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These music biopics struck a chord with awards voters
Los Angeles Times
|December 04, 2025
The academy can't get enough of stories about popular artists. Here are some of the films that have earned the most plaudits.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE MUSICAL BIOPIC THAT HAS INSPIRED SO MUCH OSCAR LOVE? IS IT THE genre's front-row seat on the turbulent, provocative, culture-shifting lives of artists we've worshiped from afar? Is it the transformational, go-for-broke acting showcase it affords, and the painstaking period recreation so essential to the journey back in time? Or is it simply the enduring power of popular music and the icons who've created and performed it? With the awards season success of Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” just last year and and the recent release of writer-director Scott Cooper's biographical drama “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” starring kudos magnet Jeremy Allen White, now is the perfect time to flash back on some of the most honored pop-music biopics in Oscars history.
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