Into the Woods (film)

Into the Woods
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rob Marshall
Produced by	Rob Marshall John DeLuca Marc Platt Callum McDougall
Screenplay by	James Lapine
Based on	Into the Woods  by Stephen Sondheim James Lapine
Starring	Meryl Streep Emily Blunt James Corden Anna Kendrick Chris Pine Tracey Ullman Christine Baranski Johnny Depp
Narrated by	James Corden
Music by	Stephen Sondheim
Cinematography	Dion Beebe
Edited by	Wyatt Smith
Production company	Walt Disney Pictures Lucamar Productions
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release dates	December 8, 2014 (2014-12-08) (Ziegfeld Theatre) December 25, 2014 (2014-12-25)
Running time	124 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$50 million[2]
Box office	$204.3 million[3]

Into the Woods is a 2014 American fantasy musical drama film directed by Rob Marshall, and adapted to the screen by James Lapine from his and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name.^[4] It features an ensemble cast that includes Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, and Johnny Depp. Inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales of "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Jack and the Beanstalk", and "Rapunzel", the film is a fantasy genre crossover centered on a childless couple, who set out to end a curse placed on them by a vengeful witch. Ultimately, the characters are forced to rectify the consequences of their actions.^[5]

After several unsuccessful attempts by other studios and producers of adapting Into the Woods to film, Walt Disney Pictures announced in 2012 that it was producing an adaptation of the musical, with Marshall directing and John DeLuca serving as producer. Principal photography commenced in September 2013, and took place entirely in the United Kingdom, including at Shepperton Studios in London.

Into the Woods held its world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 8, 2014, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 25, 2014.^[6] The film was both critically and commercially successful; it grossed $204 million worldwide and received praise for its cast, tone, and production merits.^[7] Into the Woods received three Academy Award nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, including a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Streep; as well as three Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

Plot

A Baker (James Corden) and his Wife (Emily Blunt) wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon the Baker's family by a Witch (Meryl Streep) who found the Baker's father (Simon Russell Beale) robbing her garden while his Wife was pregnant. The Baker's father also stole some beans which caused the Witch's mother to punish her with the curse of ugliness. The Witch offers to lift the curse, but only if the Baker and his Wife obtain four critical items for her to make a certain potion: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold. The Witch later tells the Baker that she asked him to do this task for her because she is not allowed to touch any of the objects.

The Witch's demands eventually bring the Baker and his Wife into contact with Jack (Daniel Huttlestone), who is selling his beloved cow Milky White and to whom the Baker offers magic beans left him by his father (which were stolen from the Witch) which grow into a large beanstalk; with Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), whose ruby cape the couple notices when she stops to buy sweets on her way to grandmother's house; with Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy), the Witch's adopted daughter (the child that she took from the Baker's parents in exchange for the Baker's father taking the greens from her garden), whose tower the Baker's Wife passes in the woods; and with Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), who also runs into the Baker's Wife while fleeing from the pursuing Prince (Chris Pine).

After a series of failed attempts and misadventures, the Baker and his Wife finally are able to gather the items necessary to break the spell. Meanwhile, each of the other characters receive their "happy endings": Cinderella and Rapunzel marry their Princes; Jack provides for his mother (Tracey Ullman) by stealing riches from the Giant in the sky, and kills the pursuing Giant by cutting down the beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother (Annette Crosbie) are saved from the Big Bad Wolf (Johnny Depp) by the Baker; and the Witch regains her youth and beauty after drinking the potion.

However, each of the characters learns their "happily ever after" is not so happy: the Baker is worried he is a poor father to his newborn baby, like his father before him; Cinderella is disenchanted by royal life; Rapunzel is constantly scared of the outside world, having never experienced it; and the Witch learns that she has lost most of her powers with her restored youth. The growth of a second beanstalk from the last remaining magic bean allows the Giant's Wife (Frances de la Tour) to climb down and threaten the kingdom and its inhabitants if they do not deliver Jack in retribution for killing her husband. Meanwhile, what the characters did to achieve their happy endings continue to haunt them: Cinderella's Prince kisses the Baker's Wife who soon dies after falling off a cliff while fleeing the Giant's Wife; The Witch loses Rapunzel forever when she runs off with her prince (Billy Magnussen) in spite; Cinderella and the Prince break up after she hears of his infidelity with the Baker's Wife; and Red Riding Hood's Mother and Grandmother, along with Jack's Mother, are killed in the Giant's Wife's rampage.

