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{{Infobox film
| name = Kinsey
| image = Kinsey_movie.jpg
| border = yes
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Bill Condon]]
| producer = [[Gail Mutrux]]
| writer = Bill Condon
| starring = {{Plainlist |
* [[Liam Neeson]]
* [[Laura Linney]]
* [[Chris O'Donnell]]
* [[Peter Sarsgaard]]
* [[Timothy Hutton]]
* [[John Lithgow]]
* [[Tim Curry]]
* [[Oliver Platt]]
* [[Dylan Baker]]
}}
| music = [[Carter Burwell]]
| cinematography = [[Frederick Elmes]]
| editing = Virginia Katz
| studio = [[American Zoetrope]]<br />[[Myriad Pictures]]
| distributor = [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|2004|11|12}}
| runtime = 118 minutes<ref>{{cite web|title=''KINSEY'' (15)|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/kinsey-2005-3|work=[[20th Century Fox]]|publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=August 31, 2004|access-date=September 26, 2013}}</ref>
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $11 million<ref name="mojo"/>
| gross = $16.9 million<ref name="mojo"/>
}}
'''''Kinsey''''' is a 2004 American [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] written and directed by [[Bill Condon]].<ref>{{cite video |people = Bill Condon (Director) |date = November 12, 2004 |title = Kinsey |publisher = [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]] }}</ref> It describes the life of [[Alfred Kinsey|Alfred Charles Kinsey]] (played by [[Liam Neeson]]), a pioneer in the area of [[sexology]]. His 1948 publication, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (the first of the [[Kinsey Reports]]) was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate [[Human sexual activity|sexual behavior]] in humans. The film also stars [[Laura Linney]] (in a performance nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]), [[Chris O'Donnell]], [[Peter Sarsgaard]], [[Timothy Hutton]], [[John Lithgow]], [[Tim Curry]], and [[Oliver Platt]].

==Plot==
Professor [[Alfred Kinsey]] is interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The early years show his father, a [[Methodist local preacher|lay minister of the Methodist church]], denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then in early adolescence, humiliating Kinsey in a store by denouncing its keeper for showing him cigarettes, while his adolescence shows his experiences as a [[Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)|Boy Scout]] and a late teenage scene shows Kinsey disappointing his father by his chosen vocational intentions. The adult Kinsey teaches at [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] as a professor of biology lecturing on [[gall wasp]]s.

Kinsey falls in love with a student in his class, whom he calls [[Clara McMillen|Mac]], and marries her. Consummation of their marriage is difficult at first, because of a medical problem Mac has that is fixed easily with minor surgery. At the university, Professor Kinsey, who is affectionately called "Prok" by his graduate students, meets with them after hours to offer individual sexual advice.

At a book party celebrating Kinsey's latest publication on [[gall wasp]]s, Kinsey approaches the [[dean of students]] about an open-forum [[sex education]] course as opposed to the anti-sex propaganda taught in a general [[health education]] class. It is approved, but on the grounds that it is open only to teachers, graduate or senior students, and married students. Kinsey begins teaching the sex course to a packed auditorium.

Kinsey continues answering students' questions in personal meetings but his answers are severely limited by the paucity of scientific data about human sexual behavior. This leads Kinsey to pass out questionnaires in his sexual education class from which he learns of the enormous disparity between what society had assumed people do and what their actual practices are. After securing financial support from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], Kinsey and his research assistants, including his closest assistant, [[Clyde Martin]], travel the country, interviewing subjects about their sexual histories.

As time progresses Kinsey realizes that sexuality within humans, including himself, is a lot more varied than was originally thought. The range of expression he creates becomes known as the [[Kinsey scale]], which ranks overall sexuality from completely [[heterosexual]] to completely [[homosexual]].

The first sexological book Kinsey publishes, which is on the sexual habits of the male, is a large-scale success and a best seller. Kinsey turns his research to women and is met with more controversy. With the release of the volume on female sexual behavior, support for his work declines in a time when Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]'s witch hunts against Communists and homosexuals (the latter known as the [[Lavender scare|Lavender Scare]]) lead the Rockefeller Foundation to withdraw its financial support, fearing that it be labeled "Communist" for backing the subversion of traditional [[American values]].

Kinsey feels he has failed everyone who has ever been a victim of sexual ignorance. A customs officer is tipped off to an importation of some of Kinsey's research material, which only exacerbates the financial hardship of Kinsey's research organization. Kinsey suffers a heart attack, and is found to have developed an addiction to [[barbiturate]]s. Meeting with other [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]]s fails to garner the support needed. Still, Kinsey continues his taking of sex histories.

