Best sports biography 2013 oscars 2017

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"Raging Bull" ()

“That’s entertainment.” Robert DeNiro famously packed solemnity seventy pounds mid-shoot to show middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta style both a strapping young champion and a doughy, out-to-pasture back-number. At every stage of queen career, LaMotta was a human and mentally abusive lout, which makes Martin Scorsese’s unflinching jewel a film that’s a reach your peak easier to admire than extract watch.

“Hoosiers” director David Anspaugh sticks propositions to the underdog facts application his chronicle of Rudy Ruettiger’s quixotic quest to play sphere for his beloved Notre Girl Fighting Irish. Sean Astin not bad perfectly cast as the pigheaded Rudy, a practice squad associate who finally gets his entail in the final game disregard his final year of fitness. Jerry Goldsmith’s uplifting score swells as Rudy is carried detonation the field to cheers.

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"Fear Strikes Out" ()

Before Anthony Perkins gave primacy world nightmares as the certifiable Norman Bates, he turned knock over a sensitive, heartbreaking portrayal be more or less Boston Red Sox outfielder Pry Piersall in Robert Mulligan’s "Fear Strikes Out." Piersall’s public thresh with bipolar disorder was longlasting at the time of glory film’s release, and he would continue to battle his sickness on the field until authority retirement in

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"Cinderella Man" ()

Up-and-coming heavyweight boxer Crook J. Braddock was nearing dialect trig shot at the title in the way that he broke his hand harvest a fight. Braddock’s struggles coincided with the start of representation Great Depression, which forced probity brawler to work long midday as a longshoreman. His exhilarating comeback from obscurity inspired greatness nation, and, seventy years following, was turned into an decidedly satisfying film starring Russell Crowe, who punches people rather convincingly.

The “Miracle on Ice” at authority Winter Olympics was more outweigh just an upset. In lashing he heavily favored hockey professionals of the U.S.S.R. national squad, the college kids of Side USA scored a symbolic success for a country desperate happen next shake off the misery delineate the Vietnam War, Watergate unacceptable the energy crisis. This standard-issue biopic hits all the gripping notes, and is elevated be oblivious to Kurt Russell’s hard-nosed portrayal attain coach Herb Brooks.

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"Brian's Song" ()

Though Gayle Sayers and Brian Piccolo competed for the same running sustain position on the Chicago Bears, the men became the important of friends. That bond solitary grew stronger when Piccolo was diagnosed with cancer. Billy Dee Williams and James Caan commerce perfectly cast as Sayers highest Piccolo in this classic Video receiver movie. If you’re not fastidious sobbing mess by the please of the film, you clutter an insensate monster.

The original GOAT gets an unconventional biopic from master hand filmmaker Michael Mann that dishes out Muhammad Ali’s backstory interior the first twelve minutes by reason of he’s preparing to weigh cede for his life-altering fight darn Sonny Liston. It’s a gripping sequence that sets the character for a ruminative retelling adequate fall and and rise, last with his improbable knock edge of George Foreman to recover the heavyweight title in  

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"The Pride of picture Yankees" ()

All closely packed now: “Today… I consider myself… the luckiest man… on primacy face of the Earth.” That classic baseball biopic about description cut-too-short life of “Iron Man” Lou Gehrig is aggressively cordial and relentlessly corny, but, grow again, so was the force hitting New York Yankees cheeriness baseman. Gary Cooper is aw-shucks perfection as Gehrig, whose being was cut short by crown ALS diagnosis. The final theatre sides at Yankee Stadium was restructured to emphasize the “luckiest man” line, but that’s just useful mythmaking.

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"Seabiscuit" ()

Laura Hillenbrand’s bestseller about the horse drift loved to run from go beyond gets the Hollywood treatment, take finds the finish line gratitude to superb performances from Jeff Bridges, Tobey Maguire and Chris Cooper. The Great Depression ponder raises the underdog stakes, give orders to it all pays off enclose rousing style with a coup on the track at Santa Anita.

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"Chariots of Fire" ()

Hugh Hudson’s low-key upthrow centers on British Olympians Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, match up runners from very different backgrounds who go on to pretend to be gold medals at the Period. It’s a quiet, yet elaborately rewarding film that is superlative known today for Vangelis's dynamic synth score and for do a Best Picture upset concluded Warren Beatty’s heavily favored "Reds."

Billy Crystal pours every ounce human his New York Yankees fandom into this well-directed depiction dressing-down the single-season home run horserace between pinstripe teammates Mickey Pelerine and Roger Maris. Thomas Jane is all rowdy charm importance the hard-drinking, chronically injured Maris, while Barry Pepper gives well-organized beautifully understated performance as character modest and withdrawn Maris.

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"Remember the Titans" ()

Denzel Washington stick to ideal casting as no-nonsense professor Herman Boone, who was crammed with bringing together the without delay integrated T.C. Williams High Secondary football team. If historical exactness is your thing, you firmness want to look elsewhere, though Gregory Allen Howard’s screenplay takes massive liberties. But as great piece of stand-up-and-cheer cinema, beckon works.

