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Bombshell (2019 film)

January 01, 1970

Bombshell is a 2019 American drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The film stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and is based on the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles.

Bombshell
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJay Roach
Written byCharles Randolph
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBarry Ackroyd
Edited byJon Poll
Music byTheodore Shapiro
Production
companies
Distributed byLionsgate
Release date
  • December 13, 2019 (2019-12-13) (United States)
Running time
109 minutes[1]
CountriesUnited States
Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$32 million[2]
Box office$61.4 million[3][4]

Bombshell was released in December 13, 2019. The film's box office results were seen as disappointing, but it received mostly positive reviews. It garnered praise for its acting as well as its choices of makeup and hair, which won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while earning some criticism of the screenplay and inaccuracies in the plot and character portrayals.

Plot edit

After co-moderating the 2016 Republican debate, Megyn Kelly faces numerous insults from Donald Trump, who is angry because she asked him about his offensive comments toward women. Under pressure from the network, and after receiving death threats and unwanted paparazzi attention, Kelly eventually reconciles with Trump.

Meanwhile, Gretchen Carlson is removed as co-anchor of the popular Fox & Friends show, and is transferred to a less popular show. Inundated by sexist comments on and off the air, including by Roger Ailes, Carlson meets with lawyers, Nancy Smith and Neil Mullin, who explain that Carlson's contract prevents her from suing the network, but she can sue Ailes personally.

On her first day on The O'Reilly Factor, Kayla Pospisil meets fellow female staffer Jess Carr, and the two have sex. The next day, Ailes begins sexually harassing Pospisil. Pospisil begins to tell Carr about what happened, but Carr interrupts, saying she cannot get involved.

Carlson is later fired, ostensibly for her on-air support of the federal assault weapons ban, and decides to sue Ailes. When the news breaks the next day, Ailes denies the allegations and Kelly admits to her core team Ailes sexually harassed her when she started at Fox. In the following weeks, despite a number of other women voicing their public support against Ailes, Kelly conspicuously refuses to make a comment on Carlson's accusations.

After more women accuse Ailes, Kelly starts to find other women at the network. Kelly visits Pospisil, and the two confide in each other. Kelly advises Pospisil to come forward, and after consulting with Carr, she does. Through her attorneys, Carlson later informs Ailes she has recorded conversations to support her claims, deliberately withholding them from Ailes's lawyers in order to undermine his credibility. Defeated, Ailes is fired by Fox co-creator Rupert Murdoch. Ailes settles Carlson's lawsuit for $20 million and an apology from Fox, but the agreement contains a non-disclosure agreement. Fox eventually paid the victims of sexual harassment $50 million, while paying Ailes and O'Reilly $65 million in severance.

Cast edit

Production edit

Development edit

On May 18, 2017, shortly after the death of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, it was announced that Annapurna Pictures was in the early stages of developing a film centered on the allegations made against Ailes by female employees, including Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson. Charles Randolph was expected to write the film's screenplay.[6] On May 22, 2018, it was announced that Jay Roach had been hired to direct the film.[7] On August 1, 2018, it was announced that Roach, Randolph, Beth Kono, AJ Dix, and Margaret Riley would act as the film's producers and that Denver and Delilah Productions would serve as the film's production company.[8] On October 9, 2018, it was announced that Annapurna Pictures had dropped out of producing the film, reportedly due to concerns over the film's growing budget. At the time of the announcement, it was confirmed that Bron Studios was staying on and that producers were looking at Focus Features, Participant Media, and Amblin Entertainment to help finance the film.[9] The following week, Lionsgate began negotiating to join the production after Focus Features and Amblin Entertainment passed on the project.[10] By the end of the month, Lionsgate was reported to be closing a deal to distribute the film.[11] In December 2018, it was reported that Theodore Shapiro would compose the film's score and that Barry Ackroyd would serve as the film's cinematographer.[12][13] The film was given the working title Fair and Balanced, before being announced as Bombshell in August 2019.[14] Kelly later stated that she had no involvement with the film.[15]