Returning to the initial interview, Kinsey is asked about love and whether he will ever conduct research on it. He responds that love is impossible to measure and impossible to quantify, but that it is important. Kinsey and Mac pull over to the side of the road for a nature walk. She remarks about a tree that has been there for a thousand years. Kinsey replies that the tree seems to display a strong love in the way its roots grip the earth. The two walk off together, Kinsey remarking "there's a lot of work to do".

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Liam Neeson]] as [[Alfred Kinsey]]
** [[Benjamin Walker (actor)|Benjamin Walker]] as 19-year-old Alfred
** Matthew Fahey as 14-year-old Alfred
** [[Will Denton]] as 10-year-old Alfred
* [[Laura Linney]] as [[Clara McMillen]]
* [[Peter Sarsgaard]] as [[Clyde Martin]]
* [[Chris O'Donnell]] as [[Wardell Pomeroy]]
* [[Timothy Hutton]] as [[Paul Gebhard]]
* [[John Lithgow]] as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
* [[Tim Curry]] as Thurman Rice
* [[Oliver Platt]] as [[Herman B Wells|Herman Wells]]
* [[Dylan Baker]] as Alan Gregg
* [[William Sadler (actor)|William Sadler]] as Kenneth Braun
* [[John McMartin]] as [[Huntington Hartford]]
* [[John Krasinski]] as Ben
* [[Lynn Redgrave]] as Final interview subject
* [[Julianne Nicholson]] as Alice Martin
* [[Veronica Cartwright]] as Sara Kinsey
* [[Kathleen Chalfant]] as Barbara Merkle
* [[Heather Goldenhersh]] as Martha Pomeroy
* [[David Harbour]] as Robert Kinsey
* Judith J.K. Polson as Mildred Kinsey
* Leigh Spofford as Anne Kinsey
* Jenna Gavigan as Joan Kinsey
* [[Luke Macfarlane|Luke MacFarlane]] as Bruce Kinsey
* Bill Buell as Dr. Thomas Lattimore
}}

==Production==
Producer Gail Mutrux handed Bill Condon a biography of Kinsey in 1999 to spark his interest in writing a screenplay. Condon then based his original screenplay on elements in the biography combined with his own original research on Kinsey.<ref name=hot>{{cite news|author=Dunkley, Cathy|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/markets-festivals/condon-s-hot-for-kinsey-biopic-1117875160/|title=Condon's hot for Kinsey biopic|work=Variety|date=October 29, 2002|access-date=July 25, 2015}}</ref>

[[Ian McKellen]] was at one point in negotiations for a supporting role.<ref name=hot/>

==Release==
''Kinsey'' was the first film permitted to show [[Sex organ|human genitalia]] uncensored in [[Japan]], known for its strict censorship policies regarding genitalia.<ref>{{Cite web|date=31 January 2006|title=Why is Japanese Porn Censored?|url=http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515002843/http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=16|archive-date=May 15, 2006|access-date=August 5, 2012|website=Japan Probe}}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Anchor|Critical response}}The [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 90% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 196 reviews, with an average rating of 7.66/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "A biopic of the sex researcher is hailed as adventurous, clever, and subversive, with fine performances by Liam Neeson and Laura Linney."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kinsey |title=Kinsey (2004) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=December 12, 2019}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/kinsey |title=Kinsey Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=December 12, 2019}}</ref> Reviewing in the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', [[Roger Ebert]] gave ''Kinsey'' four out of four stars and hailed it as a "fascinating bio" whose strength lies in "the clarity it brings to its title character ... a complete original, a person of intelligence and extremes", as well as how it "captures its times, and a political and moral climate of fear and repression". Ebert compared Neeson's performance to that of [[Russell Crowe]] in the 2001 biopic ''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=November 18, 2004|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kinsey-2004|title=Kinsey movie review|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=December 11, 2020|via=[[RogerEbert.com]]}}</ref>

{{Anchor|Box office}}The film grossed $10,254,979 domestically and $16,918,723 worldwide on an $11 million budget.<ref name="mojo">{{mojo title|kinsey|Kinsey}}</ref>

