Editing Coal Miner's Daughter (film)

{{Short description|1980 film by Michael Apted}}
{{About|the film||Coal Miner's Daughter (disambiguation)}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Coal Miner's Daughter
| image          = Coal_miners_daughter.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Michael Apted]]
| producer       = [[Bernard Schwartz (producer)|Bernard Schwartz]]
| screenplay     = [[Thomas Rickman (writer)|Tom Rickman]]
| based_on       = {{Based on|''Coal Miner's Daughter''<br>1976 book|[[Loretta Lynn]]<br>[[George Vecsey]]}}
| starring       = [[Sissy Spacek]]<br />[[Tommy Lee Jones]]<br />[[Beverly D'Angelo]]<br />[[Levon Helm]]
| music          = [[Owen Bradley]]
| cinematography = [[Ralf D. Bode]]
| editing        = [[Arthur Schmidt (film editor)|Arthur Schmidt]]
| distributor    = [[Universal Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1980|03|07}}
| runtime        = 124 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $15 million<br /><small></small>(equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|15000000|1980}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}})<ref name="box office">[http://powergrid.thewrap.com/project/coal-miners-daughter Box Office Information for ''Coal Miner's Daughter''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116183023/http://powergrid.thewrap.com/project/coal-miners-daughter |date=2017-01-16 }} ''[[The Wrap]]''. Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref>
| gross          = $67.18 million<br /><small></small>(equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|67180000|1980}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}})<ref name="box office" />
}}
'''''Coal Miner's Daughter''''' is a 1980 American [[biographical]] [[musical film|musical]] film directed by [[Michael Apted]] and written by [[Thomas Rickman (writer)|Tom Rickman]]. It follows the story of country music singer [[Loretta Lynn]] from her early teen years in a poor family and getting married at 15 to her rise as one of the most influential country musicians. Based on Lynn's 1976 biography of the same name by [[George Vecsey]], the film stars [[Sissy Spacek]] as Lynn. [[Tommy Lee Jones]], [[Beverly D'Angelo]] and [[Levon Helm]] are featured in supporting roles. [[Ernest Tubb]], [[Roy Acuff]], and [[Minnie Pearl]] make cameo appearances as themselves.

A film on Lynn's life was intended to be made since the release of the biography. Production for the film began in March 1979, and Lynn herself chose Spacek to portray her on screen after seeing a photograph of her, despite being unfamiliar with her films. The film's soundtrack featured all of Lynn's hit singles, which were all sung by Spacek, as well as [[Patsy Cline]]'s "[[Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson song)|Sweet Dreams]]" sung by D'Angelo and Cline's "[[Back in Baby's Arms]]" sung by Spacek and D'Angelo in a duet. The soundtrack reached the top 40 on the ''[[Billboard 200]]'' chart and was certified gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]].

[[Universal Pictures]] released ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' theatrically on March 7, 1980. The critical consensus on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] calls it "a solidly affecting story".  The film grossed $67.18 million in North America against a budget of $15 million, becoming the [[1980 in film|seventh highest-grossing film of 1980]]. The film received seven nominations at the [[53rd Academy Awards]], including for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], with Spacek winning [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]. At the [[38th Golden Globe Awards]], it garnered four nominations and won two; [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture&nbsp;– Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress]]  (for Spacek).

The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the [[Library of Congress]] and was selected to be preserved in the United States [[National Film Registry]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tartaglione|first=Nancy|title=National Film Registry Adds 'Purple Rain', 'Clerks', 'Gaslight' & More; 'Boys Don't Cry' One Of Record 7 Pics From Female Helmers|url=https://deadline.com/2019/12/national-film-registry-2019-record-female-directors-boys-dont-cry-purple-rain-clerks-gaslight-platoon-full-list-1202806279/|magazine=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=December 11, 2019|access-date=December 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Women Rule 2019 National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-116/women-rule-2019-national-film-registry/2019-12-11/|access-date=2020-09-18|website=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-09-18|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

==Plot==
In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb, a [[Van Lear, Kentucky|Van Lear]] coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in [[Butcher Hollow, Kentucky]] (pronounced by locals as "Butcher Holler").

