The film won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer (Hailee Steinfeld) and received ten additional nominations in the following categories: Best Film, Best Actor (Jeff Bridges), Best Supporting Actress (Steinfeld), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, and Best Score. The ceremony took place on January 14, 2011. [35] John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn were both born in May 1907 (Hepburn the elder by two weeks), and their careers paralleled each other, yet this marked the only time the Hollywood veterans appeared together in a film. During filming, both 67-year-old stars stayed in Sunriver, [5] and Governor TomMcCall flew in for a brief visit with them in early October. [5] It was a challenge for the Coens to find an actor for the role that gave John Wayne his Academy Award, being that it remains one of Wayne's best-remembered performances. It was nominated for eight British Academy Film Awards: Best Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bridges), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Steinfeld), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design. Roger Deakins won the award for Best Cinematography.

Champlin, Charles (October 17, 1975). "Kate and Duke in 'Cogburn'". Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 1. Which movie is better, the original or the remake?" It's a question that always sparks fierce debate in cinema communities, and it's only beaten in intensity by the book-or-movie-better question.Without a doubt, the remake of True Grit bests the original True Grit is multiple areas. While John Wayne's portrayal of Rooster Cogburn is still so very memorable, the Coen Brothers' film remains the better of the two in almost every manner. At the same time, though, Mattie is capable of recognizing the negative aspects of her society’s obsession with aggressive, hypermasculine displays of power. For instance, when Rooster and LaBoeuf start arguing about who’s better at shooting, they do nothing but distract themselves from the more important task. “This is the famous horse killer from El Paso, Texas,” Rooster tells his friend Captain Finch, making fun of LaBoeuf for accidentally shooting Ned Pepper’s horse instead of Ned himself. This comment sets off a dispute in which each man tries to prove his marksmanship skills by throwing corn paddies and shooting at them in the air. “They drank whiskey and used up about sixty corn dodgers like that,” Mattie writes. It’s worth noting here that the group is supposed to be chasing after Ned Pepper and his gang, but they’ve distracted themselves by wasting food and trying to prove their superiority. “It was entertaining for a while but there was nothing educational about it. I grew more and more impatient with them,” Mattie explains, and she finally tells them to stop. In this moment, readers see that, despite Rooster and LaBoeuf’s respected reputations, their need to feel dominant only makes them behave stupidly, whereas Mattie is able to recognize their foolishness. Mattie exists in a society that stands in awe of men who prove themselves through acts of violence. The people surrounding Mattie seemingly care more about whether or not a man has “grit” than whether or not he’s a good person. In alignment with this, Rooster Cogburn enjoys a hallowed reputation as a feared and respected U.S. marshal simply because everyone knows he’s ruthless. The mere fact that he works for the nation’s federal government is a testament to how his history as a fearless man plays to his favor. After all, he used to be part of a gang of outlaws that terrorized the West in the final years of the Civil War, a group that LaBoeuf describes as “not soldiers at all but murdering thieves.” And yet, in spite of his troubling personal history, Rooster remains a revered marshal. Mattie herself serves as a good representation of her society’s willingness to excuse violent transgressions, as she focuses exclusively on the benefits of Rooster’s mercilessness. When Stonehill asks her why she has chosen to hire Rooster, she says, “They say he has grit. I wanted a man with grit.” In response, Stonehill implies that the very same “grit” that attracts Mattie is what makes Rooster a dangerous, morally suspect man, but when he warns her against getting involved with such a character, she merely says, “The good Christian does not flinch from difficulties.” By saying this, she embodies her society’s belief that it’s honorable to brazenly confront adversity. Rooster Cogburn". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020 . Retrieved July 9, 2022.

It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, [37] [38] but won none: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Bridges), Best Supporting Actress (Steinfeld), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing. [39] When told of all the nominations, the Coen brothers stated, "Ten seems like an awful lot. We don't want to take anyone else's." [40] Home media [ edit ] Mattie Ross: It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it if the law fails to do so. Steinberg, Jay. "Rooster Cogburn (1975)". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014 . Retrieved March 21, 2014.

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After pursuing and catching up with the lawmen, Mattie is spanked for her perceived insolence by LaBoeuf until Cogburn draws his weapon on LaBoeuf. This, combined with a further disagreement regarding their differing opinions of William Quantrill, prompts Cogburn to end his arrangement with LaBoeuf; the latter leaves to pursues Chaney on his own. At a rural dugout, Cogburn and Mattie find two outlaws, Quincy and Moon, who surrender after Cogburn shoots and injures Moon. Initially, the outlaws deny any knowledge of Ned Pepper or Chaney, but Cogburn, using Moon's worsening injury as leverage, convinces Moon to cooperate. Quincy, enraged, stabs Moon and is himself shot and killed by Cogburn. A dying Moon informs Cogburn that Pepper and his gang will arrive at the dugout later that night for supplies.

It's partly a question of point-of-view. The book is entirely in the voice of the 14-year-old girl. That sort of tips the feeling of it over a certain way. I think [the book is] much funnier than the movie was so I think, unfortunately, they lost a lot of humor in both the situations and in her voice. It also ends differently than the movie did. You see the main character – the little girl – 25 years later when she's an adult. Another way in which it's a little bit different from the movie – and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made – is that it's a lot tougher and more violent than the movie reflects. Which is part of what's interesting about it. [8]

The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross, churchgoing elderly spinster distinguished by intelligence, independence, and strength of mind. She recounts the story of her adventures fifty years earlier, in 1878, when she undertook a quest to avenge her father's murder by a drifter named Tom Chaney. She is joined on her quest by Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (pronounced "La-beef"). The Western has had one of the most difficult transitions into modern media. This is largely due to the depiction of Native Americans, typically used in the past as an interchangeable boogeyman, while the white, male protagonist was virtuous in nearly every way. Older movies and television shows also gloried in bloodless gunplay. True Grit Film– casting Call". Truegritcasting.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2010 . Retrieved February 16, 2010. Turner, Ralph Lamar (2015). " "Why do You Think I am Paying You if Not to Have My Way?" Genre Complications in the Free-Market Critiques of Fictional and Filmed Versions of True Grit". The Journal of Popular Culture. 48 (2): 355–370. doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12262. a b Barnes, Brooks (December 26, 2010). "Strong Start for Coen Brothers' 'True Grit' ". New York Times . Retrieved December 27, 2010.In his family memoir, Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man Who Inspired True Grit, shoot ‘em up Westerns writer, Brett Cogburn makes plausible arguments that his great-grandfather, John Franklin Cogburn (aka: ‘Rooster’) was the real life inspiration for Charles Portis’s fictional character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in his novel, True Grit. Whether or not you accept his basic premise, Cogburn’s memoir makes for very interesting, informative and entertaining reading about the old west. Mattie Ross: I want Tom Chaney to hang for killing my father. It's little to me how many dogs and senators he killed in Texas. Bad blood already existed between the Cogburns and Deputy Trammel long before that fatal morning in 1888. Trammel had been working undercover to identify moonshiners and apparently used strongarm tactics on the Cogburn womenfolk while the men were away. On the day before the gunfight, Deputy Marshals Trammel and Reuben M. Fry, along with a 15-man posse, had arrested Joseph Peppers and Franklin’s brother Bill. Franklin led Fayette and three other hard-riding mountain boys to confront Trammel and two posse members. A shot from a Cogburn Winchester ended Trammel’s life.