UK / Germany,
2000, 119 min
Directed by:
Philip KaufmanCinematography:
Rogier StoffersComposer:
Stephen WarbeckCast:
Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide, Amelia Warner, Stephen Moyer, Tony Pritchard, Michael Jenn (more)VOD (2)
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Rush gives a tour-de-force performance as history's most infamous sexual adventurer, the Marquis de Sade. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid (Winslet) smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest (Phoenix). The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor (Caine) tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2001 - Geoffrey Rush (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
- 2001 - Best Achievement in Production Design
- 2001 - Best Achievement in Costume Design
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2001 - Geoffrey Rush (Best Leading Actor)
- 2001 - Best Costume Design
- 2001 - Best Make Up/Hair
- 2001 - Best Production Design
Golden Globes
- 2001 - Doug Wright (Best Screenplay)
- 2001 - Geoffrey Rush (Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2001 - Joaquin Phoenix (Best Supporting Actor)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2000 - Geoffrey Rush (Best Actor)