In the aftermath, the surviving characters debate the morality of handing Jack over, and soon quickly blame each other for their individual actions that led to the tragedy, ultimately blaming the Witch. She throws away her remaining beans, reenacting her mother's curse and apparently allowing it to destroy her, leaving the rest of the group to their fate.

The Baker, Cinderella, Jack, and Red Riding Hood resolve to kill the threatening Giant's Wife, though Cinderella and the Baker try to explain to the distraught Red Riding Hood and Jack the complicated morality of retribution and revenge. The Giant's Wife is killed, and the characters move forward with their ruined lives: the Baker, thinking of his Wife, is determined to be a good father; Cinderella leaves the Prince and decides to help the Baker; and Jack and Red Riding Hood, now orphans, live with the Baker and Cinderella. The Baker begins to tell their story to his son—"Once upon a time..."

Cast

Stage-to-screen changes

While it was initially reported that Disney had decided to make some major plot changes for the film version in order to make it more family-friendly,^[21] Stephen Sondheim revealed that this was not the case and that any changes in the film version had been approved by him and James Lapine.^[22][23]

However, the film does slightly differ from the stage production. The songs "I Guess This Is Goodbye",^[24] "Maybe They're Magic",^[25] "First Midnight" and "Second Midnight" interludes, "Ever After" (Act I finale of the original play),^[24] "So Happy",^[26] "Into the Woods" Reprise, "Agony" Reprise^[24] and "No More" (performed by the Baker) were cut from the film,^[27] although both "Ever After" and "No More" are used as instrumentals in the film. Meanwhile, many of the songs in the film have slightly different lyrics than their stage counterparts due to the slight tweaking of storylines.

Other changes include a major reduction of the significant role of the "Mysterious Man", who manipulates much of the action in the first act and is eventually revealed to be the Baker's father. Also, the character of the Narrator is also deleted, and the film is instead narrated by the Baker.^[28] The minor role of Cinderella's Father was cut, and he is instead mentioned as deceased. Due to the film's compressed storyline, Rapunzel's pregnancy is deleted, as are the Princes' pursuit of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. In addition, the subplot where the two princes have affairs with Snow White and Sleeping Beauty is eliminated.^[28] In the film, the Giant's Wife attacks during the marriages of Cinderella and Rapunzel to their respective Princes, no more than a few weeks after the events of act one, while in the stage show, nearly a year passes between the first and second acts. Rapunzel's ultimate fate is also changed: rather than being killed by the giant, she refuses to cooperate with her mother and flees with her prince.^[28]

Similarly, much of the violence and sexual content is slightly toned down from the original musical. The death of Jack's Mother is less violent in the film; on stage, the Steward clubs her to death with his staff, in the film, he simply shoves her to the ground and she hits her head on a log. Similarly, the tryst between the Baker's Wife and the Prince in the film is vague enough so that it could be inferred that the Baker's Wife only kissed the Prince, rather than having an affair with him. The death of the Baker's Wife is not explicitly shown in the film, and the cause of her death is changed from being simply trampled by the Giant's Wife to accidentally backing off the edge of a cliff while fleeing from the Giant's Wife.

While it was initially reported that the film version would feature two new songs: a duet for the Baker and his Wife called "Rainbows", originally written for a 1992 film adaptation that was never made, and a new song for the Witch, eventually titled "She'll Be Back.".^[29] In the end, neither song appears in the finished film: "Rainbows" was cut before shooting began and "She'll Be Back", though filmed, was cut from the film on the grounds that it slowed the story down. "She'll Be Back" was included as a bonus feature on the film's DVD and Blu-ray release.^[30]

Production

Early development

Early attempts of adapting Into the Woods to film occurred in the early 1990s, with a script written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. A reading was held with a cast that included Robin Williams as The Baker, Goldie Hawn as The Baker's Wife, Cher as The Witch, Danny DeVito as The Giant, Steve Martin as The Wolf, and Roseanne Barr as Jack's Mother.^[31] By 1991, Columbia Pictures and Jim Henson Productions were also developing a film adaptation with Craig Zadan as producer and Rob Minkoff as director.^[32][33] In 1997, Columbia put the film into turnaround, with Minkoff still attached as director, and Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, and Susan Sarandon reportedly in talks to star.^[34] After the report by Variety, a film adaptation of Into the Woods remained inactive for 15 years.

