The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

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R for brutal violent content including rape and torture, strong sexuality, graphic nudity and language.

David Fincher

Ceán Chaffin, Scott Rudin, Søren Stærmose & Ole Søndberg (Producers)

Berna Levin & Eli Bush (Co-Producers)

Jim Davidson (Associate Producer)

Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Ryan Kavanaugh, Mikael Wallen & Steven Zaillian (Executive Producers)

Malte Forssell (Line Producer: Sweden)

Steven Zaillian (screenplay)

Stieg Larsson (novel "Män som hatar kvinnor")

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Jeff Cronenweth

Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall

Columbia Pictures | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Scott Rudin Productions | Yellow Bird Films

United States | Sweden | United Kingdom | Germany

English

Drottninggatan, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Ingarö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Kaffebar, Kvarngatan, Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Krukmakargatan, Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Los Angeles, California, USA

Norway

Oslo, Norway

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (studio)

Rådhuset, Scheelegatan, Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Sankt Paulsgatan, Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Segersta, Hälsingland, Sweden (exteriors)

Sollefteå, Västernorrlands län, Sweden (Hedestad train station)

Sony Pictures Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA (studio)

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland

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AFI Awards, USA

2011 Won AFI Film Award AFI Movie of the Year Ceán Chaffin & Scott Rudin

Academy Awards

2012 Won Oscar Best Achievement in Film Editing Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter

2012 Nominated Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography Jeff Cronenweth

2012 Nominated Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Editing Ren Klyce

2012 Nominated Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Mixing David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Bo Persson

2012 Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Rooney Mara

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

2012 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actress Rooney Mara

2012 Nominated Saturn Award Best Horror/Thriller Film

American Cinema Editors, USA

2012 Nominated Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall

American Society of Cinematographers Awards, USA

2012 Nominated ASC Award Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Jeff Cronenweth

BAFTA Awards

2012 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Cinematography Jeff Cronenweth

2012 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Original Music Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor

BMI Film & TV Awards

2012 Won BMI Film Music Award Film Music Atticus Ross

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

2012 Won Critics Choice Award Best Editing Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter

2012 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Score Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Central Ohio Film Critics Association

2012 Won COFCA Award Best Screenplay, Adapted Steven Zaillian

2012 2nd place COFCA Award Best Score Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

2012 Nominated COFCA Award Best Director David Fincher

2012 Nominated COFCA Award Best Picture

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

2011 Nominated CFCA Award Best Original Score Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Costume Designers Guild Awards

2012 Won CDG Award Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Contemporary Trish Summerville

Directors Guild of America, USA

2012 Nominated DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures David Fincher

Empire Awards, UK

2012 Nominated Empire Award Best Actor Daniel Craig

2012 Nominated Empire Award Best Actress Rooney Mara

2012 Nominated Empire Award Best Film

2012 Nominated Empire Award Best Thriller

Golden Globe Awards

2012 Nominated Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

2012 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Rooney Mara

MTV Movie Awards

2012 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Female Performance Rooney Mara

2012 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best On-Screen Transformation Rooney Mara

2012 Nominated MTV Movie Award Breakthrough Performance Rooney Mara

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

2012 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Music in a Feature Film Jonathon Stevens (music editor)

2012 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Music in a Feature Film Marie Ebbing (music editor)

2012 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Music in a Feature Film Jonathon Stevens (music editor)

2012 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Music in a Feature Film Marie Ebbing (music editor)

National Board of Review Awards, USA

2011 Won NBR Award Best Breakthrough Performer Rooney Mara. Tied with Felicity Jones for Like Crazy (2011)

2011 Won NBR Award Top Films

PGA Awards

2012 Nominated Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Theatrical Motion Pictures Ceán Chaffin & Scott Rudin

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

2012 Won Virtuoso Award Rooney Mara

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

2011 Nominated WAFCA Award Best Score Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor

Writers Guild of America, USA

2012 Nominated WGA Award (Screen) Best Adapted Screenplay Steven Zaillian (screenplay). Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson, originally published by Norstedts

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker.

Jeff Cronenweth replaced original cinematographer Fredrik Bäckar after eight weeks.

Two of the movie's taglines: "Evil shall with evil be expelled" and "What is hidden in snow, comes forth in the thaw" are Swedish proverbs. Stellan Skarsgård, himself a swede, told them to David Fincher during filming. Fincher liked them and thought they fitted the story and setting well, so he made them taglines for the movie.

The movie was shot in Sweden during one of the coldest winters in over 20 years.

The piercings (including multiple ear, eyebrow, and nipple piercings) that Rooney Mara sports as Lisbeth Salander are real, not cosmetic simulations. Mara got the piercings in a series of sessions in Brooklyn and Sweden.

The film was released on December 20; exactly where the novel begins in chapter one.

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Mikael Blomkvist: We're looking for a serial murderer, but what could that have to do with a teenager living on an island?
Lisbeth Salander: She was looking for him too.

Mikael Blomkvist: I want you to help me catch a killer of women.

Harriet: If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it you shall kill the woman and the beast. Their blood will be upon them.

Bjurman: How many partners have you had in the last month? And how many of those were men? It's regulation. I have to ask these things.
Lisbeth Salander: Write what you want.

Mikael Blomkvist: I can't find any record of her and I'm pretty good at that kind of thing.
Armansky: She's had a rough life. Can we please not make it any rougher?

Lisbeth Salander: Put your hand back in my shirt.

Henrik Vanger: You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet - my family.

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Rooney Mara glistens like an icicle in the new American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s pulp thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Reviewed by: Robbie Collin of The Telegraph.

Crisp, stylish and well-acted English-language adaptation. Rooney Mara rocks this role. Reviewed by: Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times.

The great screenwriter Steven Zaillian's elaborate, convoluted script, so muddled that even after it's over you still don't know what it's all about, is a drawback -- but the movie is a master class in sinister style, tense and deeply uncomfortable. Reviewed by: Rex Reed of The New York City Observer.

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