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This biopic follows Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller), who dropped out of Harvard in 1965 and partnered with a young artist named Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce). Warhol made her a star, but fame proved to be more than she could handle.

Renée Zellweger stars as Beatrix Potter, the author who shot to fame after publishing The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Set in Victorian and Edwardian England, the story follows Potter as begins life as a writer, leaves her fiancé and eventually goes into business as a farm owner.

A loner (Sarah Polley) is brought to an isolated oil rig where all the workers are men. She's come to care for a man (Tim Robbins) who has been temporarily blinded. Despite the odds, a strange intimacy develops between them.

When news of the death of Princess Diana reaches the British public, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy. For Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), the popular and newly elected prime minister, the people's need for reassurance and support from the royal family is palpable. As the unprecedented outpouring of emotion grows ever stronger, Blair must find a way to reconnect the queen with the British public.

Based on the life of Chris Gardner, a self-made millionaire, this drama stars Will Smith as a man who finds himself jobless and homeless at age 30, living in a San Francisco train station with his infant son. Determined to beat the odds, he finds work as a trainee at a brokerage and climbs the corporate ladder, eventually becoming partner and owner of his own Chicago-based firm.

This doc follows best-selling country band The Dixie Chicks through the fallout and fan backlash resulting from comments made by singer Natalie Maines about President Bush.

When betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the Austrian-born Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) enters the French court, rebels against Versailles and becomes France's most misunderstood monarch. Stripped of her riches, imprisoned and beheaded by her own subjects, the queen of France becomes a symbol of excess.

This Truman Capote biopic, which is not to be confused with Capote, stars unknown Toby Jones as the renowned writer, who became uncomfortably close to the murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock while researching his "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood.

When the coach (Greg Kinnear) of the Philadelphia Eagles hosts an unprecedented open tryout, everyone thinks it'll be a waste of time. Everyone except for Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a down-on-his-luck, 30-year-old, substitute teacher and part-time bartender who never even played college football. Against the odds, he makes the team and finds himself playing alongside his hometown heroes.

Documentarian Lian Lunson captures a Leonard Cohen tribute concert held in the Sydney Opera House in January 2005. The event was organized by famed producer Hal Willner.

This biopic tells the story of Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol), a Playboy centerfold who posed for a series of dominatrix-themed photos and challenged the social mores of the conservative 1950s. Her daring earned her an investigation by a Senate committee. At the height of her popularity, Page disappeared, not turning up again until 1979, at which point she attempted to stab several people and was diagnosed as schizophrenic.

Author Truman Capote (Hoffman) reads a newspaper story about the true-life murder of a rural Kansas family and decides he wants to write the story of the killings. Heading to the Sunflower State with his childhood friend, Harper Lee (Keener), Capote becomes fascinated by the ensuing manhunt and the killers themselves, writing the story of all he sees, which eventually became the fictionalized true-crime story In Cold Blood.

This biopic of Johnny Cash stars Joaquin Phoenix as the legendary country icon and focuses on the singer's early career in Memphis, Tenn., including his struggles with drug addiction. Reese Witherspoon stars as his wife and band-mate, June Carter Cash.

Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), a former model and the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, leaves her life of luxury in Beverly Hills to become a bounty hunter. Along with her partner, Ed Martinez, she spends the next three years firing off countless rounds of ammo in south Los Angeles.

Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock (Crowe) is just a regular Joe who starts taking fights to feed his wife (Zellweger) and family, but as he piles up unlikely victories, he becomes a national hero whose spectacular comeback inspires the nation.