Cold Mountain
IMDB Page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159365/ (external link)
Writer:	Anthony Minghella & Charles Frazier
Starring:	Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins
Director:	Anthony Minghella
Music by:	Gabriel Yared
Distributor:	Miramax Films
Release Date:	December 25 2003 (USA)
Runtime:	152 min.
Language:	English
Awards:	2003 Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress; 2003 BAFTA Awards, Best Supporting Actress

Cold Mountain is a novel by Charles Frazier which was adapted by Anthony Minghella into a film in 2003. It was directed by Minghella. The movie stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Natalie Portman. Although set in the Southern United States, it was mostly filmed in Romania.

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography (John Seale), Best Achievement in Editing (Walter Murch), Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score (Gabriel Yared), Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (for T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the song "Scarlet Tide"), Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (for Sting for the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love"), Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Jude Law) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Renée Zellweger). Zellweger won the Academy Award.

Law plays a Confederate soldier, fed up with war, who starts off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and the woman he loves, Ada (Kidman). But Ada is a city woman who only recently moved to the rural farm where her minister father has recently died, and struggles to keep the farm going with the help of Ruby (Zellweger).

Cold Mountain is a mountain in North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountains. It is located in the Pisgah National Forest and is very suitable for hiking, on the Art Loeb Trail.

External links

• Official site http://www.coldmountainmovie.com/
• Cold Mountain http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159365/ at the Internet Movie Database
• Hiking on Cold Mountain http://www.romanticasheville.com/cold_mountain_hiking.htm