In 1948, at the age of 15, Loretta marries 22-year-old Oliver "Mooney" (aka Doo, short for Doolittle) Lynn, becoming a mother of four by the time she is 19. The family moves to northern Washington State, where Doo works in the forest industry and Loretta sings occasionally at local honky-tonks on weekends. After some time, Loretta makes an occasional appearance on local radio.

By the time Loretta turns 25, [[Norm Burley]], the owner of [[Zero Records]], a small Canadian record label, hears Loretta sing during one of her early radio appearances. Burley gives the couple the money needed to travel to Los Angeles to cut a demo tape from which her first single, "[[I'm a Honky Tonk Girl]]", is made. After returning home from the sessions, Doo suggests he and Loretta go on a promotional tour to push the record. Doo shoots his own publicity photo for Loretta, and spends many late nights writing letters to show promoters and to radio disc jockeys all over the South. After Loretta receives an emergency phone call from her mother telling her that her father had died, she and Doo hit the road with records, photos, and their children. The two embark on an extensive promotional tour of radio stations across the South.

En route, and unbeknownst to the couple, Loretta's first single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", hits the charts based on radio and jukebox plays, and earns her a spot on the [[Grand Ole Opry]]. In the summer of 1961, after 17 straight weekly performances on the Opry, she is invited to sing at [[Ernest Tubb Record Shop]]'s [[Midnite Jamboree]] after her performance that night. Country superstar [[Patsy Cline]], one of Loretta's idols, who had recently been hospitalized from a near-fatal car wreck, inspires Loretta to dedicate Patsy's newest hit "[[I Fall to Pieces]]" to the singer herself as a musical get-well card. Cline listens to the broadcast that night from her hospital room and sends her husband Charlie Dick to Ernest Tubb Record Shop to fetch Loretta so the two can meet. A close friendship with Cline follows, which is abruptly ended by Cline's death in a [[1963 Camden PA-24 crash|plane crash]] on March 5, 1963.

The next few years are a whirlwind. The stress of extensive touring, keeping up her image, overwork, and trying to keep her marriage and family together cause Loretta a nervous breakdown, which she suffers onstage at the beginning of a concert. After a year off at her ranch in [[Hurricane Mills, Tennessee]], Loretta goes back on the road, returning to establish herself as the "First Lady of Country Music".

The film closes with Loretta recounting the story of her life through her 1970 hit song "[[Coal Miner's Daughter (song)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]" to a sold-out audience.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Sissy Spacek]] as [[Loretta Lynn]]
* [[Tommy Lee Jones]] as [[Oliver Lynn|Doolittle Lynn]]
* [[Beverly D'Angelo]] as [[Patsy Cline]]
* [[Levon Helm]] as Ted Webb
* [[William Sanderson]] as Lee Dollarhide
* [[Phyllis Boyens]] as Clara Ramey Webb, Loretta's mother
* Bob Hannah as [[Charlie Dick]]
* [[Grant Turner (radio host)|Grant Turner]] as [[Grand Ole Opry]] announcer (uncredited)
* [[Ernest Tubb]] as himself
* [[Roy Acuff]] as himself
* [[Minnie Pearl]] as herself
* [[Bob Elkins]] as Bobby Day
}}

==Production==
Lynn chose Spacek to portray her, making the decision based on a photograph of the actress despite being unfamiliar with her films, a story Spacek recounts in a [[Audio commentary|DVD audio commentary]] for the collector's edition of the film. Initially, Spacek was reluctant to participate, and asked to do her own singing in the film in hopes of scaring the studio from pursuing her for the role. At the time that Lynn prematurely announced on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' that "Sissy Spacek is going to play me," the actress was torn between friends who advised her to do Lynn's film and those who advised her to choose instead a [[Nicolas Roeg]] project due to start filming at the same time. Talking it over with her mother-in-law that evening, Spacek was advised to pray for a sign, which she did. She and her husband subsequently went for a drive in his mother's car, where the radio was tuned to a classical music station that changed formats at sunset every evening. As the couple pulled out of the parking garage, the title line of the song "Coal Miner's Daughter" came from the radio.<ref name="dvdcomm-apted">Sissy Spacek and Michael Apted. Feature commentary track, ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' 25th Anniversary/Collector's Edition, 2005.</ref>

