Adaptation

…directed his second feature film, Adaptation, which was also written by Kaufman. The acclaimed dramedy centres on a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) who has difficulty adapting a book about orchids into a movie. A parallel story line follows the book’s author (Meryl Streep) and the orchid thief (Chris…

His screenplay for Adaptation (2002), again directed by Jonze, was inspired by the difficulties that he had had in adapting journalist Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief for the screen. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, the film’s dual narrative weaves together scenes from Orlean’s book…

…Cage appeared in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation, playing twin brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman, and was again nominated for an Academy Award. That same year he made his directorial debut with Sonny, a film he also produced. After portraying a firefighter in World Trade Center (2006), Oliver Stone’s film about the…

…John Laroche in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation. (2002), a convoluted self-reflexive tale of the attempt by Charlie Kaufman (and his fictional brother Donald) to write a screen adaptation of Susan Orleans’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief (1998); Cooper earned both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for his performance.

…nomination—for best supporting actress in Adaptation (2002); Katharine Hepburn originally held the record with 12 nominations. That same year she played Hannah Pitt and Ethel Rosenberg in the HBO miniseries Angels in America, which also starred Emma Thompson and Al Pacino; she won an Emmy for her performance. Streep earned…