Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere arrives in theaters Friday, making it the latest musical biopic to get Oscar buzz.
The Academy Awards have been handing out trophies to actors portraying real-life musicians for decades, going all the way back to James Cagney's turn as George M. Cohan in 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Jeremy Allen White plays New Jersey's favorite son, rocker Bruce Springsteen, in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, and is drawing awards attention. The biopic screened at the Telluride Film Festival in August, drawing praise for White, if not necessarily universally for the film.
The movie is directed by Scott Cooper, who also helmed 2009's Crazy Heart. That film follows a fictional country music legend played by Jeff Bridges, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 2009 for the role.
Dozens of actors have received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for their musical biopic roles in recent years, including Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan in 2024, Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in 2022 and Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin in 2021.