===Top ten lists===
''Kinsey'' was listed on many critics' top ten lists for 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2004 Film Critic Top Ten List|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2004/toptens.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225093317/http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2004/toptens.shtml|archive-date=December 25, 2007|access-date=December 25, 2007|website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref>
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* 5th – [[Stephen Holden]], ''[[The New York Times]]''
* 5th – [[Owen Gleiberman]], ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
* 6th – [[Peter Travers]], ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
* 7th – [[A.O. Scott]], ''[[The New York Times]]''
* 7th – Jack Matthews, ''[[New York Daily News]]''
* 7th – Kevin Thomas, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
* 7th – Ruthie Stein, ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''
* 8th – [[Ty Burr]], ''[[The Boston Globe]]'
* 8th – [[Richard Schickel]], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''
* 9th – Scott Foundas, ''[[L.A. Weekly]]''
* 10th – [[David Ansen]], ''[[Newsweek]]''
* Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – [[Joe Morgenstern]], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
* Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – Carina Chocano, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
* Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – [[Ella Taylor]], ''[[L.A. Weekly]]''
{{Div col end}}

===Awards and nominations===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
|[[77th Academy Awards|2004]] || [[Academy Awards]] || [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] || [[Laura Linney]] || {{nom}} ||<ref>{{Cite web |title=2005 {{!}} Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=www.oscars.org |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3|[[62nd Golden Globe Awards|2004]] || rowspan=3|[[Golden Globe Awards]] || [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture - Drama]] || ''Kinsey'' || {{nom}}
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners & Nominees 2005 |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/2005 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=www.goldenglobes.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actor - Drama Film]] || [[Liam Neeson]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actress - Drama Film]] || rowspan="2"| [[Laura Linney]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[11th Screen Actors Guild Awards|2004]] || [[Screen Actors Guild Award|Screen Actors Guild Awards]] || [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role|Outstanding Supporting Actress]] || {{nom}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards {{!}} Screen Actors Guild Awards |url=https://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/11th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=www.sagawards.org}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=4|[[10th Critics' Choice Awards|2004]] || rowspan=4|[[Broadcast Film Critics Association]] || [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] || ''Kinsey'' || {{nom}}
| rowspan="4" |<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Kinsey (2004) - Awards |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/kinsey-v290324/awards |access-date=October 22, 2022 |website=[[AllMovie]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] || [[Peter Sarsgaard]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] || [[Laura Linney]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] || [[Bill Condon]] || {{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=4|[[20th Independent Spirit Awards|2004]] || rowspan=4|[[Independent Spirit Awards]] || [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Film|Best Film]] || ''Kinsey'' || {{nom}}
| rowspan="4" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-11-30 |title=2005 Independent Spirit Awards Nominees Announced |url=https://www.hollywood.com/general/2005-independent-spirit-awards-nominees-announced-57212337 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Hollywood.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead|Best Male Lead]] || [[Liam Neeson]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead|Best Female Lead]] || [[Laura Linney]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] || [[Bill Condon]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|2004]]
|[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]
|[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|[[Liam Neeson]]
|{{won}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2004-12-13 |title=Sideways takes US critics' awards |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/dec/13/news1 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2004 || [[American Film Institute|American Film Institute Awards]]|| Top 10 American Films of 2004 || rowspan="2" |''Kinsey'' || {{won}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI AWARDS 2004 |url=https://www.afi.com/award/afi-awards-2004/ |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=American Film Institute |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |2004 || rowspan="2" |[[National Board of Review]] || [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]] || {{won}}
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=2004 Archives |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/2004/ |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=National Board of Review |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] || [[Laura Linney]] || {{won}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[2004 National Society of Film Critics Awards|2004]] || rowspan=2|[[National Society of Film Critics]] || [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] || [[Peter Sarsgaard]] || {{nom}}
| rowspan="3" |<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Kinsey (2004) Awards & Festivals |url=https://mubi.com/films/kinsey/awards |access-date=October 22, 2022 |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] || [[Laura Linney]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[54th Berlin International Film Festival|2005]] || [[Berlin International Film Festival]] || [[Golden Bear]] || ''Kinsey'' || {{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[London Film Critics Circle Awards 2004|2004]] || rowspan=2|[[London Film Critics Circle]] || [[London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year|British Actor of the Year]] || [[Liam Neeson]] || {{nom}}
| rowspan="2" |<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year|British Actress of the Year]] || [[Laura Linney]] || {{nom}}
|-
|2004 || [[Writers Guild of America]] || [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] || [[Bill Condon]] || {{nom}}
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==

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