The Post (film)

Not to be confused with Post (film).

The Post
Meryl Streep's Katharine Graham shows Tom Hanks's Ben Bradlee, both concerned, the front of a newspaper.
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJanusz Kamiński
Edited by
Music byJohn Williams
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox[3]
Release dates
  • December 14, 2017 (2017-12-14) (Newseum)
  • December 22, 2017 (2017-12-22) (United States)
Running time
116 minutes[4]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million[5]
Box office$179.8 million[6]

The Post is a 2017 American political thriller film[7][8] about The Washington Post and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. It was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, with Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles.

Set in 1971, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at The Washington Post to publish the infamous Pentagon Papers, a set of classified documents regarding the 20-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War and earlier in French Indochina back to the 1940s.

Principal photography began in New York City in May 2017 and wrapped in July 2017. The film premiered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on December 14, 2017, and went into limited release in the United States by 20th Century Fox on December 22, 2017. It entered wide release on January 12, 2018, and grossed $179 million worldwide.

The film received positive reviews; critics praised Spielberg's direction, the performances (particularly Streep, Hanks, and Odenkirk) and the film's references and allusions to the presidencies of Richard Nixon and then-incumbent Donald Trump.[9][10][11] The Post was chosen by the National Board of Review as the best film of 2017 and was named as one of the top 10 films of the year by Time magazine and the American Film Institute.[12][13][14] The Post was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress (for Streep) at the 90th Academy Awards, and received six nominations at the 75th Golden Globe Awards: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Actress – Drama (for Streep), Best Actor – Drama (for Hanks), Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score.[15]

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