Dallas Buyers Club

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Dallas Buyers Club
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Directed byJean-Marc Vallée
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyYves Bélanger
Edited byJohn Mac McMurphy
Martin Pensa
Production
companies
Distributed byFocus Features
Release dates
  • September 7, 2013 (2013-09-07) (TIFF)
  • November 1, 2013 (2013-11-01) (United States)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million[1]
Box office$55.7 million[2]

Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama movie. It was produced by Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter. The movie was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Dallas Buyers Club was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2013.[3] It was released in North America on November 1, 2013.

The movie gained positive reviews from critics and holds a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[4]

The movie was nominated for 6 awards at the 86th Academy Awards which included Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for McConaughey, Best Supporting Actor for Leto, Best Film Editing, and Best Makeup. McConaughey won the award for Best Actor[5] and Leto won the award for Best Supporting Actor.[5] Robin Mathews also won for the Best Makeup category even though she only had a $250 budget.[5] McConaughey and Leto also won the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards[6] and the Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture at the 71st Golden Globe Awards.[7]

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  1. Gray, Tim (December 2, 2013). "Directors on Their Teams: Jean-Marc Vallee Talks 'Dallas Buyers Club'". Variety. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  2. "Dallas Buyers Club". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  3. "Nelson Mandela biopic to have world premiere at Toronto". BBC News. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  4. "Dallas Buyers Club". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "The 86th Academy Awards (2014) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  6. "The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  7. "71st Golden Globes – Another Golden Night". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2014-04-20. Retrieved 2014-03-28.

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