The original score, composed and performed by James Brown & Fred Wesley, has been erased from all current versions of the film in the US. In its place is a poorly constructed temp score featuring source music from other 1973 era American International films such as "Coffy."
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This was the only 2008 film to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars.
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Jimmy Hurley is based on John Patrick Shanley. Everything that he does at the beginning of the movie are the same things Shanley did as a boy.
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John Patrick Shanley offered the role of Sister James to Natalie Portman, but she declined.
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Meryl Streep reunited with Amy Adams in Julie & Julia (2009), her film role subsequent to Doubt (2008).
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The Broadway play ran for over a year at the Walter Kerr Theatre, with 525 performances. The original cast was: Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius, Brían F. O'Byrne as Father Flynn, Heather Goldenhersh as Sister James, and Adriane Lenox as Mrs. Muller. All four were nominated for a Tony award. The play won four Tony awards: Best Play, Best Director (Doug Hughes), Best Actress (Jones), and Best Featured Actress (Lenox). John Patrick Shanley wrote both the stage play and the screen adaptation.
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The street scenes of the church and school were shot in the Bronx, NY, in front of St. Anthony's church and school, which John Patrick Shanley reportedly attended. The school closed in June 2013.
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Tom Hanks, John Cusack and David Hyde Pierce were considered to play Father Flynn.
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Just as he did with the play, John Patrick Shanley only told the actor who played Father Flynn whether or not Flynn was guilty. None of the other actors knew.
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It is the second movie where Meryl Streep's character is mentioned as "the Dragon". The first is The Devil Wears Prada (2006), where she was known as "The Dragon Lady".
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The church organist, Robert Ridgell, is now Director of Music and Worship Arts of Christ Church Charlotte, NC. (2016)
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The play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Meryl Streep hand knitted the shawl she wears in this movie.
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The movie was dedicated to Sister Margaret McEntee, formerly known as Sister James, John Patrick Shanley's first grade teacher.
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The film cast includes three Oscar winners, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Viola Davis, and one Oscar nominee, Amy Adams.
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The opera "Doubt" had its world premiere at Minnesota Opera on January 26, 2013 with music by Douglas J. Cuomo and libretto by John Patrick Shanley, based on his play and film.
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When filming was over, director John Patrick Shanley sent Amy Adams the Nativity Scene that Sister Veronica puts together near the end of the film as a gift.
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Frances McDormand was the original choice for the role of Sister Aloysius Beauvier.
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John Patrick Shanley's first film since Joe Versus the Volcano (1990).
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Sigourney Weaver, Annette Bening, Kathy Bates and Anjelica Huston were considered to play Sister Aloysius.
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