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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix ( born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is a film actor, musician, and occasional rapper. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he lived for the first 4 years of his childhood. His family then moved to the continental United States, where he was raised. Among the many places in which he lived, because of his family's frequent moving, were Mexico and various countries in South America. Phoenix is from a family of performers which includes his older brother, the late River Phoenix.

Phoenix has ventured behind the camera, directing music videos as well as producing movies and television shows, and has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line. He is also known for his work as a social activist, particularly as an advocate for animal rights. On October 27, 2008, he announced his retirement from film in order to focus on his rapping career.

Joaquin has made a triumphant return to acting in Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The MaSter'.



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Joaquin Phoenix - news / articles


  • Joaquin Phoenix regrets Oscars comments - 9 November 2012
    -Joaquin Phoenix regrets his recent dismissal of the Academy Awards as "the stupidest thing in the whole world", insisting his comments don't reflect his real views on the Hollywood prizegiving.-The actor has twice been nominated for an Oscar, for his films Gladiator and



  • Joaquin Phoenix wracked with anxiety working with Seymour Hoffman - 24 October 2012
    -Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix feared he would be fired every day he worked on new drama The Master because he was wracked with nerves whenever he had a scene with his "genius" co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman.-The Walk the Line actor plays Freddie Quell, a troubled, alcoh

Joaquin Phoenix - what members say


  • 8MM
  • 8MM review by from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Tense thriller 18 February 2004
    .... What makes this a better than average film is the acting of Nicholas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix. Cage excels at playing these multi-faceted characters with a light and dark si...   Read customer review
  • Quills
  • Quills review by from Midlands, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Not your average costume drama! 30 December 2004
    ...f evil doctor Michael Caine. The supporting cast inclusing Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix are as gorgeous as the revolution-era sets, and their doomed love affair very c...   Read customer review
  • Signs
  • Signs review by from TELFORD
    Rated - 5.0 stars 2 March 2004
    ... family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), awake early one morning to find the dogs barking and the children-Bo, and her...   Read customer review