Development at Disney

After the critical and commercial success of Chicago in 2002, director Rob Marshall approached Stephen Sondheim as he was interested in adapting one of his musicals such as Follies and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, although Sondheim suggested Into the Woods instead.^[35] Marshall concurred, but development of the project was then postponed while he focused on directing Memoirs of a Geisha and Nine. In 2011, Marshall's interest in the project was rekindled when he heard a speech by President Barack Obama on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks to the families of the 9/11 victims, which seemed to evoke the same message as the musical's most important song, "No One Is Alone".^[36] Marshall firmly believed that Into the Woods was “a fairy tale for the post-9/11 generation".^[37] In January 2012, Marshall approached Walt Disney Pictures—for whom he had just directed Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides—and pitched the idea to the studio,^[35] with Lapine writing the script and Sondheim "expected" to write new songs.^[38] Academy Award-winner Dion Beebe, who previously collaborated with Marshall on Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Nine, served as cinematographer.^[39] Sondheim confirmed that a new song had been written for the film.^[40]

With Disney's backing, a three-day reading of the entire updated screenplay took place in New York in October 2012 under Marshall's direction, with Nina Arianda as the Baker's Wife, Victoria Clark as Cinderella's Mother/Granny/Giant, James Corden as the Baker, Donna Murphy as the Witch, Christine Baranski as Cinderella's Stepmother, Tammy Blanchard as Florinda, Ivan Hernandez as the Wolf, Megan Hilty as Lucinda, Cheyenne Jackson as Rapunzel's Prince, Allison Janney as Jack's Mother, Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, Michael McGrath as Steward/Mysterious Man, Laura Osnes as Rapunzel, Taylor Trensch as Jack, Casey Whyland as Little Red Riding Hood, and Patrick Wilson as Cinderella's Prince.^[41] It was this reading which ultimately convinced Walt Disney Studios president Sean Bailey to green-light the film despite ongoing concerns about the dark nature of the original musical (which Disney executives had begun to understand since Marshall's original pitch).^[35] However, Disney (which self-finances all its films)^[42] provided only a relatively small production budget of $50 million (relative to other feature-length fantasy films on its development slate), in turn forcing both cast and crew to accept pay cuts to work on the film.^[35]

Reports subsequently surfaced in January 2013 that Meryl Streep had been cast to play the Witch.^[43][44] Streep had instituted a personal "no witch" rule after she turned 40 and was offered three witch roles, but ultimately broke her own rule to do a Sondheim role again.^[35] (As a young Yale student, she had participated in the original production of Sondheim's The Frogs.) During the same month, it was reported that Janney had been confirmed to join the film as well.^[45] Five months later, however, Tracey Ullman was cast as Jack's Mother instead.^[13]

In April 2013, Johnny Depp was in final negotiations, along with Streep, to join the film.^[8][15] The Hollywood Reporter reported that to help make the film on such a tight budget, Depp agreed as a favor to Disney and to Marshall (whom he had just worked with in On Stranger Tides) to a "boarding" arrangement, in which he would appear in a minor role for a fee of $1 million, instead of his typical fee of $20 million for a starring role.^[46] In May, James Corden, who took part in the reading of the screenplay, was in talks to play the role of the Baker.^[47] On May 10, 2013, Disney confirmed the casting of Streep, Depp, and Corden as the Witch, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Baker, respectively.^[10] That same month, Emily Blunt and Christine Baranski were cast, respectively, as the Baker's Wife and Cinderella's Stepmother.^[14][48][49] Marshall later confirmed that Blunt was selected for her "warm[th]" and likeability to ensure the emotional impact of the sudden death of the Baker's Wife: "[T]hat’s very important for that character because it’s the heart of the piece and you really have to love her so when she’s gone it should feel like a kick in the gut."^[36] After she was cast, Blunt discovered she was pregnant and her costume and choreography had to be adjusted accordingly.^[35][50] However, her "overweight" appearance during production actually fit in with the role of the Baker's Wife;^[35] as she explained, "I feel like she would have eaten a lot of carbs working in the bakery."^[50]

