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Frida is a 2002 biographical film about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, directed by Julie Taymor. It was adapted from Hayden Herrera's 1983 Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas. [1] [2] Actress Salma Hayek was cast as Kahlo, while Alfred Molina portrays her husband Diego Rivera. [1] The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2002, where it competed for the Golden Lion. [3] Frida then went on to play at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festivals. [4] [5] The film received a limited release in the United States from October 25, 2002. [6] As of October 2012, Frida has earned over $56 million in its total worldwide gross at the box office. [7]
Frida garnered various awards and nominations following its release, with most of the nominations recognising Hayek and Molina's performances, composer Elliot Goldenthal's score and the hair and makeup teams. The film received six nominations from the 75th Academy Awards and came away with two awards for Best Makeup and Best Original Score respectively. [8] The American Film Institute placed Frida on their Top Ten Movies of the Year list, as did the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The film received four nominations from the British Academy Film Awards and Judy Chin, Beatrice DeAlba, John E. Jackson and Regina Reyes went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair.
For their performances as Kahlo and Rivera, Hayek and Molina were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor at the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. At the Imagen Awards, Hayek and Molina won Best Actress and Best Actor respectively, while the film won Best Drama Picture. Hayek was also nominated for Best Actress at the 60th Golden Globe Awards and named Best International Actress by the Goldene Kamera. Goldenthal gathered a total of five awards for his score, including a Golden Globe, Satellite Award and the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year. [8] [9] [10] [11] "Burn It Blue", an original song written by Goldenthal and Taymor for the film, earned two award nominations.
Frida's hair stylists and makeup artists earned four nominations at Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, but came away empty handed. Costume designer Julie Weiss won a Satellite Award for Best Costume Design, before going on to garner a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild. Jeremy Dawson and Daniel Schrecker received a nomination for Best Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture from the Visual Effects Society.
Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela Teresa (1989–1991) as well as the romantic drama Midaq Alley (1995). She soon established herself in Hollywood with appearances in films such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West (1999), and Dogma (1999).
The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film. Traditionally, three films have been nominated each year with exceptions in the early 1980s and 2002 when there were only two nominees; in 1999, when there were four nominees. Beginning with the 92nd Academy Awards, five films were nominated.
Julie Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997 and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for her direction and costume design. Her 2002 film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the 2007 jukebox musical film Across the Universe, based on the music of the Beatles.
Frida is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by Julie Taymor which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Alfred Molina is a British and American actor. He is known for his leading roles and character actor roles on the stage and screen. In a career spanning over five decades he has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a British Independent Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.
Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores. A student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, he is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his longtime partner Julie Taymor.
Frida is the original soundtrack album, on the Universal label, of the 2002 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film Frida starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro and Ashley Judd. The original score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal. The soundtrack features songs by various artists.
Sarah Green is an American film producer. She currently sits on the National Board of Directors for the Producers Guild of America. On January 24, 2012, she was nominated for an Academy Award for the film The Tree of Life.
Hayden Herrera is an American author and historian. Her book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo was turned into a movie in 2002 and Herrera's biography Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work was named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Judy Chin is an Academy Award-winning American makeup artist, having won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for The Whale in 2023. With this win, she became the first woman of Asian descent to win the Academy Award in that category.