Johnny on the cover of EW!
This week’s cover: Congratulations, Johnny Depp! You’re one of our 15 Entertainers of the Decade
Entertainment Weekly, on stands December 4.
Snippet of article:
here
Satellite awards – Depp & PE
International Press Academy
2009 14th Annual SATELLITE AWARDS’99 NOMINATIONS
Winners will be announced at the 14th Annual SATELLITE AWARDS’99 ceremony
to be held on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at the Grand Salon of the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, California.
PE gets 4 nominations:
– Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama
Johnny Depp Public Enemies
– Original Score
Elliot Goldenthal Public Enemies
– Cinematography
Dante Spinotti Public Enemies
– Art Direction & Production Design
Nathan Crowley, Patrick Lumb, William Ladd Skinner Public Enemies
Parnassus also gets 4 nominations.
more here
Johnny Depp to receive Bahamas International Film Festival Career Achievement Award
Johnny Depp will be honored with the prestigious Career Achievement Award at this year’92s Film Festival, taking place December 10-17 in Nassau.
To read more click: here
Entertainment Weekly, December 2009 – Johnny Depp
Title: Johnny Depp
Author: Chris Nashawaty
Publication: Entertainment Weekly
Issue: December 2009
When the decade began, Johnny Depp wasn’t the Johnny Depp of today. Sure, the critics had anointed him one of the finest actors of his generation, but Depp still hadn’t found his footing at the box office. Back then, he was an artistic martyr—Hollywood’s very own Saint Jude, patron saint of cinematic lost causes. For every middling hit on his oddball résumé like Sleepy Hollow or Chocolat, there was a misfire like Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.
Then something happened. Johnny Depp found his stride in the most unlikely of places 1t’s easy to look at 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl, a Bruckheimer blockbuster from Disney, and conclude that Depp had finally sold his soul. But anyone who’s seen his lunatic turn as Capt. Jack Sparrow knows better `It’s one of those without-a-net performances, so singular and subversive that it’s hard to believe he got away with it. Which he utmost didn’t when the studio suits saw the dailies and nearly had a collective cardiac infarction.
The First Pirates made $305 million and proved that Depp’s idiosyncratic gifts could entrance a huge mainstream audience. No one was more baffled by his success than Depp himself. When the actor sat down with EW in 2003, he said,
UK-Caesars Player, December 2009 – Johnny Depp the Outsider
Title: Johnny Depp the Outsider
Author: John Lancer
Publication: UK-Caesars Player
Issue: December 2009
Depp may have been master of his own fate, beginning with his decision to desert his starring role in the hugely popular television series 21 Jump Street to act on the big screen. But it hasn’t always been easy.
“I was Sort of thrown into becoming famous he remembers.”There were some battles l had to fight to retain my individuality. I’d get agents who’d say to me,’ Why are you going against the grain?’ But I knew that if I continued the way they wanted me to, it was death; it was just going to be over with. It was a question of standing tall and saying, I’m not going to be what you want me to be. I’m going to be what l want to be.”‘
Instead of trying to become a leading man, Depp picked unconventional roles ranging from the strange teen in cult filmmaker John Waters’ Cry-Baby to the outcast with shears for hands in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands. And he remained a reluctant celebrity battling against fame with occasional outbursts of pubic anger fuelled by drugs and alcohol. Looking back, he says simply, “I think in many ways I was existing without living”
Now, Depp has left personal angst behind to become one of the hottest stars In Hollywood.
Credits
There are so many people, that helped me, Johnny-Depp.org, active (as staffers, donators of info, pics or even money) or inactive (scripts), that I dedicated this page to them. Thank you all SO SO much for your help! Without your help, this site would not be what it is.
Founder
- Martina, who decided back in February 2004 to create the perfect Johnny Depp site. Till 2016 running the site with help of all those wonderful staffers and fiends.
Previous owners
- Valerie, a short time in 2020
- Debby, from 2016-2019
Previous staffers
- Sarfania, my dear friend, who were my right hand for years and built up most of the galleries.
- Shaman-Art, who kept the site updated for many many years.
- Conny, helping building this site from the beginning and taking over the magazines
- Charly (aka lilo), in the downloads section and starting building this site from the beginning
- Buticut, who took over the magazines section for ages and added thousands of screen caps
- Serena, who merged her site Eternity Johnny Depp with Johnny-Depp.org and added all those great fan encounters her site was about.
