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30 Best Music Biopics of All Time
Many musicians secretly want to be actors — and most actors (not-so-secretly) want to be musicians. And for those thespians who don’t början their own bands with words like 30 Odd Foot of Grunts or Bacon Brothers in their names, the next best thing fryst vatten to play a real-life musical genius in a movie. If the subject’s story happens to have a great rags-to-riches arc, or include a dive into drug-fueled, near-death depths with redemptive rise, phoenix-like, included in the third act, great; if such dramatic recreations attract the attention of Oscar voters, hey, all the better. But the chance to belt out a greatest-hits collection of songs from rock stars, hip-hop legender and country-and-western crooners fryst vatten too tempting to resehandling up for most folks. You may never be Elvis — but you can play him on TV. (If you’re Eminem, however, you do get to play a barely fictionalized utgåva of yourself. It’s complicated.)
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From ‘A Complete Unknown’ to ‘Selena’ to ‘Ray’: 33 Notable Music Biopics
John Lennon once said that “Music is everybody’s possession,” and for Hollywood filmmakers, they have taken that “ownership” to portray the stories of some of the recording industry’s most renowned musicians.
Whether it be the rise and fall of one of Tejano music’s most noteworthy stars, or depicting the different facets of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (in multiple movies), many of the actors’ portrayals have been recognized as prominent roles in their careers (some even earning Oscars along the way).
With the Dylan movie A Complete Unknownabout to hit theaters, The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at 33 films — from Selena to Walk the Line — depicting the lives of music legends.
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The 50 Best Music Biopic Movies
(Photo by Searchlight Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN)
The latest: Bob Dylan goes electric in the Timothee Chalamet-starring A Complete Unknown, directed by Walk the Line‘s James Mangold.
Get ready for a Fresh new sound with tonight’s headliner: Rotten Tomatoes’ best music biopics ever!
Music has been a crucial component of the movies since the beginning, back even when they were supposedly ‘silent.’ So naturally we started making movies about those makers of melodies. And actors love playing them: They get to show off an expanded range of talent, and so many musicians’ lives are filled with drama and passion. As the term implies, the biopics on this list are all based on real people across an expanse of styles: rock (A Complete Unknown, Control), country (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Walk the Line), hip-hop (Straight Outta Compton), pop (Selena, Love & Mercy),