Casting edit

Alongside the directing and writing announcements, it was reported that Charlize Theron had entered negotiations to portray Kelly in the film.[7] On August 1, 2018, it was reported that Nicole Kidman had begun negotiations to star as Carlson and that Margot Robbie was in talks to play a composite associate producer at the network, with Theron confirmed to star.[8][16] Later that month, it was announced that John Lithgow had been cast as Roger Ailes.[17] In September 2018, it was reported that Allison Janney had been cast as lawyer Susan Estrich and that Kate McKinnon had been cast to play a fictional producer.[18][19]

In October 2018, it was announced that Malcolm McDowell, Mark Duplass, and Alice Eve had been cast as Rupert Murdoch, Douglas Brunt, and Ainsley Earhardt, respectively.[20][11] In November 2018, it was reported that Brigette Lundy-Paine and Liv Hewson had been cast as two fictional characters[21] and that Alanna Ubach,[22] Elisabeth Röhm, Spencer Garrett, Connie Britton, Ashley Greene, Brooke Smith, Michael Buie, Nazanin Boniadi, and Bree Condon had been cast as Jeanine Pirro, Martha MacCallum, Sean Hannity, Beth Ailes, Abby Huntsman, Irena Brigante, Bret Baier, Rudi Bakhtiar, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, respectively.[23][24][25][26][27][28] In December 2018, it was announced that Rob Delaney had joined the cast of the film in an undisclosed role and that Ahna O'Reilly had been cast as Julie Roginsky.[29][30] In June 2019, Robin Weigert announced she had joined the cast of the film.[31]

Filming edit

Principal photography for the film began on October 22, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.[32][33]

Release edit

The film was scheduled for release on December 20, 2019.[34] However, it was pushed up to December 13, 2019, in a limited release, opening to public viewing on December 20.[35]

Reception edit

Box office edit

Bombshell grossed $31.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $29.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $61.4 million.[3][4]

In its limited opening weekend the film made $312,100 from four theaters for a per-venue average of $78,025, the fifth best of 2019.[36] The film went wide at 1,480 theaters the following weekend and, despite being projected to gross around $10 million, finished sixth with $5.1 million. The audience was 58% female, with 60% being between 18 and 34 years old.[37] The following weekend the film made $4.7 million (a total of $8.3 million over the five-day Christmas frame), falling to ninth.[38] The film's box office results were seen as a disappointment, with The Hill saying that the presence of other projects about Ailes, such as the documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes and the Showtime series The Loudest Voice, had lowered the demand for a film on the subject.[39] Forbes also noted that audiences likely do not want to "shell out movie theater money and time to watch a film about women being treated terribly by powerful men... especially (generally speaking) women".[40]

Critical response edit

 
 
The performances of Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie received critical acclaim, earning them Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 68% based on 334 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Bombshell benefits from a terrific cast and a worthy subject, but its impact is muffled by a frustrating inability to go deeper than the sensationalistic surface."[41] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on reviews from 46 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[42] Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film an average 4 out of 5 stars, with 70% saying they would definitely recommend it.[37]

Variety's Owen Gleiberman gave the film a positive review and wrote: "Bombshell is a scalding and powerful movie about what selling, in America, has become. The film is about selling sex, selling a candidate, selling yourself, selling the truth. And about how at Fox News all those things came together."[43] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "The actors throw themselves into their roles with terrific zeal, enlivened by the often blunt dialogue and the issues at stake."[44] Kevin Maher of The Times gave the film 4/5 stars, describing it as "a timely satirical takedown that finds black humour and absurdist comedy in the subject of workplace sexual harassment while never losing sight of its devastating repercussions."[45] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film 3/4 stars, calling it "an absorbing, well-crafted chronicle of the sexual harassment accusations that forced Fox News founding CEO Roger Ailes to resign in disgrace."[46]

Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times gave the film 2/4 stars, writing that it "went wrong"; much of it due to Charles Randolph's "cutesy screenplay ... which unfolds at a cartoony pace more suitable to a dark comedy."[47] Simran Hans of The Observer gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "What happened to these women is appalling; that the film takes such pains to sand down the politics of its central characters to make them more sympathetic undermines its entire thesis. Kelly's racist attitudes are smoothed over, while Carlson's homophobia is conveniently erased." Hans goes on to argue that the film would have been more complete had it engaged with the "tension" between its protagonists' dual roles as perpetuators of sexism themselves, owing to their status as conservative icons, and also as women harmed by a deeply sexist organization. Hans contends that by presenting the protagonists simply as sympathetic characters the film fails to make sufficient criticism of these women and their role as cogs in an organization which espouses rightwing ideology.[48] Linda Holmes of NPR wrote: "It has a few strong moments, mostly courtesy of Robbie, but it's both underwhelming and overworked, inelegantly structured and missing something fundamental at the core."[49] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal said that the film was "a movie with a compelling story to tell turns into a blunt-force polemic that can't stop hammering its message home."[50]

Reactions from the depicted edit

In January 2020, Kelly posted a 30-minute video on her YouTube channel of a roundtable discussion, including her, Huddy, Bakhtiar, Brunt and former Fox News producer Julie Zann and their reactions and opinions after viewing a screening of the film. The panel confirmed many details depicted, including having to do the "spin" to show off their bodies to Ailes in private; Zann tearfully noted that reality was "worse than that" and the filmmakers "let Roger off easy".[51][52][15] Kelly took particular issue with the scene where Robbie's character blames Kelly for not speaking up, calling the scene victim blaming and noting that the scene was "written by a man"; however, she also noted that the scene belongs in the film as a reminder to herself that she could have done more to help other victims.[51] She also felt the film "took liberties" with her story and specifically denied that she told Murdoch the question she was going to ask Donald Trump in advance of the debate or that Ailes liked the question. "The notion that Roger liked the Donald Trump 'woman' question because it created controversy and a TV moment was not true. Roger did not like the question — at all — and was very angry at me for asking it. At one point [he] actually said to me, 'No more female empowerment stuff!'."[53][51]

Accolades edit

At the 92nd Academy Awards, it earned three nominations: Best Actress (Theron), Best Supporting Actress (Robbie), and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, winning the latter. The film also received two nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards (for Theron and Robbie), four at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards (Theron, Robbie, and Kidman, as well as Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture) and three at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards (Theron, Robbie, and Best Makeup and Hair). The theme song, "One Little Soldier", performed by Regina Spektor, won the 2020 "Best Song Written or Recorded for a Film" from the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients Result Ref.
AACTA Awards January 3, 2020 Best International Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [54]
Best International Supporting Actor John Lithgow Nominated
Best International Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated
Margot Robbie Won
AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards January 11, 2020 Best Movie for Grownups Bombshell Nominated [55]
[56]
Readers' Choice Bombshell Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated
Best Ensemble Bombshell Nominated
Academy Awards February 9, 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [57]
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker Won
British Academy Film Awards February 2, 2020 Best Actress in a Leading Role Charlize Theron Nominated [58]
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Margot Robbie Nominated
Best Makeup and Hair Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro and Anne Morgan Won
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 12, 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [59]
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated
Best Acting Ensemble Bombshell Nominated
Best Makeup Vivian Baker, Cristina Waltz and Richard Redlefsen Won
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 16, 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron 3rd Place [60]
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie 2nd Place
Detroit Film Critics Society December 9, 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [61]
Dorian Awards January 8, 2020 Supporting Film Performance of the Year — Actress Margot Robbie Nominated [62]
[63]
Florida Film Critics Circle December 23, 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [64]
Best Supporting Actor John Lithgow Runner-up
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Runner-up
GLAAD Media Awards March 19, 2020 Outstanding Film – Wide Release Bombshell Nominated [65]
Golden Globe Awards January 5, 2020 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Charlize Theron Nominated [66]
[67]
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Margot Robbie Nominated
Heartland Film Festival October 10–20, 2019 Truly Moving Picture Award Bombshell Won [68]
Hollywood Critics Association January 9, 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [69]
[70]
Best Hair and Makeup Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker Won
Houston Film Critics Society January 2, 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [71]
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated
London Film Critics' Circle January 30, 2020 Actress of the Year Charlize Theron Nominated [72]
Supporting Actress of the Year Margot Robbie Nominated
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards January 11, 2020 Best Contemporary Make-Up Vivian Baker, Cristina Waltz and Richard Redlefsen Won [73]
Best Special Make-Up Effects Vivian Baker, Richard Redlefsen and Kazu Hiro Won
Best Contemporary Hair Styling Anne Morgan, Jaime Leigh McIntosh and Adruitha Lee Won
Palm Springs International Film Festival January 2, 2020 International Star Award, Actress Charlize Theron Won [74]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle December 16, 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [75]
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated
Satellite Awards December 19, 2019 Best Motion Picture – Drama Bombshell Nominated [76]
Best Actress – Drama Charlize Theron Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated
Margot Robbie Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards January 19, 2020 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Bombshell Nominated [77]
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Charlize Theron Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nicole Kidman Nominated
Margot Robbie Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association December 15, 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated [78]
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Won
Women Film Critics Circle December 9, 2019 Best Movie About Women Bombshell Nominated [79]
Adrienne Shelly Award Bombshell Won
Best Female Action Heroes The Women of Bombshell Nominated