In her 2012 memoir ''My Extraordinary Ordinary Life'', Sissy Spacek states that she became fast friends with Loretta Lynn and worked to emulate her unique accent and speech patterns by spending an afternoon tape-recording the singer while she told stories of her life, some of which made it into the script. She then listened to the tapes and repeated the lines until she captured her own version of Lynn. Though Spacek had started out as a singer, the producers considered dubbing Loretta's vocals over her performance. Lynn encouraged them to allow Spacek to do all of her own singing in the film and helped the actress learn to sing and play guitar in her style. The film's soundtrack featured Spacek's singing all of Lynn's hits sung in the movie, including "Coal Miner's Daughter".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Spacek|first=Sissy|title=My Extraordinary Ordinary Life|publisher=Hyperion|year=2012|isbn=9781401304270|location=New York|pages=185–187}}</ref>

The locations included [[Blackey, Kentucky|Blackey]], [[Eolia, Kentucky|Eolia]], [[Flat Gap, Kentucky|Flatgap]], Bottom Fork, [[Redfox, Knott County, Kentucky|Redfox]] in [[Knott County, Kentucky|Knott]] and [[Letcher County, Kentucky|Letcher Counties]] in Kentucky; and [[Pardee, Virginia|Pardee]], a former coal camp on the Virginia side of [[Black Mountain (Kentucky)|Black Mountain]]. Interiors of Lynn's childhood home were shot in a warehouse in [[Norton, Virginia]]. Scenes were also shot in Loretta Lynn's Madison, Tennessee, home on Barbara Drive.<ref name=samadams>{{cite news |author=Adams, Sam |title=Good memories still linger for 'Coal Miner's Daughter' |url=https://www.themountaineagle.com/articles/good-memories-still-linger-for-coal-miners-daughter// |newspaper=The Mountain Eagle |location=Whitesburg, Kentucky |date=April 5, 2017 |access-date=September 24, 2018 }}</ref>

The replica of Lynn's home in [[Butcher Hollow, Kentucky|Butcher Hollow]], built at Bottom Fork, Letcher County, Kentucky, was burned by arsonists. It was on the front porch of that house that [[Levon Helm]], drummer and singer of the rock group [[The Band]], made his acting debut as Lynn's father.<ref name=samadams/>

In an interview with [[Merv Griffin]] broadcast on November 7, 1978, Loretta Lynn said that Harrison Ford had been originally cast.

==Historical inaccuracies== 
The film emphasizes Lynn's self-fabricated myth that she got married at the age of 13. The myth went uncontested until May 2012, when the [[Associated Press]] unearthed her Kentucky birth certificate, revealing that Lynn was actually almost 16 at the time of her marriage.<ref name=AP>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-05-18/loretta-lynn/55068814/1|title=AP: Country singer Loretta Lynn married at 15, not 13|work=USA Today|date=May 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831101136/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-05-18/loretta-lynn/55068814/1|archive-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gazette.com/news/loretta-lynn-3-years-older-than-shes-led-people-to-believe/article_20dcc144-c518-5ce3-8b88-33328731143d.html|title=Loretta Lynn 3 years older than she's led people to believe|work=The Gazette|date=May 18, 2012}}</ref> When contacted by the AP before the exposé went to publication, Lynn's spokeswoman declined comment.<ref name=AP/> The discrepancy is significant as it alters the narrative Lynn spun in books and other public forums. In reality, it would have been illegal for a girl under the age of 15 to marry in Kentucky.

