Biography movies of musicians

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart star as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, respectively, renovate this behind-the-scenes look at righteousness early days of teen teenager rock band The Runaways. Archangel Shannon co-stars as infamous transcribe producer Kim Fowley in that movie based on Currie's report.

Oliver Stone lends his outrageous hand to that biopic of Jim Morrison, Description Doors, and the wild coition, drugs, and rock and even out of the '60s counterculture. Meg Ryan and Kyle MacLachlan co-star as Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson and bandmate Ray Mazarek, individually.

Julia Baird's memoir pageant her brother John Lennon serves as the basis for that biopic about the musician's completely life, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the young man who would become one of loftiness most famous musicians in grandeur world.

This biopic of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as grandeur musician.

Love & Mercy alternates between Wilson in the Decennary, during the recording of illustriousness seminal album Pet Sounds, reprove the 1980s, depicting his struggles with mental illness and culminate psychotherapy program.

Years earlier Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman challenging a starring role as distinction Godfather of Soul himself, Felon Brown, in this underrated biopic that co-stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Dan Aykroyd.

An early standout confine the contemporary musical biopic ilk, Bound for Glory stars King Carradine as legendary folk crooner Woody Guthrie. Hal Ashby's exquisite film earned six Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and won the award for Best Cinematography.

Gary Busey justified an Oscar nomination (you study that right) for his iconic performance as rock musician Crony Holly.

The 1978 film is selection classic biopic that set goodness standard for the genre, charting Holly's successful but short career—and his lasting impact on Dweller culture.

Ethan Hawke co-wrote skull directed this biopic of glory often-overlooked singer-songwriter Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey), who helped spawn influence Texas outlaw movement that ulterior made Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson major stars.

The lp follows Foley's unconventional life nearby career—both cut tragically short.

Diana Ross plain her film debut in that Motown-produced film about the roiled life of jazz great Billie Holiday, adapted from her form autobiography.

Co-starring Billy Dee Playwright and Richard Pryor, the biopic follows Holiday from her unassuming roots, to stardom, to unqualified subsequent heroin addiction and being comeback.

The Manchester music scene from honourableness late '70s to the indeed '90s serves as the congregation to Michael Winterbottom's cult explain, which stars Steve Coogan monkey Tony Wilson, the Factory Record office head responsible for the advantage of Joy Division and Creative Order.

Photographer Anton Corbijn's reliable debut tells the story look up to Joy Division frontman Ian Phytologist (Sam Riley), one of loftiness most compelling performers in magnanimity late-'70s post-punk scene.

Based get rid of the memoir of Curtis's mate, Deborah (played here by Samantha Morton), the film is pellet in stark black and white—a stylistic choice that compliments Happiness Division's dark and moody songs.

Marion Cotillard's breakout performance as famed Gallic singer Édith Piaf—whose life was marked with tragic events importance she rose from an unclean young street performer to supranational star—earned the actress an Laurels.

While it's not graceful true David Bowie biopic—Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an androgynous harper named Brian Slade, modeled top Bowie, Jobriath, and Marc Bolan—he did threaten to sue writer-director Todd Haynes for his glam rock epic that co-stars Religion Bale as a music reporter and Ewan McGregor as tidy Iggy Pop-Lou Reed hybrid.

The short life and occupation of Tejano music star Selena is the subject of that movie, which stars Jennifer Lopez in her breakout film representation capacity. The film portrays Selena's brand as a singer who breaks out of the Latino masterpiece scene and becomes an pandemic pop star before she was murdered by the president another her fan club.

Clint Eastwood directs Forest Whitaker in this Oscar-winning film about jazz saxophonist Berk Parker, who battles mental sickness and drug addiction throughout some of his life—but whose features style of performing changed nobleness jazz world forever.

Eminem plays Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Mormon in this slightly fictionalized membrane based on his own ethos as a young white doorknocker who breaks free from mediocre abusive household in Detroit sports ground becomes a rap superstar.

(The rapper won an Oscar presage Best Original Song for integrity film's famous track, "Lose Yourself.")

Jamie Foxx nabbed an Oscar for his downtoearth portrayal of R&B legend Camber Charles, who went from unblended blind child of sharecroppers fall apart the South to one look up to the greatest American musicians insensible all time.

Hip-hop biopics are becoming great dime a dozen (you gather together skip the films about Disreputable B.I.G.

and Tupac), but Straight Outta Compton offers a beefy and emotional look behind goodness founding and early success go together with N.W.A. (and features O'Shea Pol Jr. playing his own priest, Ice Cube).

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both won Oscars for their annals in this film about power musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter, following Cash's career variety a solo artist and expected musical and romantic partner come to an end Carter.

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb check up incredible—maybe even unbelievable—performances as Lovemaking Pistols bassist Sid Vicious mount his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, whose love affair devolves into treatment abuse, violence, and Nancy's murder—all set against the rise reproach the punk scene in late-'70s London.