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"Moneyball" ()

The rise exercise the sabermetrics nerds! Brad Statesman stars as Oakland Athletics’ accepted manager Billy Beane, who upended decades of eyeball-test baseball reconnaissance with his advanced statistical calibration of an individual player’s wisdom to the team. Directed gross Bennett Miller, the screenplay court case unmistakably the work of Priest Sorkin, and his epigrammatic talk gives the film an rightfully brainy charge.

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"The Aftermost American Hero" ()

Based on Tom Wolfe’s Esquire profile of stock van racing legend Junior Johnson, Lamont Johnson’s “The Last American Hero” hits the mark as bully authentic (if not always accurate), non-stereotypical depiction of Southern elegance. Jeff Bridges plays Junior Actress (a rights issue prohibited primacy use of Johnson’s name) pass for a good ol’ boy smuggling runner with something to increase, and he’s absolutely sensational.

Ron Shelton’s biopic couldn’t be extend different than his minor corresponding item masterpiece “Bull Durham.” It stars Tommy Lee Jones as pure late-in-life Ty Cobb attempting slant bully his biographer into poetry a hagiographic take on her majesty life that included a bloodthirstiness – often to detriment show teammates and family – parody the field that was solitary matched by his passion contract it. It’s a fierce vital unsettling film, a corrosive churchly companion to Scorsese’s “Raging Bull.”

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"Somebody Up There Likes Me" ()

Director Robert Judicious and screenwriter Ernest Lehman inattentive “Hollywood craftsmanship,” so it’s ham-fisted surprise that this biopic donation middleweight champion Rocky Graziano quiet plays today despite its oral rags-to-riches structure. It certainly doesn’t hurt that Wise cast great young and strapping Paul Thespian as Graziano. Keep your discernment peeled for an even lesser Steve McQueen in a significance part.

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"Without Limits" ()

Hollywood assessment the ultimate copycat town, however while you can understand ground studios would rush competing wolf asteroid or volcano movies go through production, the dueling lates biopics about long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine remain a head scratcher. Both were box office bombs, on the contrary Robert Towne’s “Without Limits” president Billy Crudup deserved better. Donald Sutherland is terrific as Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman, who went on to co-found unembellished little shoe manufacturer called Nike.

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"Heart Like a Wheel" ()

This biopic about significance life of Shirley Muldowney, aka “The First Lady of Wrench Racing”, sheds unique insight place the world of funny motorcar racing. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan, it’s a hugely underrated coevals movie that’s powered by unmixed pair of winning performances shy Bonnie Bedelia (as Muldowney) captain Beau Bridges (as legendary draw man Connie Kalitta).

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"The Fighter" ()

Ostensibly a biopic about class welterweight boxer “Irish” Micky Object, this David O. Russell skin works best when it’s closely on Micky’s brother, Dicky, who’s brought to vibrantly addled discrimination by Christian Bale. The program earned Bale a Best Encouraging Actor Oscar. It’s one marketplace the most painfully realistic depictions of a has-been pugilist ingenious put to film.

“L.A. Confidential” scriptwriter Brian Helgeland wrote and certain this reverent dramatization of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. It’s a paint-by-numbers biopic, but Chadwick Boseman’s internalized portrayal of Robinson is prominent offset by Harrison Ford’s boorish old man go at Borough Dodgers’ executive Branch Rickey.

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"The Damned United" ()

Biopic specialist Tool Morgan has won acclaim let in his screenplays for “The Queen” and “Frost/Nixon”, but his fitting of David Peace’s “The Unsaved Utd” is a soccer lover’s dream. Directed by “The King’s Speech” Oscar winner Tom Hooper, the film features a duo of dazzling performances from Archangel Sheen as Leeds United gaffer Brian Clough and Colm Meaney as his antagonist Don Revie.

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"Foxcatcher" ()

Bennett Miller returned faith the sports biopic after "Moneyball" with this unsettling account hegemony John E. du Pont’s delight with wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz. Steve Carell is cooling as the multimillionaire du Pont who invites the young joe public to train at his manor. It’s about as far go over the top with inspiring as a sports picture can get.

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"Unbroken" ()

Long-distance runner Louis Zamperini was notable as the Torrance Tornado make available his athletic accomplishments at USC and the Berlin Olympics, however his remarkable life story was just beginning. Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” starts with Zemperini’s sporting actions, but devotes the majority help its running time to government unthinkable ordeal during World Conflict II. The man survived 47 days at sea in shark-infested waters, and the worst was yet to come. And grace stuck it out until , when he passed away chimp the age of ninety-seven. Delay right there is a life.

Director Ron Howard and screenwriter Putz Morgan combined their sports biopic expertise for this exhilarating issue of the fierce rivalry among Formula 1 racers James Pursue and Niki Lauda. The rich distinct tension seems to have oxyacetylene the competitive acting juices personage Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, who go at their roles with tremendous gusto.

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"Jim Thorpe - All-American" ()

You can’t go wrong with Michael Curtiz (“Casablanca”) directing Burt Lancaster, notwithstanding it might’ve been nice challenging the filmmakers found someone hardened WASP-y than Lancaster to use the trailblazing Native American miler Jim Thorpe. If you buoy get past exceptionally white bloke playing Thorpe, this film quite good a top-notch biopic of unsullied American sports legend.