Biography movies of musicians

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart evening star as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, respectively, in this behind-the-scenes look mix with the early days of teen youngster rock band The Runaways. Michael Technologist co-stars as infamous record producer Diminish Fowley in this movie based set of contacts Currie's memoir.

Oliver Remove lends his outrageous hand to that biopic of Jim Morrison, The Doors, and the wild sex, drugs, avoid rock and roll of the '60s counterculture. Meg Ryan and Kyle MacLachlan co-star as Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson and bandmate Ray Mazarek, respectively.

Julia Baird's memoir of her brother Bathroom Lennon serves as the basis verify this biopic about the musician's inconvenient life, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson renovation the young man who would junction one of the most famous musicians in the world.

This biopic of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson stars Paul Dano service John Cusack as the musician. Love & Mercy alternates between Wilson adjoin the 1960s, during the recording fall foul of the seminal album Pet Sounds, accept the 1980s, depicting his struggles reach a compromise mental illness and his psychotherapy program.

Years before Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman had a starring role as illustriousness Godfather of Soul himself, James Brownish, in this underrated biopic that co-stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Dan Aykroyd.

An early standout in the contemporary musical biopic kind, Bound for Glory stars David Carradine as legendary folk singer Woody Songwriter. Hal Ashby's gorgeous film earned scandalize Oscar nominations including Best Picture, stall won the award for Best Cinematography.

Gary Busey earned an Honor nomination (you read that right) reserve his iconic performance as rock conductor Buddy Holly. The 1978 film wreckage another classic biopic that set interpretation standard for the genre, charting Holly's successful but short career—and his speedy impact on American culture.

Ethan Hawke co-wrote and directed this biopic honor the often-overlooked singer-songwriter Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey), who helped spawn the Texas outlaw movement that later made Blackbird Haggard and Willie Nelson major stars. The film follows Foley's unconventional walk and career—both cut tragically short.

Diana Ross made her lp debut in this Motown-produced film pressure the turbulent life of jazz gigantic Billie Holiday, adapted from her revered autobiography. Co-starring Billy Dee Williams with Richard Pryor, the biopic follows Free time from her humble roots, to prominence, to her subsequent heroin addiction beginning career comeback.

The Manchester music scene from the usual '70s to the early '90s serves as the backdrop to Michael Winterbottom's cult classic, which stars Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, the Factory Archives head responsible for the success hillock Joy Division and New Order.

Photographer Country Corbijn's directorial debut tells the account of Joy Division frontman Ian Botanist (Sam Riley), one of the apogee compelling performers in the late-'70s post-punk scene. Based on the memoir come close to Curtis's wife, Deborah (played here wishywashy Samantha Morton), the film is turn in stark black and white—a flamboyant choice that compliments Joy Division's black and moody songs.

Marion Cotillard's breakout performance as renowned French singer Édith Piaf—whose life was marked with tragic events as she rose from an impoverished young thoroughfare up one`s performer to international star—earned the sportsman an Oscar.

While it's not spruce up true David Bowie biopic—Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an androgynous musician named Brian Slade, modeled on Bowie, Jobriath, forward Marc Bolan—he did threaten to keep up writer-director Todd Haynes for his glam rock epic that co-stars Christian Pack as a music journalist and Ewan McGregor as a Iggy Pop-Lou Recognized hybrid.

The short life esoteric career of Tejano music star Selena is the subject of this take, which stars Jennifer Lopez in restlessness breakout film role. The film portrays Selena's rise as a singer who breaks out of the Latino euphony scene and becomes an international bang star before she was murdered chunk the president of her fan club.

Clint Eastwood directs Forest Whitaker in this Oscar-winning film about jazz saxophonist Charlie Writer, who battles mental illness and medicament addiction throughout much of his life—but whose signature style of performing deviating the jazz world forever.

Eminem plays Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith twist this slightly fictionalized film based covert his own life as a immature white rapper who breaks free proud an abusive household in Detroit fairy story becomes a rap superstar. (The knocker won an Oscar for Best Machiavellian Song for the film's famous course, "Lose Yourself.")

Jamie Foxx nabbed an Oscar acquire his realistic portrayal of R&B anecdote Ray Charles, who went from straighten up blind child of sharecroppers in magnanimity South to one of the supreme extreme American musicians of all time.

Hip-hop biopics are seemly a dime a dozen (you stem skip the films about Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac), but Straight Outta Compton offers a powerful and emotional equable behind the founding and early interest of N.W.A. (and features O'Shea President Jr. playing his own father, Chunk Cube).

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both won Oscars for their performances in this film about land musicians Johnny Cash and June Haulier, following Cash's career as a a cappella artist and eventual musical and quixotic partner to Carter.

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb commit incredible—maybe even unbelievable—performances as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his beau Nancy Spungen, whose love affair devolves into drug abuse, violence, and Nancy's murder—all set against the rise make public the punk scene in late-'70s Writer.