Joaquin Phoenix - filmography


  • The Master on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Rami Malek,  Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this Academy Award-nominated drama about a US Navy veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who seeks salvation in the company of a charismatic cult leader. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell, a troubled drifter who arrives home to post-WWII ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2,982 members
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  • I'm Still Here on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Casey Affleck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    I'M STILL HERE is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I'M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,205 members
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  • I'm Still Here - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Casey Affleck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Faux documentary following a year in the life of award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix. Beginning in autumn 2008, the film focuses on Phoenix's decision to move away from the acting world into music, more specifically hip hop, and follows the star's transition into this new industry, which includes ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,105 member
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  • Two Lovers - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: John Ortiz,  Isabella Rossellini,  Nick Gillie
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow star in this New York-set romantic drama. Aspiring photographer and lonely introvert Leonard (Phoenix) has moved back into his parents' home following a recent heartbreak. His concerned parents try to set him up with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the sweet and caring ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,301 member
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  • Two Lovers on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Vinessa Shaw
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor (Phoenix) torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 10,824 members
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  • Reservation Road on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Mira Sorvino,  Mark Ruffalo,  Sean Curley
    Director: Terry George
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A tale of anger, revenge, and great courage, the film follows two fathers as their families and lives converge. On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello--beautifully, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,642 members
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  • We Own The Night - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Alex Veadov,  Mark Wahlberg,  Eva Mendes
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg. Bobby Green (Phoenix) has forsaken his name to escape his family and their tradition in law enforcement to pursue his ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealing all around him, he comes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 134 members
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  • Walk The Line - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Dan Beene,  Shelby Lynn,  San
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drama following the life of the legendary 'Man in Black', Johnny Cash. The movie begins in 1955, when a tough, skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) walks into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,331 member
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  • Walk The Line on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Dan Beene,  Shelby Lynn,  Sandra Ellis-Lafferty
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drama following the life of the legendary 'Man in Black', Johnny Cash. The movie begins in 1955, when a tough, skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) walks into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 82,819 members
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  • I'm Still Here on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Kate Hudson,  Oliver Hudson
    Director: Lauren Lazin
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Documentary based around a montage of archival film, personal photos and text, drawings and readings from the real-life diaries of young people who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand. Joaquin Phoenix, Elijah Wood and Kate Hudson are among the actors who read from the journals.
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  • Ladder 49 on DVD (2004)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Balthazar Getty,  Jacinda Barrett
    Director: Jay Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Action drama about how extraordinary heroes emerge out of ordinary lives. While trying to rescue a trapped civilian, firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) finds himself trapped and surrounded by flames. Outside Fire Chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), battles to get his friend out alive. As ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 31,223 members
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  • Hotel Rwanda on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sophie Okonedo,  Desmond Dube,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Terry George
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Harrowing drama set during the Rwandan conflict of the 1990s. The Rwandan conflict of the 1990s marked one of the bloodiest chapters in recent African history. Over the course of 100 days, almost one million people were killed. The streets of the capital city of Kigali ran red with rivers of blood, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 88,524 members
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  • The Village on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Adrien Brody
    Director: M. Night Shyamalan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Atmospheric psychological thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Covington is a small rural Pennsylvanian village locked into an unusual pact: beyond the village boundaries lurk terrifying creatures, but these creatures have agreed to stay outwith the villagers' territory so long as the villagers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 62,340 members
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  • Ladder 49 - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Balthazar Getty,  Jacinda Barrett
    Director: Jay Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Action drama about how extraordinary heroes emerge out of ordinary lives. While trying to rescue a trapped civilian, firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) finds himself trapped and surrounded by flames. Outside Fire Chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), battles to get his friend out alive. As ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 898 members
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  • Brother Bear (2003)
    Starring: Dave Thomas,  D.B. Sweeney,  Jason Raize
    Director: Rob Walker,  Aaron Blaise
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Driven by the emotional and joyous rhythms of five great new songs from Academy-Award® winner Phil Collins, "Brother Bear" is Disney's exciting new animated holiday adventure. Set against the majestic natural splendor of the Great American Northwest, the film tells the story of a boy named Kenai, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,784 members
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  • It's All About Love on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Douglas Henshall,  Margo Martindale
    Director: Thomas Vinterberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Unusual sci-fi romance from Danish director Thomas Vintenberg, set in a near-future world teetering on the brink of environmental collapse: children are dying on the streets in New York from an unexplained illness; the weather has become unpredictable to the point where snowstorms are a regular ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 3,960 members
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  • Signs on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Mel Gibson,  Cherry Jones
    Director: M. Night Shyamalan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Reverend Graham Hess discovers a five hundred foot crop circle on his farmland which creates a media frenzy. Hess and his family tries to determine what the crop circle means...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 26,187 members
