
However, Mental Floss reports parts of The Phantom of the Opera are based on historical events. At the Saturn Awards, Rossum won for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, while The Phantom of the Opera was nominated for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and Alexandra Byrne was nominated for Costume Design.The story of Erik and Christine Daaé is fictitious. In the same ceremony, Emmy Rossum was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, losing to Annette Bening in Being Julia. The song was also nominated for the Golden Globe but it lost to Alfie's "Old Habits Die Hard".

Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Charles Hart were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Learn to Be Lonely") but lost to "Al otro lado del río" from The Motorcycle Diaries. However, both categories were awarded to The Aviator. Thriller | Drama | Romance Director: Joel Schumacher Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 72% with 1,342 votes Runtime: 2:23 TMDBĪccolades Anthony Pratt and Celia Bobak were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, as was John Mathieson for Best Cinematography.
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Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles.

The classic musical comes to the big screen for the first time.ĭeformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House.