There are other events depicted in the film that are contrary to actual facts:
*Patsy Cline never owned a tour bus, although she had thought about purchasing one shortly before her death.
*Cline's plane crash did not occur early in the morning as the DJ on the radio in Lynn's bedroom stated; it happened shortly after 6:00 in the evening.
*"[[You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)]]" was not inspired by one of Mooney's cheating episodes, which was caught by Lynn while touring with Cline, as the film suggests. The inspiration came from a fan of Lynn, whom she met backstage. The fan told Lynn how another woman had been trying to steal her husband from her, to which Lynn replied, "Why she ain't woman enough to take your man," instantly giving Lynn an idea for a song title. Also, the film portrayed Lynn singing the song to Cline while writing it; the song was not recorded until late 1965, nearly three years after Cline's death; so it was likely that Lynn didn't write the song (and met the fan who inspired it) until after Cline's death as well.
*In the film, just before Cline's death, Lynn tells her she is pregnant with twins; given this is the last time they see each other, this would have happened February to March 1963. Lynn's twin daughters were in fact born August 6, 1964, roughly 17 months after Cline's death.

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name         = Coal Miner's Daughter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
| type         = soundtrack
| artist       = various artists
| cover        = Coal Miner's Daughter.png
| alt          = 
| released     = March 7, 1980
| recorded     = 1980<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes|title=Coal Miner's Daughter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|others=Various Artists|year=1980|type=[[Compact disc|CD]]|publisher=[[MCA Records|MCA Nashville]]|id=088 170 122-2}}</ref>
| venue        = 
| studio       = [[Bradley's Barn]], [[Mount Juliet, Tennessee]]
| genre        = [[Country music|Country]]
| length       = 
| label        = [[MCA Records|MCA Nashville]]
| producer     = [[Owen Bradley]]
| prev_title   = 
| prev_year    = 
| next_title   = 
| next_year    = 
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1= [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusicreview">{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/coal-miners-daughter-r84240/review | title=allmusic (((Coal Miner's Daughter - Various Artist > Review))) | publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]] | work=[[AllMusic]] | access-date=July 17, 2011}}</ref>
}}
'''''Coal Miner's Daughter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''''' was released on March 7, 1980, under the [[MCA Records|MCA Nashville]] label.<ref name="cd">{{cite web|last=Lynn |first=Loretta |url=https://www.amazon.com/Coal-Miners-Daughter-Various-Artists/dp/B00004C4Q6/ |title=Coal Miner's Daughter: Various Artists: Music |website=Amazon |access-date=2012-04-06}}</ref> It included music by Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, and Sissy Spacek except for the "End Credits Medley" and material by other artists that were not under contract to MCA.
The album was certified Gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] on January 11, 1982<ref name="riaa">{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database|title=RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=2012-04-20}}</ref> and has been released on vinyl,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Coal-Miners-Daughter-Loretta-Soundtrack/dp/B001AV1ASE/ |title=Coal Miner's Daughter / Loretta Lynn / LP Soundtrack: Sissy Spacek, Beverly D"Angelo: Music |website=Amazon |access-date=2012-04-06}}</ref> cassette tape,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Coal-Miners-Daughter-Various-Artists/dp/B000002O0D/ |title=Coal Miner's Daughter: Various Artists: Music |website=Amazon |access-date=2012-04-06}}</ref> and CD.<ref name="cd" /> Levon Helm's "[[Blue Moon of Kentucky]]" was released as a single on 7-inch vinyl, both as a double-A-side and also with [[Allen Toussaint]]'s "[[Working in the Coal Mine]]", a non-album track also sung by Helm, on the B-side.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theband.hiof.no/albums/coal_miners_daughter.html|title=Soundtrack Album: Coal Miner's Daughter|website=theband.hiof.no}}</ref> The soundtrack would win [[Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year]] in 1980, the first of only two soundtracks to do so. (''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)|O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' would be the other in 2001.)

