Iris - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[sophie]

During the 2002 Academy Awards, host Whoopi Goldberg called this "a movie that even Ingmar Bergman found depressing."

[dustin]

The only movie that year to be nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscars.

[toni]

As of 2018, Jim Broadbent's Oscar winning performance in this movie earned him his only Academy Award nomination.

[sophie]

Some viewers may find it confusing that this movie episodically jumps across three time periods; their early relationship, their later relationship before the Alzheimer's symptons start to become obvious, and the final phase once her sympton's and condition affect their relationship and lives. This may be a deliberate creative choice to "disorientate" the audience, and/or remind them how much it has changed Iris.

[aaron]

The cast includes three Oscar winners: Dame Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, and Jim Broadbent.

[jamie]

This movie also marks the second time that Dame Judi Dench, and another actress playing the same part, have been nominated for an Oscar. Previously, Dench won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998), the same year that Cate Blanchett was nominated for playing the part in Elizabeth (1998).

[bernard]

Miramax Films juggled the schedules of this and their other movies, The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and The Shipping News (2001), so that Dame Judi Dench could appear in all three.

[sophie]

This is the second movie to have two actresses nominated for an Academy Award for playing the same role in the same movie. The first was Titanic (1997). In both movies, Kate Winslet played the younger version in the dual-nominee role.

[albert]

Timothy West (Older Maurice) and Samuel West (Young Maurice) are father and son.

[ronnie]

Kate Winslet's Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominated performance was the only one in the category not in a Best Picture nominee that year.

[beth]

Kate Winslet has appeared nude in several of her movies, but most notably in this movie, in which she plays young Iris Murdoch. Despite her willingness to act in the buff when the role calls for it, Kate isn't exactly fond of the awkward scenes. "I hate it! Listen, make no mistake, I just get on it", she said in an interview with V Magazine. "I just go in and say 'Oh fck let's do it' and boom. If you complain about it or procrastinate, it's not going to go away. It's a profoundly bizarre thing to do. As actors you talk about it all the time. You can literally be tangled in sheets, and you turn to the other actor and say 'What the fck are we doing?' Dear Mum, at work today I had so-and-so's left nut sack pressed against my cheek. It's sort of unethical if you think about it in those terms."