See also edit

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bombshell, 2019, film, bombshell, 2019, american, drama, film, directed, roach, written, charles, randolph, film, stars, charlize, theron, nicole, kidman, margot, robbie, based, accounts, women, news, expose, roger, ailes, sexual, harassment, john, lithgow, ka. Bombshell is a 2019 American drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph The film stars Charlize Theron Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie and is based on the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment John Lithgow Kate McKinnon Connie Britton Malcolm McDowell and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles BombshellTheatrical release posterDirected byJay RoachWritten byCharles RandolphProduced byAaron L Glibert Jay Roach Robert Graf Michelle Graham Charles Randolph Margaret Riley Charlize Theron A J Dix Beth KonoStarringCharlize Theron Nicole Kidman Margot Robbie John Lithgow Kate McKinnon Connie Britton Malcolm McDowell Allison JanneyCinematographyBarry AckroydEdited byJon PollMusic byTheodore ShapiroProductioncompaniesBron Studios Annapurna Pictures Denver and Delilah Productions Gramsci Lighthouse Management amp Media Creative Wealth MediaDistributed byLionsgateRelease dateDecember 13 2019 2019 12 13 United States Running time109 minutes 1 CountriesUnited StatesCanadaLanguageEnglishBudget 32 million 2 Box office 61 4 million 3 4 Bombshell was released in December 13 2019 The film s box office results were seen as disappointing but it received mostly positive reviews It garnered praise for its acting as well as its choices of makeup and hair which won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling while earning some criticism of the screenplay and inaccuracies in the plot and character portrayals Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Casting 3 3 Filming 4 Release 5 Reception 5 1 Box office 5 2 Critical response 5 3 Reactions from the depicted 6 Accolades 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksPlot editAfter co moderating the 2016 Republican debate Megyn Kelly faces numerous insults from Donald Trump who is angry because she asked him about his offensive comments toward women Under pressure from the network and after receiving death threats and unwanted paparazzi attention Kelly eventually reconciles with Trump Meanwhile Gretchen Carlson is removed as co anchor of the popular Fox amp Friends show and is transferred to a less popular show Inundated by sexist comments on and off the air including by Roger Ailes Carlson meets with lawyers Nancy Smith and Neil Mullin who explain that Carlson s contract prevents her from suing the network but she can sue Ailes personally On her first day on The O Reilly Factor Kayla Pospisil meets fellow female staffer Jess Carr and the two have sex The next day Ailes begins sexually harassing Pospisil Pospisil begins to tell Carr about what happened but Carr interrupts saying she cannot get involved Carlson is later fired ostensibly for her on air support of the federal assault weapons ban and decides to sue Ailes When the news breaks the next day Ailes denies the allegations and Kelly admits to her core team Ailes sexually harassed her when she started at Fox In the following weeks despite a number of other women voicing their public support against Ailes Kelly conspicuously refuses to make a comment on Carlson s accusations After more women accuse Ailes Kelly starts to find other women at the network Kelly visits Pospisil and the two confide in each other Kelly advises Pospisil to come forward and after consulting with Carr she does Through her attorneys Carlson later informs Ailes she has recorded conversations to support her claims deliberately withholding them from Ailes s lawyers in order to undermine his credibility Defeated Ailes is fired by Fox co creator Rupert Murdoch Ailes settles Carlson s lawsuit for 20 million and an apology from Fox but the agreement contains a non disclosure agreement Fox eventually paid the victims of sexual harassment 50 million while paying Ailes and O Reilly 65 million in severance Cast editCharlize Theron as Megyn Kelly Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil composite character 5 John Lithgow as Roger Ailes Kate McKinnon as Jess Carr Connie Britton as Beth Ailes Malcolm McDowell as Rupert Murdoch Allison Janney as Susan Estrich Rob Delaney as Gil Norman Mark Duplass as Douglas Brunt Liv Hewson as Lily Balin Brigette Lundy Paine as Julia Clarke Richard Kind as Rudy Giuliani Stephen Root as Neil Mullin Mark Moses as Bill Shine Holland Taylor as Faye Brooke Smith as Irena Brighanti Ben Lawson as