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Both Phoenix and Witherspoon did all of their own singing and instrument-playing for the film. Among its awards, the film won one UsefulNotes/AcademyAward ([[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole Best Actress]] for Witherspoon) and was nominated for three more ([[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActorInALeadingRole Best Actor]] for Phoenix, Best Sound, [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestCostumeDesign Best Costume Design]], [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestFilmEditing Best Film Editing]]).

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Both Phoenix and Witherspoon did all of their own singing and instrument-playing for the film. Among its awards, the film won one UsefulNotes/AcademyAward ([[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole MediaNotes/AcademyAward ([[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole Best Actress]] for Witherspoon) and was nominated for three more ([[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActorInALeadingRole ([[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActorInALeadingRole Best Actor]] for Phoenix, Best Sound, [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestCostumeDesign [[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestCostumeDesign Best Costume Design]], [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestFilmEditing [[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestFilmEditing Best Film Editing]]).
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One noted critic of the film was Rosanne Cash, Johnny's daughter from his first marriage, who said it was "painful"; Rosanne had a very good relationship with her stepmother June, and even spoke at her funeral. Mangold justified the somewhat unflattering portrayal of Roseanne's mother Vivian by saying that as a character, she was being seen from Johnny's perspective as he fell in love with June.

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One noted critic of the film was Rosanne Cash, Johnny's daughter from his first marriage, who said it was "painful"; Rosanne had a very good relationship with her stepmother June, and even spoke at her funeral. Mangold justified the somewhat unflattering portrayal of Roseanne's Rosanne's mother Vivian by saying that as a character, she was being seen from Johnny's perspective as he fell in love with June.



* RaceLift: Vivian Cash had slight African-American ancestry (one of her maternal great-great-grandmothers was a mixed-race slave later freed by her father); this, along with her Italian grandparents, led to a campaign of racist attacks on her claiming she was a black woman married to a white man (a major no-no in the South of the 50s and 60s). In the film she's played by totally Caucasian actress Creator/GinniferGoodwin.

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* RaceLift: Vivian Cash had slight African-American ancestry (one of her maternal great-great-grandmothers was a mixed-race slave later freed by her father); this, along with her Italian grandparents, grandparents and her tanned complexion, led to a campaign of racist attacks on her claiming she was a black woman married to a white man (a major no-no in the South of the 50s and 60s). In the film she's played by the totally Caucasian and very pale actress Creator/GinniferGoodwin.
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* BrickJoke: "I got the laryngitis!"
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* ShoutOut: The line, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency" comes from the 1955 WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn short All Fowled Up.

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* ShoutOut: The line, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency" comes from the 1955 WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn short All "All Fowled Up.Up".
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** Viv delivers a couple to Johnny as well, only they don't take.
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Based somewhat on Cash's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he loses his brother to a sawmill accident, and then joins the Air Force. Later on, he returns to the U.S. and tries to work as a salesman, but ends up signing to Sun Records because his heart is in the music business. Along the way, he marries and then divorces his first wife, Vivian, then meets and befriends June Carter (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon). After some drug-induced tumult, he eventually cleans up and performs his now-legendary concert at Folsom Prison. Johnny and June then perform a concert in Canada, where he interrupts a song to propose to her. She accepts. (No, this wasn't a Hollywood romance ending. That really did happen.)

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Based somewhat on Cash's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he loses his brother to a sawmill accident, and then joins the Air Force. Later on, he returns to the U.S. and tries to work as a salesman, but ends up signing to Sun Records because his heart is in the music business. Along the way, he marries and then divorces his first wife, Vivian, Vivian (Creator/GinniferGoodwin), then meets and befriends June Carter (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon). After some drug-induced tumult, he eventually cleans up and performs his now-legendary concert at Folsom Prison. Johnny and June then perform a concert in Canada, where he interrupts a song to propose to her. She accepts. (No, this wasn't a Hollywood romance ending. That really did happen.)

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