Event Details
Natalie Portman was nominated for her uncanny performance as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in this unusual biopic directed by Pablo Larraín (Maria, 2024). The screenplay by Noah Oppenheim is structured around an interview by a magazine journalist (Billy Crudup) and focuses on key events in the First Lady’s life, especially the assassination of her husband. The film was also nominated for Madeline Fontaine’s authentic costume designs and the unsettling score by Mica Levi (Under the Skin, 2013), which used flutes and strings to evoke its heroine’s combination of vulnerability and resilience.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2016 | 100 min. | USA/France/Chile | Color | English | Rated R | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Pablo Larraín
WRITTEN BY: Noah Oppenheim
WITH: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup