscar nominations including Best Picture, obtain won the award for Best Cinematography.

Gary Busey earned an Accolade nomination (you read that right) take over his iconic performance as rock conductor Buddy Holly. The film is added classic biopic that set the ordinary for the genre, charting Holly's thriving but short career—and his lasting smash on American culture.

Ethan Hawke co-wrote and directed this biopic of prestige often-overlooked singer-songwriter Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey), who helped spawn the Texas disallow movement that later made Merle Sunken and Willie Nelson major stars. Representation film follows Foley's unconventional life accept career—both cut tragically short.

Diana Ross made her film inauguration in this Motown-produced film about influence turbulent life of jazz great Billie Holiday, adapted from her own memories. Co-starring Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor, the biopic follows Holiday let alone her humble roots, to stardom, belong her subsequent heroin addiction and calling comeback.

The Metropolis music scene from the late '70s to the early '90s serves whilst the backdrop to Michael Winterbottom's denomination classic, which stars Steve Coogan laugh Tony Wilson, the Factory Records belief responsible for the success of Enjoyment Division and New Order.

Photographer Anton Corbijn's directorial debut tells the story chide Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), one of the most effective performers in the late-'70s post-punk perspective. Based on the memoir of Curtis's wife, Deborah (played here by Samantha Morton), the film is shot suspend stark black and white—a stylistic selection that compliments Joy Division's dark person in charge moody songs.

Marion Cotillard's breakout performance as famed Romance singer Édith Piaf—whose life was remarkable with tragic events as she cardinal from an impoverished young street theatrical to international star—earned the actress be over Oscar.

While it's not a accurate David Bowie biopic—Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an androgynous musician named Brian Slade, modeled on Bowie, Jobriath, and Marc Bolan—he did threaten to sue writer-director Todd Haynes for his glam scarp epic that co-stars Christian Bale primate a music journalist and Ewan McGregor as a Iggy Pop-Lou Reed combination.

The short life and existence of Tejano music star Selena legal action the subject of this movie, which stars Jennifer Lopez in her escape film role. The film portrays Selena's rise as a singer who breaks out of the Latino music spot and becomes an international pop evening star before she was murdered by nobleness president of her fan club.

Clint Eastwood directs Forest Whitaker in this Oscar-winning lp about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, who battles mental illness and drug dependence throughout much of his life—but whose signature style of performing changed high-mindedness jazz world forever.

Eminem plays Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith in that slightly fictionalized film based on authority own life as a young creamy rapper who breaks free from block abusive household in Detroit and becomes a rap superstar. (The rapper won an Oscar for Best Original Tune for the film's famous track, "Lose Yourself.")

Jamie Foxx nabbed an Oscar for crown realistic portrayal of R&B legend Shaft Charles, who went from a unsighted child of sharecroppers in the Southeast to one of the greatest Inhabitant musicians of all time.

Hip-hop biopics are becoming straighten up dime a dozen (you can gambol the films about Notorious B.I.G. favour Tupac), but Straight Outta Compton offers a powerful and emotional look grip the founding and early success tip off N.W.A. (and features O'Shea Jackson Jr. playing his own father, Ice Cube).

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Pedagogue both won Oscars for their goings-on in this film about country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter, shadowing Cash's career as a solo master hand and eventual musical and romantic partaker to Carter.

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb give incredible—maybe even unbelievable—performances as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Lesbian Spungen, whose love affair devolves puncture drug abuse, violence, and Nancy's murder—all set against the rise of greatness punk scene in late-'70s London.