Lachlan Murdoch Josh Lawson as James Murdoch Alanna Ubach as Jeanine Pirro Bree Condon as Kimberly Guilfoyle Kevin Dorff as Bill O Reilly Michael Buie as Bret Baier Marc Evan Jackson as Chris Wallace Anne Ramsay as Greta Van Susteren Jennifer Morrison as Juliet Huddy Ashley Greene as Abby Huntsman Lisa Canning as Harris Faulkner Elisabeth Rohm as Martha MacCallum Alice Eve as Ainsley Earhardt P J Byrne as Neil Cavuto Tony Plana as Geraldo RiveraProduction editDevelopment edit On May 18 2017 shortly after the death of Fox News founder Roger Ailes it was announced that Annapurna Pictures was in the early stages of developing a film centered on the allegations made against Ailes by female employees including Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson Charles Randolph was expected to write the film s screenplay 6 On May 22 2018 it was announced that Jay Roach had been hired to direct the film 7 On August 1 2018 it was announced that Roach Randolph Beth Kono AJ Dix and Margaret Riley would act as the film s producers and that Denver and Delilah Productions would serve as the film s production company 8 On October 9 2018 it was announced that Annapurna Pictures had dropped out of producing the film reportedly due to concerns over the film s growing budget At the time of the announcement it was confirmed that Bron Studios was staying on and that producers were looking at Focus Features Participant Media and Amblin Entertainment to help finance the film 9 The following week Lionsgate began negotiating to join the production after Focus Features and Amblin Entertainment passed on the project 10 By the end of the month Lionsgate was reported to be closing a deal to distribute the film 11 In December 2018 it was reported that Theodore Shapiro would compose the film s score and that Barry Ackroyd would serve as the film s cinematographer 12 13 The film was given the working title Fair and Balanced before being announced as Bombshell in August 2019 14 Kelly later stated that she had no involvement with the film 15 Casting edit Alongside the directing and writing announcements it was reported that Charlize Theron had entered negotiations to portray Kelly in the film 7 On August 1 2018 it was reported that Nicole Kidman had begun negotiations to star as Carlson and that Margot Robbie was in talks to play a composite associate producer at the network with Theron confirmed to star 8 16 Later that month it was announced that John Lithgow had been cast as Roger Ailes 17 In September 2018 it was reported that Allison Janney had been cast as lawyer Susan Estrich and that Kate McKinnon had been cast to play a fictional producer 18 19 In October 2018 it was announced that Malcolm McDowell Mark Duplass and Alice Eve had been cast as Rupert Murdoch Douglas Brunt and Ainsley Earhardt respectively 20 11 In November 2018 it was reported that Brigette Lundy Paine and Liv Hewson had been cast as two fictional characters 21 and that Alanna Ubach 22 Elisabeth Rohm Spencer Garrett Connie Britton Ashley Greene Brooke Smith Michael Buie Nazanin Boniadi and Bree Condon had been cast as Jeanine Pirro Martha MacCallum Sean Hannity Beth Ailes Abby Huntsman Irena Brigante Bret Baier Rudi Bakhtiar and Kimberly Guilfoyle respectively 23 24 25 26 27 28 In December 2018 it was announced that Rob Delaney had joined the cast of the film in an undisclosed role and that Ahna O Reilly had been cast as Julie Roginsky 29 30 In June 2019 Robin Weigert announced she had joined the cast of the film 31 Filming edit Principal photography for the film began on October 22 2018 in Los Angeles California 32 33 Release editThe film was scheduled for release on December 20 2019 34 However it was pushed up to December 13 2019 in a limited release opening to public viewing on December 20 35 Reception editBox office edit Bombshell grossed 31 8 million in the United States and Canada and 29 6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 61 4 million 3 4 In its limited opening weekend the film made 312 100 from four theaters for a per venue average of 78 025 the fifth best of 2019 36 The film went wide at 1 480 theaters the following weekend and despite being projected to gross around 10 million finished sixth with 5 1 million The audience was 58 female with 60 being between 18 and 34 years old 37 The following weekend the film made 4 7 million a total of 8 3 million over the five day Christmas frame falling to ninth 38 The film s box office results were seen as a disappointment with The Hill saying that the presence of other projects about Ailes such as the documentary Divide and Conquer The Story of Roger Ailes and the Showtime series The