FILM 1196: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
TRIVIA: The budget was also so low
for this film that only two-hundred and fifty dollars ($250) was allotted to
the Makeup department. Amazingly, the film's artists were able to work within
that figure, and the film's Makeup and Hairstyling won an Oscar.
Matthew McConaughey lost
47 pounds in assuming his role as an AIDS patient. Newspapers reported his new
looks as "terribly gaunt" and "wasting away to skin and
bones".
Jared Leto lost 30 pounds
for his role.
Leto's and Garner's characters
didn't exist in real life.
The movie went through various
stages before finally being financed with the help of Matthew McConaughey. The
first director/actor duo who tried to get the movie made were Brad Pitt and Marc Forster and also Ryan Gosling and Craig Gillespie. Woody Harrelson was also
involved with the project at one point.
This is the fifth movie to win best
actor & best supporting actor Oscars (for Matthew McConaughey & Jared Leto), Going My Way (1944),The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946), Ben-Hur (1959) & Mystic River (2003) being
the others.
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