Babylon (2022 film)
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Directed by | Damien Chazelle |
Written by | Damien Chazelle |
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Cinematography | Linus Sandgren |
Edited by | Tom Cross |
Music by | Justin Hurwitz |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 189 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Spanish |
Budget | $78–80 million[2][3][4] |
Box office | $63.4 million[5][6] |
Babylon is a 2022 American
Chazelle began developing Babylon in July 2019, with Lionsgate Films as the frontrunner to acquire the project. It was announced that Paramount Pictures had acquired worldwide rights in November 2019. Much of the main cast joined the project between January 2020 and August 2021, and filming took place in Los Angeles from July to October 2021.
Babylon premiered at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles on November 14, 2022, and was released in the United States on December 23, 2022. It was met with a polarized response from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $63 million against a production budget of $78–80 million and losing Paramount $87 million. It received five nominations at the 80th Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, winning Best Original Score), three nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards, and three nominations at the 95th Academy Awards.
Plot
In 1926
Also attending are
Nellie quickly becomes an "it girl" covered by gossip columnist Elinor St. John, who also follows Jack's career. As sound film displaces silents in the late-1920s, Manny skillfully adapts to technical changes. At Sidney's suggestion, he successfully pitches a series of films starring Sidney and a brand new orchestra to Irving Thalberg. As a result, Manny gains even greater power and influence in the industry, eventually becoming a producer and studio executive. Nellie struggles to navigate sound film's demands (one cameraman dies filming her), and increases her drug use and reckless gambling, tarnishing her reputation despite Manny's assistance.
Nellie, shown to have an institutionalized mother, eggs on her drunken father (and inept business-manager) Robert to publicly fight a rattlesnake during a party; he passes out. Nellie fights the snake, which bites her neck; Fay kills it and sucks out the venom. Nellie passionately kisses her.
By 1932, Jack begins to sense that his popularity has waned, but still works in low-budget Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films. As Hollywood becomes less libertine, executives tell Manny to fire Fay, a Kinoscope title writer, because of her perceived lesbianism. While practicing lines with new wife Estelle, Jack is devastated to learn his longtime friend/producer, George Munn, has committed suicide.
Elinor and Manny attempt to revamp Nellie's image and ingratiate her into Hollywood's high society, but at a party with William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies, Nellie lashes out against upper-class snobbery, vomiting on Hearst. Jack finds Elinor's cover story about his declining popularity and confronts her; she explains that although his star has faded, he will be immortalized on film. Sidney is offended when studio executives convince Manny to request he don blackface for Southern audiences; he leaves Kinoscope to perform live in black establishments. Jack encounters Fay at a hotel party; she reveals her departure for Europe and Pathé. Afterwards, in his hotel room, a despondent Jack fatally shoots himself.
Eccentric gangster James McKay threatens Nellie's life over her massive gambling debts. Manny initially rejects her distraught pleas for help, but later secures funds from the movie-set drug-pusher/aspiring actor "The Count", and visits James with him to pay off Nellie's debt. Manny panics upon learning the money is counterfeit, made by his own prop-maker. James invites the men to a subterranean gathering-space for depraved zoosadist parties, raving about potential film ideas. When James realizes the cash is counterfeit, he attempts to kill them, but they narrowly escape, killing James's henchman Wilson.
Manny asks Nellie to flee with him to Mexico, marry, and start a new life. She initially resists, but eventually agrees. James's associate tracks Manny down, killing The Count and his roommate. Upon seeing Manny urinate himself, the henchmen take pity and agree to spare Manny's life if he leaves Los Angeles. While Manny gathers their belongings, Nellie reneges on her decision and dances away into the night. A montage of newspaper clippings reveals Elinor's death at age 76, and Nellie's death from a drug overdose at 34.
In 1952, Manny returns to California with his wife Silvia and young daughter, having fled to New York City and established a radio shop. He shows them the Kinoscope Studios entrance, then visits a nearby cinema alone to see Singin' in the Rain, whose depiction of the industry's transition from silents to talkies, albeit sanitized, moves him to tears. A century-spanning series of vignettes from various films follows. As the focus returns to Singin', Manny tearfully smiles.
