| Award | Category | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 20/20 Awards | Best Director | Jonathan Demme |
| Best Actor | Tom Hanks | |
| Best Original Screenplay | Ron Nyswaner | |
| Best Original Song | "Philadelphia" – Neil Young |
Young wrote this for the Jonathan Demme movie Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer dying of AIDS. Demme first cut the title sequence of Philadelphia to "Southern Man" and asked Young to write a song like it for the movie. Young gave him …
Songfacts®: Director Jonathan Demme used this to open his movie Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer dying of AIDS. Demme met Springsteen in 1985 on the video shoot for " Sun City ," but had not seen him since. Demme first cut the title sequence of Philadelphia to "Southern Man" and asked Neil Young to write a song like it for the movie.
Jan 14, 1994 · In 1993, a very moving piece of music about the plight of AIDS victims was written and performed by rock star Bruce Springsteen for the Hollywood film Philadelphia. The film stars Tom Hanks, who plays dying AIDS victim and young lawyer Andy Beckett who is wrongly fired from his job at a prestigious law firm. Music Player
Jan 14, 1994 · With Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman. When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
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La mamma mortaAlthough he has no analytical skills or training, he intuits how the music in the aria, “La mamma morta”—from his favorite opera, Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier—moves him, and Andy's simple declarations (“Oh, that single cello!”), facial reactions, and bodily motions reveal that he understands the music deeply, ...
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I had occasion today to watch the famous scene in the movie Philadelphia where Tom Hanks listens to Maria Callas sing the “La Mamma Morta” aria from Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier.Jun 3, 2019
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Director Jonathan Demme used this to open his movie Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer dying of AIDS. Demme met Springsteen in 1985 on the video shoot for " Sun City ," but had not seen him since.
Demme loved it and felt it was perfect for his movie just as it was. Springsteen recorded this in his home studio in New Jersey, where he did the entire Nebraska album.
It was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia .
Budget. $26 million. Box office. $206.7 million. Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. It was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia .
Philadelphia premiered in Los Angeles on December 14, 1993 and opened in limited release in four theaters on December 22, before expanding into wide release on January 14, 1994. The LA premiere was a benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles, which netted $250,000 APLA Chair Steve Tisch told the LA Times.
Andrew Beckett is a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia, Wyant, Wheeler, Hellerman, Tetlow and Brown. He hides his homosexuality and his status as an AIDS patient from the other members of the firm. A partner in the firm notices a lesion on Beckett's forehead. Although Beckett attributes the lesion to ...
Bowers was an attorney who, in 1987, sued the law firm Baker McKenzie for wrongful dismissal in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases. Cain was an attorney for Hyatt Legal Services who was fired after his employer found out he had AIDS. He sued Hyatt in 1990, and won just before his death.
Fearing it would compromise his career, lawyer Andrew Beckett hides his homosexuality and HIV status at a powerful Philadelphia law firm. But his secret is exposed when a colleague spots the illness's telltale lesions.
Director Jonathan Demme wanted people not familiar with AIDS to see his film. He felt Bruce Springsteen would bring an audience that would not ordinarily see a movie about a gay man dying of AIDS. The movie and the song "The Streets of Philadelphia" did a great deal to increase AIDS awareness and take some of the stigma off the disease.
The song speaks mainly about pain and abandonment. And this is apparently because the movie it was made for centers on an abandoned homosexual lawyer who dies from AIDS. The film’s objectives included bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS. It also sought to fight the canker of homophobia in the United States.
In 1995, this classic earned Springsteen a total of four victories at the Grammys, including the coveted “Song of the Year” award. It also won him the “Best Rock Song” award.