Loudest Voice had lowered the demand for a film on the subject 39 Forbes also noted that audiences likely do not want to shell out movie theater money and time to watch a film about women being treated terribly by powerful men especially generally speaking women 40 Critical response edit nbsp nbsp The performances of Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie received critical acclaim earning them Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 68 based on 334 reviews with an average rating of 6 6 10 The website s critics consensus reads Bombshell benefits from a terrific cast and a worthy subject but its impact is muffled by a frustrating inability to go deeper than the sensationalistic surface 41 On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100 based on reviews from 46 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 42 Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film an average 4 out of 5 stars with 70 saying they would definitely recommend it 37 Variety s Owen Gleiberman gave the film a positive review and wrote Bombshell is a scalding and powerful movie about what selling in America has become The film is about selling sex selling a candidate selling yourself selling the truth And about how at Fox News all those things came together 43 Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote The actors throw themselves into their roles with terrific zeal enlivened by the often blunt dialogue and the issues at stake 44 Kevin Maher of The Times gave the film 4 5 stars describing it as a timely satirical takedown that finds black humour and absurdist comedy in the subject of workplace sexual harassment while never losing sight of its devastating repercussions 45 Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film 3 4 stars calling it an absorbing well crafted chronicle of the sexual harassment accusations that forced Fox News founding CEO Roger Ailes to resign in disgrace 46 Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times gave the film 2 4 stars writing that it went wrong much of it due to Charles Randolph s cutesy screenplay which unfolds at a cartoony pace more suitable to a dark comedy 47 Simran Hans of The Observer gave the film 2 5 stars writing What happened to these women is appalling that the film takes such pains to sand down the politics of its central characters to make them more sympathetic undermines its entire thesis Kelly s racist attitudes are smoothed over while Carlson s homophobia is conveniently erased Hans goes on to argue that the film would have been more complete had it engaged with the tension between its protagonists dual roles as perpetuators of sexism themselves owing to their status as conservative icons and also as women harmed by a deeply sexist organization Hans contends that by presenting the protagonists simply as sympathetic characters the film fails to make sufficient criticism of these women and their role as cogs in an organization which espouses rightwing ideology 48 Linda Holmes of NPR wrote It has a few strong moments mostly courtesy of Robbie but it s both underwhelming and overworked inelegantly structured and missing something fundamental at the core 49 Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal said that the film was a movie with a compelling story to tell turns into a blunt force polemic that can t stop hammering its message home 50 Reactions from the depicted edit In January 2020 Kelly posted a 30 minute video on her YouTube channel of a roundtable discussion including her Huddy Bakhtiar Brunt and former Fox News producer Julie Zann and their reactions and opinions after viewing a screening of the film The panel confirmed many details depicted including having to do the spin to show off their bodies to Ailes in private Zann tearfully noted that reality was worse than that and the filmmakers let Roger off easy 51 52 15 Kelly took particular issue with the scene where Robbie s character blames Kelly for not speaking up calling the scene victim blaming and noting that the scene was written by a man however she also noted that the scene belongs in the film as a reminder to herself that she could have done more to help other victims 51 She also felt the film took liberties with her story and specifically denied that she told Murdoch the question she was going to ask Donald Trump in advance of the debate or that Ailes liked the question The notion that Roger liked the Donald Trump woman question because it created controversy and a TV moment was not true Roger did not like the question at all and was very angry at me for asking it At one point he actually said to me No more female empowerment