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  • Buffalo Soldiers on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anna Paquin,  Leon,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gregor Jordan's film takes place in Germany during the last days of the Cold War. Stuck on duty as Batallion Clerk at a US Army base in West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) maintains a lucrative sideline in blackmarket trade under the nose of his superiors - ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 15,944 members
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  • Gladiator - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Russell Crowe,  Connie Nielsen
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) and Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960), Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning take on the Roman epic lavishes the genre with the very latest in computer-generated effects technology. After the death of Emperor Marcus ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 3,694 members
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  • Quills (2000)
    Starring: Stephen Moyer,  Kate Winslet,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Imprisoned in the Charenton asylum near Paris, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) continues to produce his notorious erotic writings. When he finishes his latest novel, 'Justine', the young chambermaid Madeleine (Kate Winslet) smuggles it out to be published. The authorities are shocked by the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,115 members
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  • The Yards on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Steve Lawrence,  James Caan,  Faye Dunaway
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) is fresh out of prison and keen to put his life in order. Returning to the bosom of his family, he manages to get a job with his influential uncle Frank (James Caan), and is also reunited with his best friend Willy (Joaquin Phoenix) and Willy's girlfriend Erica (Charlize ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,249 members
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  • Gladiator on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Russell Crowe,  Connie Nielsen
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) and Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960), Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning take on the Roman epic lavishes the genre with the very latest in computer-generated effects technology. After the death of Emperor Marcus ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 78,032 members
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  • 8MM on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Catherine Keener,  Peter Stormare,  Nicolas Cage
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Oscar winner Nicolas Cage stars as Tom Welles, a surveillance expert with an inauspicious home-based business. Whilst he spends the majority of his time on mundane and respectable work, he is still awaiting the case that will secure his professional reputation. His latest case involves a reel of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 7,925 members
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  • Return To Paradise on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Jada Pinkett-Smith,  David Conrad
    Director: Joseph Ruben
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    College graduates Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Tony (David Conrad) and Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix) are on holiday in Malaysia enjoying a hedonistic lifestyle. Sheriff and Tony return to America leaving their supplies of hashish with Lewis, who wants to stay longer in Penang. Two years later Tony and Sheriff ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,747 member
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  • Clay Pigeons on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Gregory Sporleder,  Scott Wilson
    Director: David Dobkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joaquin Phoenix stars as Clay who watches his best friend kill himself after he finds out that Clay was sleeping with his wife. When Clay tries to end his affair with the wife after this, she proves to be very difficult to get rid of - until Clay befriends demented killer Lester Long (Vince Vaughn),..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,346 member
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  • U Turn on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Abraham Benrubi,  Sean Penn,  Laurie Metcalf
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Gambler Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) is en route to Las Vegas to pay off a debt when his car breaks down in the town of Superior, Arizona. Forced to hang around for several hours while the vehicle is fixed, Bobby meets first the seductive Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez), then her brutal, older husband, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,028 members
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  • Inventing The Abbotts on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Will Patton,  Liv Tyler
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Fifties Illinois, the working class Holt brothers, Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) and Jacey (Billy Crudup), lust after the socially superior Abbott daughters. Jacey resents the rumours that his widowed mother, Helen (Kathy Baker), had an affair with Lloyd Abbott (Will Patton). Jacey begins an affair ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,319 member
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  • To Die For (1995)
    Starring: Wayne Knight,  Kurtwood Smith,  Alison Folland
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A small town girl (Nicole Kidman) has an ambition to become a national TV personality, but her dream becomes an obsession after she talks her way into working as a weather girl at the local TV station. She wants to make a documentary about the local kids, but her meeting with a rebellious teenager ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,743 members
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  • To Die For (1994)
    Starring: Tony Slattery,  Casey Affleck,  Caroline Munro
    Director: Peter Litten,  Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A small town girl (Nicole Kidman) has an ambition to become a national TV personality, but her dream becomes an obsession after she talks her way into working as a weather girl at the local TV station. She wants to make a documentary about the local kids, but her meeting with a rebellious teenager ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 56 members
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  • Space Camp on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Tate Donovan,  Lea Thompson,  Kelly Preston
    Director: Harry Winer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Five teenagers go to NASA Summer Camp to learn what it's like to be an astronaut. By accident, they and their instructor (Kate Capshaw) are launched into space and they must work out how to get back to Earth.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,483 members
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  • Murder She Wrote - Series 1 (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Angela Lansbury,  Martin Landau,  Leslie Nieslen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All 21 episodes from the first series of the American television detective series, starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, who always finds herself with real-life murders to solve when touring to promote her books. In this series, Jessica tries to clear her niece's fiancĂ©'s ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 733 members
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Joaquin Phoenix facts

5 most recent films

The Master - 3.0 stars
The Master - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
I'm Still Here - 2.5 stars
I'm Still Here - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Two Lovers - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Gladiator - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Gladiator - 4.0 stars
Hotel Rwanda - 4.0 stars
Walk The Line - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Walk The Line - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

I'm Still Here - 3 stars
Brother Bear - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
It's All About Love - 2.0 stars
Two Lovers - 2.5 stars
I'm Still Here - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tomas Arana - 7 times - show films
Oliver Reed - 7 times - show films
Richard Harris - 7 times - show films
Connie Nielsen - 7 times - show films
David Schofield - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Gray - 9 times - show films
none - 7 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 7 times - show films
M. Night Shyamalan - 6 times - show films
Casey Affleck - 5 times - show films