The Age of Innocence (film)

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The Age of Innocence (film)

The Age of Innocence is a 1993

1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ...
film directed by Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
and starring Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
, Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
and Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
, released by Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
. It is a film adaptation of the book of the same name

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s....
by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was an United States novelist, short story writer and designer....
. The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

and Archer (Day-Lewis), an affluent lawyer in 1870s New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, is engaged to May Welland (Ryder), a beautiful but conventional socialite

Socialite

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Plot

Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), an affluent lawyer in 1870s New York

New York

Socialite

A socialite is a person who is known to be a part of fashionable Upper class because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant amount of time Entertainment and being entertained....
. Newland begins to question the life he has planned for himself after the arrival of May’s cousin, the exotic and sophisticated Countess Ellen Olenska (Pfeiffer). Ellen is not seeking a divorce from her abusive husband, a Polish count, but everyone believes she is, which has made her a social outcast and greatly displeases her family, who are afraid of scandal

Scandal

A scandal is a widely publicized incident that involves allegations of Malfeasance in office, disgrace, or Morality outrage. A scandal may be based on reality, the product of false allegations, or a mixture of both....
. As Newland grows to care more and more deeply for Ellen, having convinced her not to press for a divorce

Divorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the marital status of being single....
, he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the society to which he belongs and the idea of entering into a passionless marriage with May. The question at this point, is whether he will follow society's dictates, or his heart? The film, closely following the book, gives no simple answer.

Production

Much of the film, particularly those scenes set in the home of Mrs. Manson Mingott (May's and Ellen's grandmother), was filmed in the Paine Mansion on 2nd Street in Troy, New York

Troy, New York

Troy is a city in New York, United States, and the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 49,170....
. The building, known locally as "The Castle", is the home of the Alpha Tau chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi

Pi Kappa Phi

Pi Kappa Phi is an United States social Fraternities and sororities. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr....
fraternity, chartered to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Private university research university located in Troy, New York, New York, United States. RPI was founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer III for the "application of science to the common purposes of life", and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world....
.

Martin Scorsese would again direct Daniel Day-Lewis as a character from 1800s New York City, but as a gangster rather than an aristocrat, in Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 in film USA historical film crime film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points, Manhattan district of New York City....
.

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
: Newland Archer
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
: Countess Ellen Olenska
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder

Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
: May Welland
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
: Narrator (voice)
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith was a Canada actor.Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Smith shares a birthname with actress Mary Pickford....
: Louisa van der Luyden
Geraldine Chaplin
Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominated actor and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin....
: Mrs. Welland
Mary Beth Hurt
Mary Beth Hurt

Mary Beth Hurt is a critically acclaimed American stage and screen actor....
: Regina Beaufort
Alec McCowen
Alec McCowen

Alexander Duncan "Alec" McCowen Order of the British Empire, is an English actor, best known for his strikingly individual stage performances in modern and classical roles including William Shakespeare....
: Sillerton Jackson
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant is a British people Swaziland actor, screenwriter and film director....
: Larry Lefferts
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes Order of the British Empire is a British character actress, who has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and as a voice artist....
: Mrs. Mingott
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard

Robert Sean Leonard is an American actor known for his role as James Wilson on the TV series House ....
: Ted Archer
Siân Phillips
Siân Phillips

Si?n Phillips, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people actress....
: Mrs. Archer
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce is a Wales award-winning theatre and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying Irish actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s....
: Rivière
Michael Gough
Michael Gough

Michael Gough is a United Kingdom character actor who has appeared in over 100 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences by his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four original Batman movies, beginning with Batman ....
: Henry van der Luyden
Stuart Wilson: Julius Beaufort

Crew

Director: Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
Producer: Barbara De Fina
Barbara De Fina

Barbara De Fina is an United States film producer.She is most famous for producing the Hollywood movies GoodFellas in 1990 in film and Kundun in 1997 in film film about the Dalai Lama working with director Martin Scorsese, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1991....
, Bruce S. Pustin
Screenplay: Jay Cocks
Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time magazine, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before graduating to film writing....
, Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus
Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. is a German people cinematography....

Awards

Academy Awards

Award	Person
Costume Design	Gabriella Pescucci
Nominated:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....	Winona Ryder Winona Ryder Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium	Jay Cocks Jay Cocks Jay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time magazine, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before graduating to film writing.... Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
Best Original Score	Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein 'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
Art Direction Academy Award for Best Art Direction The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art director#Film on a film....	Dante Ferretti Dante Ferretti Dante Ferretti is an Italy Academy Awards-winning production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and European, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Anthony Minghella, Tim Burton.... Robert J. Franco

Golden Globes

Award	Person
Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress ? Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 in film for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year....	Winona Ryder Winona Ryder Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
Nominated:
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
Best Actress - Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....	Michelle Pfeiffer Michelle Pfeiffer Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....	Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...

The Age of Innocence (film)

Plot

Production

Cast

Crew

Awards

Academy Awards

Golden Globes

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