- Ginny, doing many many articles, news, and being an old soul on this site in the comments, sending me postcards………
- Andrea, adding news
- Terri, who added news for over a year
- Carezza,
Discography
Johnny is not just an actor, but also a great musician and everyone should look in those facts about his life. Music was of course his first love. Here a list of all his musical works as well as a Narrator discography (other than the soundtracks from the movies where they put some movie lines in)
Bands in his youth (1980-1988)
In his early years, Johnny was a member in several Bands. His first band, Flame, he joined 1978, and he went through several other bands as Zaphyre, Bitch, Bad Boys. In 1980 he joined the band “The Kids” to become their lead guitarist. With the Kids he moved to LA, but they broke up in 1984. There are still some records available from the Kids, which you can find in our downloads section. In 1986, Johnny joins the Rock City Angels. He is also listed as one of the authors for the song “Mary” on their album “Young Man’s Blues” (1988).
Cry Baby (1990)
In this movie he does NOT sing. It seems as if, but no. It is just a perfect lip synchro. Only in the car he sings the first few words parallel to the radio.
Music Videos (1991, 1992, 1994)
Johnny appears as an actor in some Music videos, but he never sings by himself, even if it looks as if.
dropped / rumoured
On this site you can find a list of those movies Johnny was rumoured to play in…or wanted to but the movie didn’t happen at the end or the movie makers wanted Johnny but Johnny did not want…
- Ask the Dust
Val Kilmer and Johnny Depp were attached to the film at various times.
Actor who got the part: Colin Farrell - Aviator
back in 1998 an announcement was made that Johnny is considering playing Howard Hughes in a project called “Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes. - Backdraft
Johnny Depp was reportedly slated to get the part that went to William Baldwin, but he turned it down.
Actor who got the part: William Baldwin - Batman 3
Johnny was rumoured to play the Riddler alongside Batman Christian Bale in the Batman 3 “Dark Knight Rises” movie. - Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola’s first choice for Jonathan Harker. The idea was voided by the studio.
Actor who got the part: Keanu Reeves - Brothers Grimm
Depp was the first choice to play Will Grimm.
Actor who got the part: Matt Damon - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Mentioned as a possible star of director George Clooney’s movie about Chuck Barris.
Actor who got the part: Sam Rockwell - Divine Rapture
A movie Johnny planned to do with Marlon Brando –
Awards
2017
Peoples Choice Award
For Favourite Movie Icon
2016
Peoples Choice Award
For Favourite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture
2014
Distinguished Artisan Award
For the awesome character make-up Johnny has had over the years
2013
New Now Next Award
Coolest Cameo in 21 Jump Street
Kids Choice Awards
Best Movie Actor
2012
Red Nation Film Awards
Brando Award
2011
Teen Choice Award
Choice Animated Movie: Voice – Rango
Choice Movie Actor: Action – The Tourist
Rembrandt Award
Best International Actor
Alice in Wonderland
People’s Choice Award
Favorite Movie Actor
Blimp Award
Favourite Movie Actor
Alice in Wonderland
2010
People’s Choice Award
Actor of Decade
Favourite Movie Actor Films from 2000-2009
2009
Career Achievement Award
Lifework
2008
MTV Movie Award
Best Comedic Performance and Best Villain
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Blimp Award
Favourite Male Movie Star
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
People’s Choice Award
Favourite Male Movie Star
Rembrandt Award (Netherlands)
Best foreign Actor
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Kids’
Box Office
Mortdecai
Date: January 23, 2015
Studio: Lions Gate
Lifetime Gross $7,684,000
Opening $4,200,586 on 2,648 Screens
Into The Woods
Date: December 25, 2015
Studio: BV
Lifetime Gross $126,296,000
Opening $31,051,923 on 2,440 Screens
Transcendence
Date: April 18, 2014
Studio: Warner Bros
Lifetime Gross $23,022,309
Opening $10,886,386 on 3,455 Screens
Lone Ranger
Date: July 3, 2013
Studio: Disney
Lifetime Gross $89,302,115
Opening $29,210,849 on 3,904 Screens
Dark Shadows
Date: May 11, 2012
Studio: Warner Bros.
Lifetime Gross $227,943,333
Opening $29,685,274 on 3755 Screens
Lucky Them
Date: May 30, 2014
Studio: IFC
Lifetime Gross $48,995
Opening $3,728 on 1 Screens
The Rum Diary
Date: 10/28/2011
Studio: FD
Lifetime Gross $13,109,815 in 2,292 theaters
Opening $5,135,369 in 2,273 theaters
Pirates of the Caribbean-On Stranger Tides
Date: 5/20/2011
Studio: BV
Lifetime Gross $241,071,802 in 4,164 theaters
Opening $90,151,958 in 4,155 theaters
Rango
Date: 3/4/2011
Studio: Par.