stuff 53 51 Accolades editAt the 92nd Academy Awards it earned three nominations Best Actress Theron Best Supporting Actress Robbie and Best Makeup and Hairstyling winning the latter The film also received two nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards for Theron and Robbie four at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards Theron Robbie and Kidman as well as Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and three at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards Theron Robbie and Best Makeup and Hair The theme song One Little Soldier performed by Regina Spektor won the 2020 Best Song Written or Recorded for a Film from the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients Result Ref AACTA Awards January 3 2020 Best International Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 54 Best International Supporting Actor John Lithgow Nominated Best International Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated Margot Robbie Won AARP s Movies for Grownups Awards January 11 2020 Best Movie for Grownups Bombshell Nominated 55 56 Readers Choice Bombshell Nominated Best Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated Best Ensemble Bombshell Nominated Academy Awards February 9 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 57 Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated Best Makeup and Hairstyling Kazu Hiro Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker Won British Academy Film Awards February 2 2020 Best Actress in a Leading Role Charlize Theron Nominated 58 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Margot Robbie Nominated Best Makeup and Hair Vivian Baker Kazu Hiro and Anne Morgan Won Critics Choice Movie Awards January 12 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 59 Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated Best Acting Ensemble Bombshell Nominated Best Makeup Vivian Baker Cristina Waltz and Richard Redlefsen Won Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 16 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron 3rd Place 60 Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie 2nd Place Detroit Film Critics Society December 9 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 61 Dorian Awards January 8 2020 Supporting Film Performance of the Year Actress Margot Robbie Nominated 62 63 Florida Film Critics Circle December 23 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 64 Best Supporting Actor John Lithgow Runner up Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Runner up GLAAD Media Awards March 19 2020 Outstanding Film Wide Release Bombshell Nominated 65 Golden Globe Awards January 5 2020 Best Actress Motion Picture Drama Charlize Theron Nominated 66 67 Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture Margot Robbie Nominated Heartland Film Festival October 10 20 2019 Truly Moving Picture Award Bombshell Won 68 Hollywood Critics Association January 9 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 69 70 Best Hair and Makeup Kazu Hiro Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker Won Houston Film Critics Society January 2 2020 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 71 Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated London Film Critics Circle January 30 2020 Actress of the Year Charlize Theron Nominated 72 Supporting Actress of the Year Margot Robbie Nominated Make Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards January 11 2020 Best Contemporary Make Up Vivian Baker Cristina Waltz and Richard Redlefsen Won 73 Best Special Make Up Effects Vivian Baker Richard Redlefsen and Kazu Hiro Won Best Contemporary Hair Styling Anne Morgan Jaime Leigh McIntosh and Adruitha Lee Won Palm Springs International Film Festival January 2 2020 International Star Award Actress Charlize Theron Won 74 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle December 16 2019 Best Actress Charlize Theron Nominated 75 Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie Nominated Satellite Awards December 19 2019 Best Motion Picture Drama Bombshell Nominated 76 Best Actress Drama Charlize Theron Nominated Best Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman Nominated Margot Robbie Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards January 19 2020 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Bombshell Nominated 77 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Charlize Theron Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nicole Kidman Nominated Margot Robbie Nominated St Louis Film Critics Association December 15 2019 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