Also in May, Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Pine entered negotiations to play the Princes.^[12] However, Gyllenhaal dropped out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with another film, Nightcrawler, and was subsequently replaced by Billy Magnussen.^[19][51] One month later, Anna Kendrick began talks to play Cinderella in the film.^[11] In June 2013, The Walt Disney Studios publicly announced that the film had been greenlighted, and scheduled a release date for Christmas Day 2014.^[6][52] In July, MacKenzie Mauzy, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch and Daniel Huttlestone joined the cast.^[9][17][18] Sophia Grace Brownlee was originally cast as Little Red Riding Hood.^[53] Brownlee's casting attracted controversy due to her age and the sexual undertones present between Little Red and the Wolf.^[54][55][56] Mauzy later revealed that she first auditioned for Cinderella but did not get the part. However, director Marshall saw her audition tape and brought her back in for Rapunzel, after recognizing "the 'vulnerability' and 'emotion' Mauzy could bring to Rapunzel after she read just one line", as he recalled.^[57] The film's official cast and plot synopsis were revealed at the D23 Expo on August 10, 2013.^[58][59] On September 16, 2013, Lilla Crawford was confirmed as playing the character of Little Red Riding Hood, despite previous reports suggesting Brownlee.^[16] Crawford auditioned for Marshall via Skype, who offered her the role within two hours; she was on a flight to London the next day.^[35] Later on, Dominic Brownlee spoke about the withdrawal of his daughter Sophia Grace from the movie: "After careful consideration, we the parents of Sophia Grace, felt that as rehearsals progressed that she was too young for this part. It was a joint decision between us and the director and producer of Into the Woods to withdraw Sophia Grace from the film."^[60] Apart from Crawford, the casting of Richard Glover, Frances de la Tour, Simon Russell Beale, Joanna Riding, and Annette Crosbie in other roles was also separately announced later on September 16.^[20]

Filming

In July 2013, before filming began, Marshall put the cast through six weeks^[35] of rehearsals on a soundstage and blocked their scenes.^[2] In August, the cast members visited Angel Recording Studios to separately record their respective parts in the presence of Sondheim himself.^[2] Over 90% of the vocal tracks in the final version of the film are from the recording studio sessions, while the rest were recorded on location or on the set.^[2] The advantage of blocking and rehearsing all scenes first was that the cast members could then precisely calibrate their voices in the recording studio to the planned appearance of each scene when later filmed, thereby minimizing the slightly disconcerting disconnection between vocals and choreography typical of music videos.^[61]

Principal photography took place at London's Shepperton Studios in September 2013, with additional filming taking place at Dover Castle, Waverley Abbey^[62][63] and Richmond Park.^[64][65] A forest of ancient pine trees in Windsor Great Park was used for many of the scenes in the woods.^[66] Marshall struggled with how to stage the melodramatic duet "Agony" in the forest until discovering online that Windsor Great Park had an artificial waterfall, which turned out to be the perfect location for the song.^[66] The production used Arri Alexa cameras configured in a two-camera setup.^[61] Footage was edited together in Avid Media Composer.^[61] The exterior of Byfleet Manor in Surrey served as Cinderella's home.^[67]

The filmmakers spent a whole day shooting scenes which involved Rapunzel's hair being climbed upon.^[57] Mauzy claimed that the filmmakers wanted to take advantage of her blonde hair, and that the top of Rapunzel's hair appeared in the film was her own real hair; make-up artists only braided it into the extension.^[57] This hair extension was engineered by hair designer Peter King.^[68] After testing loose, flowing hair which King found "uncontrollable", he decided to have twenty-seven wefts of real hair woven together into a 30-foot braid, a design which took inspiration from an Arthur Rackham illustration of Rapunzel.^[68] In order to bring in enough real Russian hair strands needed for the extension, King and his team had to work with several distributors from Germany and England.^[68] The hair-braiding process required three people, each holding a separate strand and weaving in and out.^[68] King also dyed the wefts for them to match Mauzy's champagne blonde hair color, and blended together six different shades from ash and strawberry to create realistic gradations and highlights.^[68] Between scenes, Mauzy had to "wrap [the hair] around her arm like huge rolls of wool", as recalled by King.^[68] A stuntman was employed to shoot hair-climbing scenes.^[57] Thin rope and metal rings were the only additional tools concealed within the braid to hold the weight of a person climbing up.^[68]