Cast
- Brad Pitt as Jack Conrad
- Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy
- Diego Calva as Manny Torres
- Jean Smart as Elinor St. John
- Jovan Adepo as Sidney Palmer
- Li Jun Li as Lady Fay Zhu
- P. J. Byrne as Max
- Lukas Haas as George Munn
- Olivia Hamilton as Ruth Adler
- Max Minghella as Irving Thalberg
- Rory Scovel as The Count
- Katherine Waterston as Estelle
- Tobey Maguire as James McKay
- Flea as Bob Levine
- Jeff Garlin as Don Wallach
- Eric Roberts as Robert Roy
- Ethan Suplee as Wilson
- Samara Weaving as Constance Moore
- Olivia Wilde as Ina Conrad
- Spike Jonze as Otto Von Strassberger
- Telvin Griffin as Reggie
- Chloe Fineman as Marion Davies
- Phoebe Tonkin as Jane Thornton
- Troy Metcalf as Orville Pickwick
- Jennifer Grant as Mildred Yates
- Patrick Fugit as Officer Elwood
- Pat Skipper as William Randolph Hearst
- Kaia Gerber as Starlet
- Cyrus Hobbi as Footballer
- Karen Bethzabe as Silvia Torres
- Sarah Ramos as Harriet Rothschild
- Alexandre Chen as James Wong Howe
- Taylor Hill as Rebecca
- John Mariano as Master of ceremonies
- Mather Zickel as Distribution executive
- Albert Hammond Jr. as Guest in chicken line
- Joe Dallesandro as Charlie the photographer
- Marc Platt as Producer
Production
Development
It was announced in July 2019 that
By December 2020, Margot Robbie was in early negotiations to replace Stone, who exited the film due to scheduling conflicts, and Li Jun Li was also cast.[11][12] Robbie was confirmed in March 2021, with Jovan Adepo and Diego Calva also joining.[10][13]
In June,
Filming
Filming was originally set to take place in California in mid-2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It began on July 1, 2021 and wrapped on October 21, 2021.[16][20][21][22][23] Shea's Castle was used for the exterior shots of the mansion in the opening party scene, and interiors were shot inside the Ace Hotel Los Angeles. The movie ranch, Blue Sky Ranch, served as Kinescope Studios.[24]
Music
Justin Hurwitz, a frequent collaborator of Chazelle, composed the film's score. Two tracks from the score, "Call Me Manny" and "Voodoo Mama," were released digitally on November 10, 2022, the latter track being used to underscore the film's first trailer. The soundtrack album was released by Interscope Records on December 9, 2022.[25]
Themes
In an essay for
Lisa Laman of Collider observed that Babylon functions as a rumination on how human beings try to outrun and ignore their innate mortality, pointing to the various nonchalant depictions of death (such as a newscaster's casual account of the suicide of a female Jack Conrad fan) as an especially discernible example of this thematic element. Laman also pointed to a key scene in the middle of Babylon concerning Conrad briefly being overwhelmed by the death of his friend George Munn before returning to his default unflappable persona to be another key instance of the feature functioning as a tragic meditation on people trying to evade the inevitable presence of death.[27]
Release
Theatrical
Babylon was first screened for critics and industry people on November 14, 2022, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles and in New York City the following day.[28] It was released on December 23, 2022.[29] The film was initially scheduled for a December 25, 2021, limited release and a January 7, 2022, wide release,[8] but was later delayed by an entire year, with a December 25, 2022, limited release, and a January 6, 2023, wide release, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[30] In October, the film was moved two days earlier to the current date and set for a solely wide release instead.[31]
Home media
The film was released on
Marketing
The first
As Maggie Dela Paz notes at ComingSoon.net, "a brand new behind-the scenes featurette ...highlight[ing] Chazelle’s ensemble cast of A-list stars and familiar supporting actors[, and] also featur[ing] commentary from the Oscar-nominated director as he talks about the challenge of handling this massive cast" was released on December 29, 2022.[42]
Reception
Box office
Babylon grossed $15.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $48 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $63.4 million.[6][5] Deadline Hollywood noted that with a combined production and promotion budget of around $160 million, Babylon would need to gross $250 million worldwide in order to break-even.[43] The site ultimately calculated the film lost the studio $87.4 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.[44]
In the United States and Canada, Babylon was released alongside
In Europe, the film took $3.3 million on its opening weekend in France and $1.6 million (£1.3 million) in the United Kingdom, coming second and third respectively at the box office.[48]
Critical response
According to IndieWire and The Hollywood Reporter, as well as the opinion of Chazelle himself, response to the film was "polarized".[49][50] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Babylon holds an approval rating of 57% based on 361 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Babylon's overwhelming muchness is exhausting, but much like the industry it honors, its well-acted, well-crafted glitz and glamour can often be an effective distraction."[51] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 63 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[52] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 74% of audience members gave the film a positive score, with 47% saying they would definitely recommend it.[4]
In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle praised Chazelle's ambition and direction, writing that "Babylon is what movie love really looks like."[53] THR's David Rooney described it as a "syncopated concentration of hedonistic revelry", praising the cast performances, score, cinematography, costume and production design, but criticizing the screenplay and direction—ultimately concluding "it’s hard to imagine the overstuffed yet insubstantial Babylon finding its way into many screen-classic montages".[54] Conversely, Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood wrote that "it is guaranteed to be a movie that will stay in your head", commending the direction, production design, and performances.[55]
