The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Acting
Taron Egerton sings live and shatters every biopic expectation.
Costume
Those outfits deserve their own Oscar category, honestly.
Direction
Dexter Fletcher turns trauma into actual musical numbers, not just montages.
Director
Dexter Fletcher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taron Egerton insisted on singing everything live—no lip-syncing—which Rami Malek's Bohemian Rhapsody notably didn't do, sparking endless comparisons.
The film's R rating explicitly for 'sexual content' made it the first major studio LGBTQ+ romance to get that classification, which the filmmakers celebrated as refusing to sanitize queer identity.
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