The film's final shot, which essentially merges into and links back to its first shot, actually transitions digitally between three shots: a Technocrane on location lifting as high as possible into the sky, an aerial drone flying down a valley in Wales, and a shot of an overcast sky in Manhattan, New York City.^[69] Filming concluded on November 27, 2013.^[70]

On July 14, 2014, Steve Baldwin posted on a social networking site that reshoots were made during the whole month of July.^[71] The following month, however, Rob Marshall denied the film went through re-shoots.^[72] Instead, they spent three days shooting new material that had been cut and re-added to the script after Disney screened the movie.^[72] For his role as the Wolf, Depp worked closely with the film's costume designer Colleen Atwood to create a Tex Avery-inspired costume, complete with zoot suit and fedora.^[73]

Music

As noted above, the majority of the songs were pre-recorded by the cast.^[2] The film's soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on December 15, 2014.^[74]

Release

The first official company presentation took place at the 2013 Disney D23 expo.^[75] The official teaser trailer debuted on July 31, 2014.^[76][77] A featurette was released showing behind-the-scenes clips and the vocals of Streep, Kendrick, Blunt and others.^[78] A second trailer was released on November 6, 2014.^[79]

The film held its world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 8, 2014.^[80] It was released theatrically in the United States on December 25, 2014.

Home media

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and digital download in North America on March 24, 2015.^[81]

Reception

Box office

Into the Woods grossed $128 million in North America, and $76.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $204.3 million, against a budget of $50 million.^[3]

Into the Woods began playing across North American theaters on December 24, 2014 and earned $1.1 million from late night Christmas Eve showings^[82][83] and $15.08 million on its opening day (including previews) from 2,440 theaters.^[84] Its opening day gross is the fourth-biggest Christmas Day debut and the sixth-biggest Christmas Day gross ever.^[85] The film was among one of four films put into wide release on December 25, 2014, the other three being Universal Pictures' Unbroken (3,131 theaters), Paramount Pictures' The Gambler (2,478 theaters), and TWC's Big Eyes (1,307 theaters).^[86] It earned $31,051,923 in its traditional three-day opening ($46.1 million including its Christmas Day gross) debuting at #2 at the box office behind The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, achieving the highest opening weekend for a film based on a Broadway musical (previously held by Mamma Mia!).^[87][88] The film's $3.5 million debut in Japan marked the largest opening for a 21st-century live-action musical film.^[89]

Critical response

Despite early screenings prior to the film's release, Disney issued an embargo on professional reviews of the film until two weeks before general theatrical release.^[90] Into the Woods received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 71% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 186 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's consensus reads: "On the whole, this Disney adaptation of the Sondheim classic sits comfortably at the corner of Hollywood and Broadway—even if it darkens to its detriment in the final act." The cast—particularly the performances by Streep, Blunt and Pine—received wide acclaim as well as the tone, production design, costume design, visual effects and pacing.^[91] Another aggregate, Metacritic, calculates a score of 69 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[92] In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Into the Woods an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.^[93]

The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "benefits from respect for the source material, enticing production values and a populous gallery of sharp character portraits from a delightful cast".^[94] Stephen Holden of The New York Times lauded the film, writing; "Into the Woods, the splendid Disney screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, infuses new vitality into the tired marketing concept of entertainment for 'children of all ages'".^[95] Leonard Maltin called the movie as "one of the year's best films". Similarly, Pete Hammond of Deadline praised the film as "the most dazzling movie musical since Marshall's own Chicago." and praised the performance of the cast, particularly Streep. Lou Lumerick of the New York Post called the film "this century's best musical" and lauded the performances of Streep and Blunt, calling them as giving the best female performances of the year. Scott Mendelson of Forbes gave a positive review declaring the film as "Rob Marshall's best movie ever" and praised it for its genuine entertainment and for the strong performances of the cast.^[96] Richard Corliss of Time gave a positive review, stating that the film was a "smart, appealing, upside-down children’s story for adults of all ages".^[97] Gregory Ellwood of HitFix tipped Streep as an Academy Award contender in the Best Supporting Actress category, and also praised the performance of Chris Pine.^[98]

Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair,^[99] Karen D'Souza of the San Jose Mercury News,^[100] and Dana Stevens of Slate^[101] all published critical reviews of the film. All three found much to like in the acting (especially Blunt and Pine's performances), but all three also concluded that after the various cuts and changes, the final version of the film had failed to adequately preserve the power of the dark existentialist message at the heart of the original musical's second act.^{[99][100][101]} Stevens characterized the result as a "generic dystopian bummer,"^[101] while Lawson criticized the film as a "dutiful but perfunctory adaptation" which lacked "genuine heart".^[99] Paul Katz of The Huffington Post felt that change in tone between the last two acts was too abrupt, and also criticized the film's faithfulness to the stage musical.^[102] Conversely, Alyssa Rosenberg of The Washington Post disliked the performances by Streep and Depp, while simultaneously calling the film's first two acts as a "surprising delight".^[103]

The film was named as one of the eleven best films of 2014 by the American Film Institute.^[104]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s) and nominee(s)	Result
Academy Awards[105]	February 22, 2015	Best Supporting Actress	Meryl Streep	Nominated
		Best Production Design	Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Colleen Atwood	Nominated
AACTA International Awards[106]	January 31, 2015	Best Supporting Actress	Meryl Streep	Nominated
Art Directors Guild Awards[107]	January 31, 2015	Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film	Dennis Gassner	Nominated
American Cinema Editors[108]	January 30, 2015	Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical	Wyatt Smith	Nominated
American Film Institute[109]	December 9, 2014	Top Eleven Films of the Year	Into the Woods	Won
British Academy Film Awards[110]	February 8, 2015	Best Costume Design	Colleen Atwood	Nominated
		Best Makeup and Hair	Peter Swords King, J. Roy Helland	Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association[111]	January 15, 2015	Best Supporting Actress	Meryl Streep	Nominated
		Best Acting Ensemble	The Cast of Into the Woods	Nominated
		Best Art Direction	Dennis Gassner/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Colleen Atwood	Nominated
		Best Hair & Makeup		Nominated
Casting Society of America[112]	January 22, 2015	Big Budget Comedy	Francine Maisler, Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield	Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association	December 15, 2014	Best Art direction/Production Design	Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock	Nominated
Costume Designers Guild[113]	February 17, 2015	Excellence in Fantasy Film	Colleen Atwood	Won
Detroit Film Critics Society	December 15, 2014	Best Ensemble	The Cast of Into the Woods	Nominated
Empire Awards[114]	March 29, 2015	Best Male Newcomer	Daniel Huttlestone	Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle	December 19, 2014	Best Art Direction/Production Design	Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[115]	January 11, 2015	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Into the Woods	Nominated
		Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical	Emily Blunt	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	Meryl Streep	Nominated
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards[116]	February 14, 2015	Best Period and/or Character Make-Up in Feature Length Motion Picture	Peter Swords King	Nominated
		Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling in Feature Length Motion Picture	Peter Swords King and J. Roy Helland	Nominated
		Best Special Make-Up in Feature Length Motion Picture	J. Roy Helland and Matthew Smith	Nominated
MPSE Golden Reel Awards[117]	February 15, 2015	Feature Musical	Mike Higham, Jennifer Dunnington	Nominated
MTV Movie Awards[118][119]	April 12, 2015	Best Villain	Meryl Streep	Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society[120]	December 16, 2014	Best Ensemble Acting	Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Billy Magnussen, and Frances de la Tour	Nominated
		Best Live Action Family Film	Into the Woods	Won
		Best Cinematography	Dion Beebe	Nominated
		Best Film Editing	Wyatt Smith	Nominated
		Best Costume Design		Nominated
		Best Performance By a Youth – Male	Daniel Huttlestone	Nominated
		Best Performance By a Youth – Female	Lilla Crawford	Won
San Diego Film Critics Society	December 15, 2014	Best Production Design	Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock	Nominated
Satellite Awards[121][122]	February 15, 2015	Best Ensemble – Motion Picture	Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Billy Magnussen, and Frances de la Tour	Won
		Best Costume Design	Colleen Atwood	Nominated
		Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)	Blake Leyh, John Casali, Michael Keller, Michael Prestwoood Smith, and Renee Tondelli	Nominated
		Best Visual Effects	Christian Irles, Matt Johnson, and Stefano Pepin	Nominated
Saturn Awards[123]	June 25, 2015	Best Fantasy Film	Into the Woods	Pending
		Best Supporting Actress	Meryl Streep	Pending
		Best Production Design	Dennis Gassner	Pending
		Best Costume	Colleen Atwood	Pending
		Best Make-up	Peter King and Matthew Smith	Pending
Screen Actors Guild Awards[124]	January 25, 2015	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role	Meryl Streep	Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics	December 15, 2014	Best Music Soundtrack		Nominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards[125]	December 8, 2014	Best Ensemble		Nominated
		Best Art Direction	Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock	Nominated
2015 Kids' Choice Awards[126]	March 28, 2015	Best Villain	Meryl Streep	Nominated

