![]() ![]() But somehow, despite dozens of men having done similarly in the years before and after this film’s release-Gary Oldman reportedly spent four hours in a make-up chair every day for Darkest Hour, the Winston Churchill biopic that finally netted him an Academy Award just six years later-Kidman’s willingness to dial back her looks was treated as a sad joke, a bit of technical wizardry that secured the actress the sort of major award consideration she obviously couldn’t have earned on her own. ![]() ![]() Yes, Kidman, who won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Virginia Woolf in the film, wore a prosthetic nose to help transform herself into the incredibly brilliant and infamously homely author. Yet, when most people nowadays think of the movie, they remember little more than Nicole Kidman’s nose. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards and features a stacked ensemble cast of A-list performers and supporting scene stealers that few films in the 20 years since its release have managed to equal. A 2002 film based on a great work of literature that was, in turn, inspired by another great work of literature, its story spans three timelines spread across 75 years and wrestles with complex philosophical questions about death, happiness and the meaning of life. The Hours is the platonic ideal of a prestige piece. ![]()
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