{{track listing
| extra_column    = Performer
| title1          = The Titanic
| writer1         = [[A.P. Carter]], [[Sara Carter]], [[Maybelle Carter]]
| extra1          = [[Sissy Spacek]]
| length1         = 2:29
| title2          = [[Blue Moon of Kentucky]]
| writer2         = [[Bill Monroe]]
| extra2          = [[Levon Helm]]
| length2         = 2:51
| title3          = There He Goes
| writer3         = [[Eddie Miller (songwriter)|Eddie Miller]], Durwood Haddock, W.S. Stevenson
| extra3          = Sissy Spacek
| length3         = 2:11
| title4          = [[I'm a Honky Tonk Girl]]
| writer4         = [[Loretta Lynn]]
| extra4          = Sissy Spacek
| length4         = 2:22
| title5          = [[Amazing Grace]]
| writer5         = [[John Newton]]
| extra5          = Funeral Guests
| length5         = 2:08
| title6          = [[Walkin' After Midnight]]
| writer6         = Donn Hecht, Alan Block
| extra6          = [[Beverly D'Angelo]]
| length6         = 2:21
| title7          = [[Crazy (Willie Nelson song)|Crazy]]
| writer7         = [[Willie Nelson|H.W. Nelson]]
| extra7          = Beverly D'Angelo
| length7         = 2:45
| title8          = [[I Fall to Pieces]]
| writer8         = [[Hank Cochran]], [[Harlan Howard]]
| extra8          = Sissy Spacek
| length8         = 2:48
| title9          = [[Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson song)|Sweet Dreams]]
| writer9         = [[Don Gibson]]
| extra9          = Beverly D'Angelo
| length9         = 2:37
| title10         = [[Back in Baby's Arms]]
| writer10        = [[Bob Montgomery (songwriter)|Bob Montgomery]]
| extra10         = Sissy Spacek, Beverly D'Angelo
| length10        = 2:10
| title11         = [[One's on the Way]]
| writer11        = [[Shel Silverstein]]
| extra11         = Sissy Spacek
| length11        = 2:42
| title12         = [[You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)|You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man]]
| writer12        = Lynn
| extra12         = Sissy Spacek
| length12        = 2:18
| title13         = [[You're Lookin' at Country]]
| writer13        = Lynn
| extra13         = Sissy Spacek
| length13        = 2:26
| title14         = [[Coal Miner's Daughter (song)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]
| writer14        = Lynn
| extra14         = Sissy Spacek
| length14        = 3:04
}}

===Charts and certifications===

'''Weekly charts'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Chart (1980)
! Peak<br />position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=283}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 98
|-
| Canada Country Albums (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref name="rpmcanadaalbums">{{cite magazine| url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4710.pdf | title=RPM Country 25 Albums | magazine=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] | volume=33 | issue=7 | access-date=19 April 2020 | date=May 10, 1980 }}</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
| Canada Top Albums (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')
| align="center"| 23
|-
| US Top Country Albums (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')
| align="center"| 2
|-
| US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]
| align="center"| 40
|}
'''Year-end Charts'''
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (1980)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
| Canada Top Albums (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.0275.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums of 1980 - December 20, 1980}}</ref>
| align="center"| 97
|-
|}

'''Certifications'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!scope="col"|Country
!scope="col"|[[List of music recording certifications|Certification]]
|-
|[[Recording Industry Association of America|United States]]
| Gold<ref name="riaa" />
|}

{{s-start}}
{{s-bef | before= ''[[Together (Oak Ridge Boys album)|Together]]'' by [[The Oak Ridge Boys]]}}
{{s-ttl | title= ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' Country Albums [[List of number-one country albums of 1980 (Canada)|number-one album]] | years= May 10–31, 1980}}
{{s-aft | after=  ''Together'' by The Oak Ridge Boys}}
{{s-end}}

==Reception==
===Box office===
In its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' was number 1 at the box office, grossing $3.6 million in 796 theaters. The film grossed a total of $67.1 million in the United States and Canada, becoming the [[1980 in film|seventh highest-grossing film of 1980 in North America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3996733957/|title=Coal Miner's Daughter|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=December 8, 2017}}</ref>

