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Ed Wood (1994)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1994
Running Times: 126m (Germany; Sweden)/127m (Argentina;
USA)/135m (Finland; Italy)
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby Digital
DIRECTION
Directed by: Tim Burton
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMXCIV Touchstone Pictures
Production Company: Touchstone Pictures presents a Burton/Di Novi production,
a Tim Burton film
This picture was created by Casual Pictures Inc. for purposes of copyright
law in the United Kingdom
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
Executive Producer: Michael Lehmann
Produced by: Denise Di Novi, Tim Burton
Co-producer: Michael Flynn
Production Coordinator: Susan P. McCarthy
Assistant Production Coordinator: Tammy Wood
Unit Production Manager: Michael Polaire
SCRIPT
Written by: Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski
Based on the book "Nightmare of Ecstacy" by Rudolph Grey published
by Feral House
DIRECTION
First Assistant Director: Michael Topoozian
Second Assistant Director: Gregory Kent Simmons
2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Michael McCue
DGA Trainee: Rosemarie Unite
Script Supervisor: Janna Stern
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Stefan Czapsky
Camera Operator: Philippe Carr-Forster
"B" Camera Operator: Mark Streapy
First Assistant Camera: Eric Tramp
Loader: Lydia Smith
Gaffer: John Vecchio
Rigging Gaffer: Dennis Lootens
Best Boy Electric: Steve Givens
Key Grip: John F. Cassidy
Rigging Grip: Barry T. Lopez
Best Boy Grip: Tom Keefer
Dolly Grip: Kenny Davis
Footage restored by: Cinetech Laboratories
Cameras and Panaflex Lenses by: Panavision
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Chris Lebenzon
Additional Editor: Tom Seid
Assistant Editor: Pam Di Fede, Sandra Kaufman
Apprentice Editor: Andrea Canovas, Clark Campbell, Victoria Jensen
Negative Cutter: J.G. Films
Lab Consultant: Don Donigi
Dailies Processing by: Du Art Laboratories
Prints by: Technicolor
MUSIC
Music by: Howard Shore
Score Performed by: The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Theremin Solos Performed by: Lidia Kavina
Ondes Martenot Solos Performed by: Cynthia Millar
Latin Keyboards: Andy Narell
Orchestrations: Howard Shore
Supervising Copyist: Vic Fraser
Music Editor: Ellen Segal
Music Scoring Mixer: John Kurlander
Score Recorded at: Air Studios, London, England
Score Mixed by: Keith Grant
Additional Recording: Dave Luke at Fantasy Studios
SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
"Bunny Hop"
Written by Ray Anthony and Leonard Auletti
Performed by John Keating
Courtesy of Gateway Records
"Spring Fashion"
Written by Alan Braden
"Sweet and Lovely"
Written by Alan Braden
"Kuba Mambo"
Written and performed by Dámaso Pérez Prado
Courtesy of the RCA Records Label of BMG Music
"Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"
Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
"Nautch Dance"
Written, arranged and performed by Korla Pandit
"Grip of the Law"
Written by Trevor Duncan
"Seringa"
Written by Jon Arkell
"Desolate Village"
Written by Bruce Campbell
"Lasst Uns Erfreuen (All Creatures of God and King)"
Music by Peter von Brachel
Lyrics by John Athelstan Laurie Riley
Arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Soundtrack available on Hollywood Records
SOUND
Production Sound: Edward Tise
Boom Operator: Ken Mantlo
Cableman: Todd Russell
Supervising Sound Editor: John Nutt
Assistant Sound Editors: Mary Works, Kyrsten Mate Comoglio, Milly Iatrou,
Richard Quinn, David Bergad, Lisa Chino
Rerecording Mixers: David Parker, Michael Semanick, Richard Schirmer
Post Production Sound Editing and Rerecording: The Saul Zaentz Film
Center
ADR Mixers: Jeff Courtie, Brian Ruberg, Paul Zydell
Dialogue Editors: Joan E. Chapman, Patrick Dodd, Scott Levitin
Foley Artists: Margie O'Malley, Jennifer Myers
Foley Recording Engineers: Richard Duarte, Linda Lew
Sound Effects Editor: Ernie Fosselius, Sam Hinkley
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Colleen Atwood
Assistant to the Costume Designer: Michelle Skoby
Costume Department Supervisor: Nancy McArdle
Men's Costumer Supervisor: Kenn Smiley
Costumer: Stephanie Colin
Key Makeup Artist: Ve Neill
Makeup: Carrie Angland
Key Hairstylist: Yolanda Toussieng
Hair: Lucia Mace, Bridget Cook
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Bela Lugosi Makeup Designed and Created by: Rick Baker
Rick Baker Crew: Matt Rose, Jim Leonard, Jim McLoughlin
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: Howard Jensen
Special Effects: J. Kevin Pike
VISUAL EFFECTS
Motion Control Photography & Special Visual Effects by:
Boyington Film Productions, Inc.
Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Boyington
Model Production Designer: Jeryd Pojawa
Director of Photography: Alan Blaisdale
Key Model Builders: Joshua Culp, Evan Jacobs
Octopus by: Sota Effects
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Opticals: Reel Effects
Main Title Composite by: Cinema Research Corporation
Main Title Sequence Designed by: Robert Dawson, Paul Boyington
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tom Duffield
Assistant to Production Designer: Stephanie Schwartzman
Art Director: Okowita
Assistant Art Director: Keith Neely
Set Designers: Chris Nushawg, Bruce Hill
Visual Consultant: Richard Hoover
Set Decorator: Cricket Rowland
Leadman: Chuck McSorley
On-set Dresser: Erik Polczwartek
Property Master: Emily Ferry
Assistant Property Master: Joy Taylor
Assistant Props: Otneil Gonzalez
Art Department Coordinator: Beth Bernstein
Art Department Researcher: Allison M. Davies
Art Department Associate: Jane Ann Stewart
Illustrator: James Carson
Construction Coordinator: John Samson
Construction Foreman: Roger Meryett
Greensman: Lee Runnells
OTHER CREW
Production Accountant: Gary Gillingham
First Assistant Accountant: Jane Harrison
Second Assistant Accountant: Julie Laprath
Payroll Accountant: Rob Meisenholder
Key Production Assistant: Scott Mislan
Production Assistants: Kerry Bailey, Lisa Bock, Angela Bonner, Dina
Brendlinger, Shari B. Ellis, Lawrence Grassedonio, John J. Hermansen,
Al Hobbs, Peter Tully Owen, Philip J. Pettiette, Mark Segurson, Wesley
Terry
Assistant to the Producers: Amy Hobby
Assistant to Johnny Depp: Bruce Corkam
Studio Teacher: Irene Brafstein
Transportation Coordinator: Pat Carman
Transportation Captain: Hal Lary
Unit Publicist: Susan Steinlauf
Dialect Coach: Jessica Drake, Francie Brown
Catering: Deluxe Caterers
Animal action was monitored by the American Humane Association. No animal
was harmed in the making of this film
LOCATIONS
Locations: Hollywood, California, USA
Location Managers: Elizabeth Matthews, Diana Leigh Myers
Location Assistants: Ed Lippman, Josephine Matthew Adair
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special Thanks to: Paul Marco, Kathy Wood, Aurura Casket Company
Brown Derby Restaurant courtesy of Walter P. Scarfe
Use of Republic Pictures name and logo courtesy of Republic Pictures
Corporation
Plan Nine from Outer Space licensed through Wade Williams Distribution
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: John Branagan
CASTING
Casting by: Victoria Thomas
Casting Assistant: Jeanne McCarthy, Matthew Barry
Extras Casting: Bill Dance, Tammy Smith
CAST
Johnny Depp (Ed
Wood)
Martin Landau (Bela
Lugosi)
Sarah Jessica Parker (Dolores Fuller)
Patricia Arquette (Kathy O'Hara)
Jeffrey Jones (Criswell)
G.D. Spradlin (Reverend Lemon)
Vincent D'Onofrio (Orson Welles)
Lisa Marie (Vampira)
and
Bill Murray (Bunny Breckenridge)
Mike Starr (Georgie Weiss)
Max Casella (Paul Marco)
Brent Hinkley (Conrad Brooks)
George "The Animal" Steele (Tor Johnson)
Juliet Landau (Loretta King)
Clive Rosengren (Ed Reynolds)
Norman Alden (cameraman Bill)
Leonard Termo (make up man Harry)
Ned Bellamy (Dr Tom Mason)
Danny Dayton (sound man)
John Ross (camera assistant)
Bill Cusack (Tony McCoy)
Aaron Nelms (teenage kid)
Biff Yeager (rude boss)
Joseph R. Gannascoli (security guard)
Carmen Filpi (old crusty man)
Lisa Malkiewicz (secretary #1)
Melora Walters (secretary #2)
Conrad Brooks (bartender)
Don Amendolia (salesman)
Tommy Bertelsen (tough boy)
Reid Cruickshanks (stage guard)
Stanley DeSantis (Mr Feldman)
Lionel Decker (executive #1)
Edmund L. Shaff (executive #2)
Gene LeBell (ring announcer)
Jesse Hernandez (wrestling opponent)
Bobby Slayton (TV show host)
Gretchen Becker (TV host's assistant)
John Rice (conservative man)
Catherine Butterfield (conservative wife)
Mary Portser (backer's wife)
King Cotton (hick backer)
Don Hood (Southern backer)
Frank Echols (doorman)
Matthew Barry (valet)
Ralph Monaco (waiter)
Anthony Russell (busboy)
Tommy Bush (stage manager)
Gregory Walcott (potential backer)
Charles C. Stevenson Jr (another backer)
Rance Howard (Old Man McCoy)
Vasek Simek (Professor Strowski)
Alan Martin (Vampira's assistant)
Salwa Ali (Vampira's girlfriend)
Rodney Kizziah (Vampira's friend)
Korla Pandit (Indian musician)
Hannah Eckstein (Greta Johnson)
Luc De Schepper (Karl Johnson)
Vinny Argiro (TV horror show director)
Patti Tippo (nurse)
Ray Baker (doctor)
Louis Lombardi (rental house manager)
James Reid Boyce (theatre manager)
Ben Ryan Ganger (angry kid)
Ryan Holihan (frantic usher)
Marc Revivo (high school punk)
Charlie Holliday (tourist)
Adam Drescher (photographer #1)
Ric Mancini (photographer #2)
Daniel Riordan (pilot/strapping young man)
Mickey Cottrell (Hammy Alien)
Christopher George Simpson (organist)
Robert Binford, Herbert Boche, Linda Rae Brienz, Marlene Cook, Sylvia