References

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Films directed by Rob Marshall Annie (1999) Chicago (2002) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Nine (2009) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Into the Woods (2014)

Rapunzel Literature Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812) Rapunzel (1998) Related myths and tales Danaë Rudaba Petrosinella Adaptations Film Barbie as Rapunzel (2002) Tangled (2010) Tangled Ever After (2012) Television The Mind Robber (1968) "The Tower" (2014) Video games Tangled: The Video Game See also Märchenbilder Golem in the Gears Rapunzel (Disney) Rapunzel syndrome Into the Woods (stage) Into the Woods (film)

Cinderella (1697) Characters Buttons Cinderella Ugly sisters Fairy godmother Wicked stepmother Prince Charming Films Cinderella (1899) Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912) Cinderella (1914) Ella Cinders (1926) The Cookie Carnival (1935) The Magic Shoes (1935) First Love (1939) Cinderella (1947) Sepia Cinderella (1947) Cinderella (1950) The Glass Slipper (1955) Cinderfella (1960) Stop! Look! and Laugh (1960) More Than a Miracle (1967) Tři oříšky pro Popelku (1973) The Slipper and the Rose (1976) Cinderella (1979) Maid to Order (1987) Cinderella (1994) Ever After (1998) A Cinderella Story (2004) Ella Enchanted (2004) Cinderella (2006) Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010) Cinderella (2015) Animation Cinderella Blues (1931) Poor Cinderella (1934) Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) Cinderella (1950) Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964) Cinderella (1979) The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981) The Magic Riddle (1991) Happily N'Ever After (2007) Year of the Fish (2008) Sequels Princess Cinderella (1941) Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007) Another Cinderella Story (2008) A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011) Television Hey, Cinderella! (1968) Cindy (1978) Cinderella Monogatari (1996) Cinderella (1997) CinderElmo (1999) Cinderella (2000) La Cenicienta (2003 Spanish) Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (2004 Indonesia-Malaysia-Hawaiian) Floricienta (2004) Floribella (2005 Brazil) Floribella (2006 Portugal) Grazilda (2010 Filipino-Tagalog-English) Rags (2012) Aik Nayee Cinderella (2012 Pakistani) Literary adaptations Ash (2009) Bella at Midnight (2006) Celestina (1791) Chinese Cinderella (1999 English-Chinese-Bangla) Cinder (2012) Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954) The Coachman Rat (1989) Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999) Ella Enchanted (1997) The Fairy Godmother (2004) I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999) Just Ella (1999) Nine Coaches Waiting (1958) Phoenix and Ashes (2004) Princess of Glass (2010) Witches Abroad (1991) Opera Cendrillon (1810 Isouard) La Cenerentola (1817 Rossini) Cendrillon (1899 Massenet) Cendrillon (1904 Viardot) La Cenicienta (1966 Hen) Ballet Cinderella (1893 Fitinhof-Schell) Aschenbrödel (1900 Strauss-Bayer) Cinderella (1945 Prokofiev) Cinderella (1948 Ashton) Musicals Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire (1904) Stubborn Cinderella (1909) Mr. Cinders (1929) Cinderella (1957) Cindy (1964) The Penny Friend (1966) The Slipper and the Rose (1984) Soho Cinders (2008) Cinderella (2013) Plays A Kiss for Cinderella (1916) Hobson's Choice (1916) Comics Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love Cinderalla Songs "Spread a Little Happiness" (1929) "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (1948) "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (1950) "Cinderella" (1987) "Hey Cinderella" (1993) "It's Midnight Cinderella" (1996) "Cinderella" (2001) "Cinderella" (2002) "Cinderella" (2003) "Stealing Cinderella" (2007) "Cinderella" (2007) "C\C (Cinderella\Complex)" (2008) Albums A Cinderella Story (2004 soundtrack) Disney's Princess Favorites (2002) Sociology Cinderella complex Cinderella effect The Cinderella Movement Commercials A Coach for Cinderella A Ride for Cinderella Adult Cinder Ellen up too Late Cinderella (1977) Naughty Cinderella National variation Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian) Beauty and Pock Face (Chinese) Chūjō-hime (Japanese) Fair, Brown and Trembling (Irish) Finette Cendron (French) The Green Knight (Danish) Katie Woodencloak (Norwegian) Ochikubo Monogatari (Japanese) "Rhodopis" (Greek) Rushen Coatie (Scottish) The Sharp Grey Sheep (Scottish) The Story of Tam and Cam (Vietnamese) Sumiyoshi Monogatari (Japanese) The True Bride (German) The Wonderful Birch (Russian) Ye Xian (Chinese) Games Cinderella's Castle Designer Cinders Related Catskin Into the Woods Into the Woods (2014 film) A Kiss for Cinderella (1925 film) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Disney's characters Stop! Look! and Laugh Waltz Suite Black Cinderella Two Goes East Cinderella's Sister Cinderella (sports) Lying to Be Perfect Cinderella's Eyes (2011)

