Directed by:
Patty JenkinsScreenplay:
Patty JenkinsCinematography:
Steven BernsteinComposer:
BTCast:
Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Annie Corley, Marco St. John, Kane Hodder, Brett Rice, Lee Tergesen, Tim Ware (more)Plots(1)
The true-life story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute executed in 2002 in Florida after being convicted of murdering six men. While Wuornos confessed to the six murders, including a policeman, she claimed to have killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults while working as a prostitute. In 1989-90, a love story unfolds in the midst of the horrors and pathologies of two misfits: Wuornos, a drifter prostitute and Selby Wall, sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida in order to "cure her homosexuality". Nearing suicidal despair, Aileen wanders into a bar, where she meets Selby and falls in love. To keep her and Selby's relationship alive, she continues hooking, only to fuel an increasingly escalating deadly rage, a fury vented with a lurid string of killings and the media's sordid designation of her as the first female serial killer--a monster. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2004 - Charlize Theron (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role)
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2004 - Brad Wyman, Charlize Theron, Clark Peterson, Donald Kushner, Mark Damon, Patty Jenkins (Best First Feature)
- 2004 - Charlize Theron (Best Female Lead)
- 2004 - Patty Jenkins (Best First Screenplay)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2005 - Charlize Theron (Best Leading Actress)
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2005 - Patty Jenkins (Best American Film)
Golden Globes
- 2004 - Charlize Theron (Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2004 - Charlize Theron (Best Actress)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2003 - Charlize Theron (Best Actress)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2003 - Charlize Theron (Best Actress)
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- 2004 - Charlize Theron (Silver Bear for Best Actress)
- 2004 - Patty Jenkins (Golden Bear for Best Film)