Coussa, Audrey Cuyler, Joseph Golightly, Carrie Starner Hummel, Ramona
Kemp-Blair, Carolyn Kessinger, Nancy Longyear, Matthew Nelson, Robert
Nuffer, William Michael Short, Susan Eileen Simpson, George F. Sterne,
Charles Alan Stephenson, Cheri A. Williams, Cynthia Ann Wilson (choir
members)
UNCREDITED CAST
Maurice LaMarche (voice of Orson Welles)
PLOT SUMMARY
Struggling film-maker and cross-dresser Edward
D. Wood Jr falls in with an unlikely crowd of marginals and eccentrics
on his way to making his masterpiece, the unforgettable Plan 9
From Outer Space. Along the way, he makes other strange
movis and strikes up a friendship with all-but-forgotten horror icon,
Bela Lugosi.
AVAILABILITY
Argentina
Video Distributor: Gativideo
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Lauren Film
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
Laserdisc Distributor: Touchstone (2758 AS)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 13
Chile
Rating: 14
Finland
Rating: K-12
France
Rating: U
Germany
Rating: 12
Portugal
Rating: M/12
Spain
Rating: 7
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: R
AWARDS
1994
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography (Stefan Czapsky) - winner
Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Stefan Czapsky) - winner
Best Music (Howard Shore) - winner
Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Stefan Czapsky) - winner
Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
1995
Academy Awards, USA
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Martin Landau) - winner
Best Makeup (Rick Baker, Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng) - winner
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
(Saturn Awards)
Best Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
Best Music (Howard Shore) - winner
American Comedy Awards, USA
Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Martin Landau) - winner
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm (Tim Burton) - nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
Golden Globes, USA
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
(Martin Landau) - winner
Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical (Johnny
Depp) - nominated
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography (Stefan Czapsky) - winner
Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Martin
Landau) - winner
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau) - winner
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Scott Alexander, Larry
Karaszewski) - nominated
1996
Argentinian Film Critics Association Awards, Argentina
Mejor Película Extranjera (Tim Burton) - nominated
British Academy Awards
Best Make Up/Hair (Rick Baker, Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng - nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Martin Landau) -
nominated
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Actor of the Year (Johnny Depp) - winner
TIMELINE
1994
September
28: USA - theatrical release
October
7: Canada - theatrical release
1995
April
6: Argentina - theatrical release
May
Day Unknown: France - show at the Cannes Film Festival
17: UK - theatrical release
June
2: Portugal, Spain, Sweden - theatrical release
9: Poland - theatrical release
21: France - theatrical release
27: USA - laserdisc release (Touchstone (2758 AS))
July
13: Germany - theatrical release
August
11: Denmark - theatrical release
November
24: Finland - theatrical release
2001
October
8: Poland - shown at the Warsaw Film Festival
2003
January
2: USA - television broadcast (on STARZ 350)
POSTER TAGS
Movies were his passion. Women were his inspiration. Angora
sweaters were his weakness.
When it came to making bad movies, Ed Wood was the best.
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Bride of the Monster
(1956)
Dracula (1931)
Ed Wood Look Back
In Angora (1994)
Frankenstein (1931)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Plan 9 From
Outer Space (1958)
White Zombie (1932)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Cinema (Germany) 29 June 1995
review (Bert Buellmann)
epd Film vol.12 no.7 (1 July 1995) p.34
(Germany)
review (by Sabine Horst)
FilmMagasinet August / September 1995
p.23
review (by Geir Kamsvaag)
Première (France) July 1995 p.40
review (Christian Jauberty)
Shivers 18 p.17
review
Studio June 1995 p.15
review (by Laurent Tirard)
Studio Special Cannes 1995 p.35
review (by Michel Rebichon)
NEWSPAPERS
Diário de Notícias 31 March 2000 p.63
review
O Independente, Vida 2 June 1995
review (by Fernando Caetano)
Svenska Dagbladet 2 June 1995
review (Filmhistoriens evige förlorare by Jan Söderqvist)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
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premieres, sex changes, transvestites, transvestitism, wrestling
Last Updated:
8 September, 2009
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