Jack and the Giants Jack and the Beanstalk Film Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) Into the Woods (2014) Television "Beanstalks and Bad Eggs" (1997 episode) Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001 miniseries) Once Upon a Time: "Tallahassee" (2012) "Tiny" (2013) Cartoon Jack and the Beanstalk (1931) Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943) Beanstalk Bunny (1955) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013) Video games Jumpin' Kid: Jack to Mame no Ki Monogatari The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk Tiny Toon Adventures: The Great Beanstalk Related articles Fee-fi-fo-fum Fun and Fancy Free Into the Woods The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Jack the Giant Killer Characters Blunderbore Cormoran Thunderdell Film Jack the Giant Killer (1962) Jack the Giant Killer (2013) Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) Novel Jack, the Giant Killer Video games Jack the Giantkiller

Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture 2004 Sideways Thomas Haden Church Paul Giamatti Virginia Madsen Sandra Oh 2005 Crash Chris Bridges Sandra Bullock Don Cheadle Matt Dillon Jennifer Esposito William Fichtner Brendan Fraser Terrence Howard Thandie Newton Ryan Phillippe Larenz Tate 2006 The Departed Anthony Anderson Alec Baldwin Matt Damon Leonardo DiCaprio Vera Farmiga Jack Nicholson Martin Sheen Mark Wahlberg Ray Winstone 2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Albert Finney Rosemary Harris Ethan Hawke Philip Seymour Hoffman Brían F. O'Byrne Amy Ryan Michael Shannon Marisa Tomei 2009 Nine Marion Cotillard Penélope Cruz Daniel Day-Lewis Judi Dench Fergie Kate Hudson Nicole Kidman Sophia Loren 2011 The Help Anna Camp Jessica Chastain Viola Davis Nelsan Ellis Aunjanue Ellis Bryce Dallas Howard Dana Ivey Allison Janney Leslie Jordan Brian Kerwin Chris Lowell Ahna O'Reilly David Oyelowo Sissy Spacek Octavia Spencer Mary Steenburgen Emma Stone Cicely Tyson Mike Vogel 2012 Les Miserábles Samantha Barks Sacha Baron Cohen Helena Bonham Carter Russell Crowe Anne Hathaway Hugh Jackman Eddie Redmayne Amanda Seyfried 2013 Nebraska Bruce Dern Will Forte June Squibb Stacy Keach Bob Odenkirk Mary Louise Wilson Missy Doty Angela McEwan Rance Howard Devin Ratray Melinda Simonsen Roger Stuckwisch 2014 Into the Woods Meryl Streep Emily Blunt James Corden Anna Kendrick Chris Pine Johnny Depp Lilla Crawford Daniel Huttlestone MacKenzie Mauzy Tracey Ullman Christine Baranski Tammy Blanchard Lucy Punch Billy Magnussen Frances de la Tour