===Critical response===
[[File:SissySpacekHSHWOFAug2011.jpg|thumb|216x216px|[[Sissy Spacek]]'s portrayal of [[Loretta Lynn]] garnered widespread critical acclaim, earning her the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].]]
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' holds an approval rating of 84% based on 63 reviews, with an [[weighted arithmetic mean|average rating]] of 7.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Like a classic traditional country song, ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' draws on time-tested formula -- and undeniable talent -- to tell a solidly affecting story."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|coal_miners_daughter|Coal Miner's Daughter}}</ref>  On [[Metacritic]], which assigns a rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/coal-miners-daughter|title=Coal Miner's Daughter|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 8, 2017}}</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "a thoughtful, endearing film charting the life of singer Loretta Lynn from the depths of poverty in rural Kentucky to her eventual rise to the title of 'queen of country music.'"<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1979/film/reviews/coal-miner-s-daughter-1200424762/|title=Coal Miner's Daughter|date=31 December 1979|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] from ''[[The Chicago Times]]'' stated that the film "has been made with great taste and style; it's more intelligent and observant than movie biographies of singing stars used to be."<ref>{{cite news|title=Coal Miner's Daughter|work=RogerEbert.com|date=1 January 1980|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/coal-miners-daughter-1980|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[53rd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref name="Oscars1981">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981 |title=The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-07|work=oscars.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0149488.html |title=1980 Academy Awards |access-date=May 9, 2007 |year=2007 }}</ref>
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| Bernard Schwartz
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Sissy Spacek]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| [[Thomas Rickman (writer)|Thomas Rickman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]]
| [[John W. Corso]] and [[John M. Dwyer]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Ralf D. Bode
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Arthur Schmidt (film editor)|Arthur Schmidt]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Richard Portman]], [[Roger Heman Jr|Roger Heman]] and [[James R. Alexander]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
| [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical|Best Edited Feature Film]]
| Arthur Schmidt
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[35th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
| Sissy Spacek
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| Gordon Ecker, James R. Alexander, Richard Portman and Roger Heman Jr.
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[33rd Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| [[Michael Apted]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[38th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Sissy Spacek
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| [[Tommy Lee Jones]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
| [[Beverly D'Angelo]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
| Best Actress
| rowspan="2"| Sissy Spacek
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1980 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards]]
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1980|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{draw|3rd Place}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Sissy Spacek
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
|-
| [[1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| rowspan="2"| Sissy Spacek
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[33rd Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best  Adapted Screenplay|Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium]]
| Thomas Rickman
| {{nom}}
|}

The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 2006: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers]] – #70<ref>{{cite web|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/cheers100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=2016-08-14}}</ref>

==Home media==
* This film was released on LaserDisc on two separate releases. The first release was in May 1980, and the extended play version was released in July 1981. These releases were both made by MCA DiscoVision.
* The film was released in the VHS format in the 1980s by MCA Home Video and on March 1, 1992, by MCA/Universal Home Video.
* On September 13, 2005, Universal released a 25th Anniversary Edition on DVD in widescreen (1.85:1) format and featuring the music tracks remixed to 5.1 Dolby Digital stereo, leaving the dialogue and effects tracks as they were on the original mono soundtrack from 1980.
* That same DVD was included in a four-pack DVD set that also included ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'', ''[[The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)|The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas]]'', and ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes]]''.
* On January 7, 2014, [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment|Universal Pictures]] released the film on Blu-ray.

==Broadway adaptation==
On May 10, 2012, at the [[Grand Ole Opry]], Lynn announced that [[Zooey Deschanel]] was to portray her in a Broadway musical adaptation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://playbill.com/news/article/165845-Zooey-Deschanel-Will-Star-in-Broadway-Stage-Adaptation-of-Coal-Miners-Daughter|title=Zooey Deschanel Will Star in Broadway Stage Adaptation of "Coal Miner's Daughter"|first=Andrew|last=Gans|work=Playbill.com|publisher=Playbill, Inc.|date=May 11, 2012|access-date=May 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331221508/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/165845-Zooey-Deschanel-Will-Star-in-Broadway-Stage-Adaptation-of-Coal-Miners-Daughter|archive-date=March 31, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

One episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', titled "[[Colonel Homer]]", is based partly on this film. The episode also stars Beverly D'Angelo as cocktail waitress [[Lurleen Lumpkin]].

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb title|0080549|Coal Miner's Daughter}}
* [https://www.allmovie.com/movie/coal-miners-daughter-am32331 ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' at AllMovie]
* {{TCMDb title|19389|Coal Miner's Daughter}}
* {{AFI film|56388}}
* {{mojo title|coalminersdaughter|Coal Miner's Daughter}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|coal_miners_daughter|Coal Miner's Daughter}}

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