Angels in America (miniseries)

Angels in America
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Based on	Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Written by	Tony Kushner
Directed by	Mike Nichols
Starring	Al Pacino Meryl Streep Patrick Wilson Mary-Louise Parker Emma Thompson Justin Kirk Jeffrey Wright Ben Shenkman
Theme music composer	Thomas Newman
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Celia D. Costas
Cinematography	Stephen Goldblatt
Editors	John Bloom Antonia Van Drimmelen
Running time	352 minutes
Production companies	Avenue Pictures HBO Films
Budget	$60 million
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	December 7 (2003-12-07) – December 14, 2003 (2003-12-14)
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Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Set in 1985, the film revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The film explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.^[1][2]

HBO broadcast the film in various formats: two three-hour chunks that correspond to Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, further divided into six one-hour "chapters" that roughly correspond to an act or two of each of these plays; the first three chapters ("Bad News", "In Vitro", and "The Messenger") were initially broadcast on December 7, 2003, to international acclaim, with the final three chapters ("Stop Moving!", "Beyond Nelly", and "Heaven, I'm in Heaven") following.

Angels in America was the most-watched made-for-cable film in 2003, and earned much critical acclaim and numerous accolades: at the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards, it became the first of only three programs in Emmy history (along with Schitt's Creek in 2020, and The Crown in 2021) to sweep every major eligible category, and won all four acting categories. It also won in all five eligible categories at the 61st Golden Globe Awards. In 2006, The Seattle Times listed the series among "Best of the filmed AIDS portrayals" on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of AIDS.^[3]