In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw assigned the film three stars out of five, applauding the performances of Robbie and Pitt for elevating "a story in no hurry to engage with the true-life nastiness of its era".[56] Writing for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson concurred with Bradshaw's sentiment, stating: "These are little islands in a sea of mannered chaos, but it begins to feel, as Babylon stretches out across three hours and eight minutes, that Chazelle has no clear idea where all of this is going."[57] In a scathing review for Time, Stephanie Zacharek highlighted Jun Li's performance, but criticized Chazelle's screenplay and direction, summarizing: "Babylon is a manic sprawl that only pretends to celebrate cinema. It's really about prurience, dumb sensation, self-congratulation and willful ignorance of history."[58]
In his review for
Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised Chazelle's storytelling and characters, but criticized other aspects of his screenplay, ultimately concluding: "Artistically, what Babylon adds to the classic Hollywood that it celebrates is sex and nudity, drugs and violence, a more diverse cast, and a batch of kitchen-sink chaos that replaces the whys and wherefores of coherent thought with the exhortation to buy a ticket, cast one's eyes up to the screen, and worship in the dark."[61] John Mulderig of The Catholic Review says, "Along the way, Robbie effervesces, Pitt charms and Calva smolders and endures. Yet Chazelle's depiction of Tinseltown's behind-the-scenes decadence takes needless explicitness to the point of obscenity. [He] repeatedly references ...Singin' in the Rain, which unfolds in the same place and time. But comparisons with that beloved classic only highlight the ugliness of his own portrayal of human debasement."[62]
Despite the polarizing response, later critical and public reevaluation has tended to focus more on the film's strengths while deeming it as a misunderstood masterpiece. Author Stephen King praised the film, calling it "utterly brilliant–extravagant, over the top, hilarious, thought-provoking" and "one of those movies that reviews badly and is acclaimed as a classic in 20 years."[63] In August 2023, IndieWire ranked the film's score at number 15 on its list of "The 40 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century," writing "Filled with booming trumpets and epic saxophone solos, it’s a truly epic score, perfectly fitting the changing world of ’20s and ’30s Los Angeles perfectly. But it’s the way the score builds upon its motifs and elements from song to song, that makes its special."[64] In June 2024, Collider ranked it number 30 on its list of the "30 Best Movies of the 2020s So Far," with Jeremy Urquhart writing "It's another movie of his [Chazelle] about passion, a desire for greatness, and the ups and downs of pursuing one's dreams, only this time the scope is epic, with such an approach taken to investigating Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, instead of just one or two people, like his smaller/more personal movies. Babylon is dazzling from a technical perspective and has some of the best music composed for a movie in recent memory. It challenges, provokes, celebrates, and condemns all at once. It's overwhelming and messy, but history will likely be kind to it."[65]
Accolades
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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Chicago Film Critics Association[66] | December 14, 2022 | Best Cinematography | Linus Sandgren | Nominated |
Best Best Editing | Tom Cross | Nominated | ||
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won | ||
Best Costume Design | Mary Zophres | Nominated | ||
Best Art Direction/Production Design | Babylon | Nominated | ||
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association[67]
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December 18, 2022 | Best Score | Justin Hurwitz | Nominated |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association[68] | December 19, 2022 | Best Picture | Babylon | 9th place |
Florida Film Critics Circle[69] | December 22, 2022 | Best Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won |
Best Art Direction / Production Design | Babylon | Won | ||
Best Ensemble | Runner-up | |||
San Diego Film Critics Society[70] | January 6, 2023 | Best Cinematography | Linus Sandgren | Won |
Best Costumes | Mary Zophres | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin | Won | ||
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle[71] | January 9, 2023 | Best Cinematography | Linus Landgren | Nominated |
Best Film Editing | Tom Cross | Nominated | ||
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino | Nominated | ||
Austin Film Critics Association[72] | January 10, 2023 | Best Cinematography | Linus Sandgren | Nominated |
Best Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won | ||
Golden Globe Awards[73] | January 10, 2023 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Babylon | Nominated |
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
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Diego Calva | Nominated | ||
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
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Margot Robbie | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Brad Pitt | Nominated | ||
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won | ||
Georgia Film Critics Association[74] | January 13, 2023 | Best Original Score | Runner-up | |
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino | Won | ||
Critics' Choice Movie Awards[75] | January 15, 2023 | Best Picture | Babylon | Nominated |
Best Director | Damien Chazelle | Nominated | ||
Best Actress | Margot Robbie | Nominated | ||
Best Cinematography | Linus Sandgren | Nominated | ||
Best Editing | Tom Cross | Nominated | ||
Best Costume Design | Mary Zophres | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino | Won | ||
Best Score | Justin Hurwitz | Nominated | ||
Best Hair and Makeup | Babylon | Nominated | ||
