If you want to see a movie that has won awards watch *Little Women (2019) on Amazon Prime. Below are several awards Little Women has won to help explain the 5 Stars.
2020 Oscar Winner: Best Achievement in Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
2020 BAFTA Film Award Winner: Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
2020 AACTA International Award Winner: Best Lead Actress (Saoirse Ronan)
2020 AFI USA Award Winner Movie of the Year
2020 Alliance of Women Film Journalists (2020)
EDA Award Winner: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
EDA Award Winner: Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
EDA Award Winner: Best Ensemble Cast (Kathy Driscoll Francine Maisler)
EDA Female Focus Award Winner: Best Woman Screenwriter (Greta Gerwig)
EDA Female Focus Award Winner: Best Breakthrough Performance (Florence Pugh)
Online Film & Television Association (2020)
OFTA Film Award Winner: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Greta Gerwig)
OFTA Film Award Winner: Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
Women Film Critics Circle Awards (2019)
WFCC Award Winner: Best Woman Storyteller (Greta Gerwig)
The following paragraphs is some trivia about Little Women. This explains some of why Little Women has a 5 Star rating.
After finding out that the adaptation was in the works, Saoirse Ronan reached out to Greta Gerwig and told her she decided she was going to play Jo March. Gerwig was initially hesitant to cast Ronan after having just worked with her on Lady Bird (2017), but after realizing that more or less casting herself was a very Jo thing to do, Gerwig sent Ronan an e-mail that said "Yes, you're Jo."
Florence Pugh had just finished filming Midsommar (2019), a few days prior to when she started shooting this movie. She said that getting to play Amy after making such a stressful and anxiety-inducing movie was her version of therapy.
Amy's big speech about marriage was not in the initial script, but was suggested by Meryl Streep. After working and talking with writer and director Greta Gerwig, Streep asserted that there needed to be a moment in this movie that gave modern audiences the opportunity to understand the true powerlessness of women in that period. Not only could they not vote or work, but through marriage they would lose ownership of their money, property, and children. According to Florence Pugh, the lines were given to her a few minutes before they were due to shoot the scene. It was handwritten on a piece of scrap paper.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran made several duplicate costume pieces for Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) and Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Timothée Chalamet) to make it seem like the characters share clothes.
Writer and director Greta Gerwig worked extensively to have her version of "Little Women" mirror the story of Louisa May Alcott, who drew from her own life for her work. Gerwig said that she saw Jo as the heroine of her youth, and Louisa May Alcott as the heroine of her adulthood: "What she did, that she wrote all this down. She made the lives of girls and women a best-seller. And that was extraordinary."
Each sister was given a distinctive color palette for their wardrobe: Meg's is lavender and green, Jo's is red and indigo, Beth's is pink and brown, and Amy's is light blue. Their mother Marmee often wears a combination of all of their colors.
The March house was designed to look plain from the outside, but be bright and colorful inside. Because of this, it earned the nickname "the jewel box" on set.
Eliza Scanlen (Beth March) does play the piano. The scenes where Beth is playing piano in the movie, actually is Scanlen playing. She had to practice three hours a day to be prepared for the role, because it was a prerequisite in order to play Beth.
The characters are heroines of American literature, but none of the four leading ladies are American. Emma Watson and Florence Pugh are English, and Eliza Scanlen is Australian. Saoirse Ronan was born in the Bronx, New York, but raised in Ireland.
Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) never wears corsets in this movie, which was quite unusual for the time. Even amongst her sisters, Jo is the only one to make that choice.
Filmed entirely in Massachusetts.
This movie was released December 25, 2019, 25 years after Little Women (1994).
Amy's School House scenes were filmed at The Concord School of Philosophy, a chapel turned school house built by Louisa May Alcott's Father that sits next to their Concord, MA childhood home 'Orchard House'
With six Oscar nominations, this is the most a theatrically released version of Little Women has received. The 1933, 1949, and 1994 versions altogether received eight nominations (winning two).
The cast includes three Oscar winners: Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper; and three Oscar nominees: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, and Florence Pugh.
The age order of the March sisters goes Meg (Emma Watson), Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Beth (Eliza Scanlen) and Amy (Florence Pugh). In actuality, Eliza Scanlen is younger than Florence Pugh by three years. Their birthdays are three days apart.
Producers Denise Di Novi and Robin Swicord (whom both produced this film) also worked on Little Women (1994). In that version, Di Novi also served as the producer, while Swicord wrote the screenplay and co-produced the 1994 version.
With her role as Jo March, this is the second time that Saoirse Ronan portrayed one of Katharine Hepburn's iconic roles (she played the title character in Mary Queen of Scots (2018)). She also shared a common bond with Winona Ryder, who played Jo in Little Women (1994). Ronan also played Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of "The Crucible", the same role that Ryder played in The Crucible (1996).
Saoirse Ronan and Meryl Streep competed in 2018 for many Best Actress awards, including the Academy Award, for their respective leading roles in Lady Bird (2017) and The Post (2017), but both lost to Frances McDormand for her leading role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
Prologue: "I've had lots of troubles, so I write jolly tales." Louisa May Alcott
This is the second version of Little Women that received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay following Little Women (1933). This is also the second version of Little Women to receive nominations for Best Actress, Best Costume Design and Best Music/Original Score following Little Women (1994). With an Oscar win for Best Costume Design, this is the third Little Women to win an Oscar (and each time in a different category). Little Women (1933) won Best Adapted Screenplay and Little Women (1949) won Best Art Decoration-Set Decoration.
When Meg (Emma Watson) enters the debutante ball, discussing how she only owns the one dress, all the ladies have their hair up while Meg is the only one with her hair down.
There have been five American motion picture versions of "Little Women". In the role of Aunt March, Mary Wickes was the oldest at eighty-four in Little Women (1994); Meryl Streep and Julia Hurley in Little Women (1918) and the 2019 version were both seventy; Lucile Watson in Little Women (1949) was sixty-nine while Edna May Oliver in Little Women (1933) was the youngest at fifty. Two television versions - Little Women (1978) and Little Women (2017) - featured Greer Garson at seventy-four and Dame Angela Lansbury at ninety-two (making Lansbury the oldest to play Aunt March in either movies or television).
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
Florence Pugh appeared in two 2019 movies in which her character wore a flower crown in significant scenes. She played Amy March in this movie, in which she and other characters wore them during Meg's wedding, and she played Dani Ardor in Midsommar (2019), in which multiple characters wore them in ritual contexts.
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd. The social network for film lovers.
Eowyn Young's debut.
More Little Women trivia is on IMDB.
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Little Women (2019)
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel about four sisters growing up after the Civil War.
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