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Up Close & Personal
MEANRANK
59/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 32, highest is Kinopoisk on 72. Critics average 32, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Details
- Director
- Jon Avnet
- Writers
- Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne
- Released
- 1 March 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $100.7M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 9 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Grammy Awards 1996 | Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1996 | Best Original Song | " Because You Loved Me " Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1996 | Best Original Song – Motion Picture | "Because You Loved Me" Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Nominee |
| Grammy Awards 1996 | Record of the Year | "Because You Loved Me" – Celine Dion and David Foster | Nominee |
| Grammy Awards 1996 | Song of the Year | "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren | Nominee |
| Grammy Awards 1996 | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | "Because You Loved Me" – Celine Dion | Nominee |
| ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 1996 | Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures | " Because You Loved Me " Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Winner |
| Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1996 | Favorite Supporting Actress – Romance | Stockard Channing | Winner |
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9 awards — Up Close & Personal
×| Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren | Winner |
| Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | "Because You Loved Me" – Celine Dion | Nominee |
| Record of the Year | "Because You Loved Me" – Celine Dion and David Foster | Nominee |
| Song of the Year | "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren | Nominee |
| Best Original Song | " Because You Loved Me " Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Nominee |
| Best Original Song – Motion Picture | "Because You Loved Me" Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Nominee |
| Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures | " Because You Loved Me " Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Winner |
| Favorite Supporting Actress – Romance | Stockard Channing | Winner |
| Best Original Song | "Because You Loved Me" Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren | Nominee |