Seattle Film Critics Society[76] | January 17, 2023 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Margot Robbie | Nominated |
Best Costume Design | Mary Zophres | Nominated | ||
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won | ||
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino | Won | ||
Online Film Critics Society[77] | January 23, 2023 | Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Nominated |
Best Costume Design | Babylon | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design | Nominated | |||
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards[78]
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February 11, 2023 | Best Period and/or Character Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture | Heba Thorisdottir, Shaunna Bren Chavez, Jean Black, Mandy Artusato | Nominated |
Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling in a Feature-Length Motion Picture | Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Ahou Mofid, Aubrey Marie | Nominated | ||
Satellite Awards[79] | March 3, 2023 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
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Diego Calva | Nominated |
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
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Margot Robbie | Nominated | ||
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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Jean Smart | Nominated | ||
Best Art Direction and Production Design | Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino | Won | ||
Best Costume Design | Mary Zophres | Won | ||
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won | ||
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) | Steve Morrow, Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan & Andy Nelson | Nominated | ||
Best Visual Effects | Jay Cooper, Elia Popov, Kevin Martel, Ebrahim Jahromi | Nominated | ||
Set Decorators Society of America Awards[80] | February 14, 2023 | Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Period Feature Film | Anthony Carlino and Florencia Martin | Nominated |
Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Awards[81]
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February 17, 2023
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Best Costume Design | Mary Zophres | Nominated |
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino | Won | ||
Best Score | Justin Hurwitz | Won | ||
Houston Film Critics Society[82] | February 18, 2023 | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
Best Cinematography | Linus Sandgren | Nominated | ||
Art Directors Guild Awards[83]
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February 18, 2023 | Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film | Florencia Martin | Won |
British Academy Film Awards[84] | February 19, 2023 | Best Costume Design | Mary Zophres | Nominated |
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design | Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino | Won | ||
Hollywood Critics Association Awards[85]
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February 24, 2023 | Best Cast Ensemble | Babylon | Nominated |
AACTA International Awards[86]
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February 24, 2023 | Best Actress | Margot Robbie | Nominated |
Best Supporting Actor | Brad Pitt | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Jean Smart | Nominated | ||
Screen Actors Guild Award[87] | February 26, 2023 | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Jovan Adepo, P.J. Byrne, Diego Calva, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Li Jun Li, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Rory Scovel, Jean Smart, Katherine Waterston | Nominated |
Costume Designers Guild Awards[88]
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February 27, 2023 | Excellence in Period Film | Mary Zophres | Nominated |
Academy Awards[89] | March 12, 2023 | Best Costume Design | Nominated | |
Best Original Score | Justin Hurwitz | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design | Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino | Nominated | ||
Golden Trailer Awards[90] | June 29, 2023 | Best Music | Babylon (Buddha Jones) | Won |
Belgian Film Critics Association[91] | January 6, 2024 | Grand Prix | Babylon | Nominated |
See also
- The Birth of a Nation (1915): American silent epic historical drama film, depicting the filming scenes of a horse racing in Babylon.
- black-and-white, partially silent film by Michel Hazanavicius, also depicting the transition to "talkies", and featuring a "Kinograph" studio resembling the "Kinoscope" of Babylon.
- Hollywood Babylon: 1965 book by Kenneth Anger about the dark side of early Hollywood, including the false premise that Clara Bow bedded the entire University of Southern California football team, somewhat as Nellie LaRoy brings that team to a party, and the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle–Virginia Rappe death scandal, resembling Babylon's Orville Pickwick–Jane Thornton storyline.
- A Clockwork Orange (1971): Film by Stanley Kubrick (with heavy doses of sex, violence and reflection on art, like Babylon) which extensively uses the music from Singin' in the Rain (1952), including in the end credits (compared to Babylon's end scene showing Singin' in the Rain), albeit in a much more cynical and sarcastic way than in Babylon.
- stuntman Cliff Booth) facing difficulty with changes in the industry, but also Robbie as an upcoming, celebrated young actress (Sharon Tate) facing dangerous possibilities and people.
- The Last Tycoon (1976): Film by Elia Kazan, based on the 1941 unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, about early Hollywood artifice, skullduggery, sex, betrayal, and desperation, ending with studio head Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro) walking off into the darkness, as Nellie does in Babylon.
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External links
- Official website
- Babylon at IMDb
- Babylon at Box Office Mojo
- Babylon at Rotten Tomatoes
- Official screenplay
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