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Nick Cave

Highest Rated: 100% This Much I Know To Be True (2022)

Lowest Rated: 10% Kings (2017)

Birthday: Sep 22, 1957

Birthplace: Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

It was indeed rare for any artist to crossover from one medium to the next, let alone several, and be accomplished in all. But Nick Cave, lead singer and songwriter for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a band that rose out of the punk era to produce some of Australia's more bleak and soul-sucking music, transcended his role as gyrating front man to become a published author and compelling screenwriter. Already penning literate and profound lyrics, Cave found the transition to writing books and movies relatively smooth, thanks to a childhood spent reading literature and the Bible. The latter was the most profound influence on his life and his work - one can hear ech s of the Good Book in his lyrics, even at a cursory listen. Not that Cave actively preached the Word to the spike-haired masses - a decades-long heroin addiction kept him far off the righteous path - but he did allow religion to seep into his music for the sake of artistry, expressing the inherent contradictions between his faith and the life he had lead.

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Highest rated movies

100% 94% This Much I Know To Be True
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100% 92% Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
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100% 85% The Velvet Queen Watchlist 100% Karen Dalton: In My Own Time Watchlist
100% Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
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100% 92% One More Time With Feeling Watchlist
97% 78% 20,000 Days on Earth
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97% 88% Hell or High Water Watchlist
95% 93% Wings of Desire
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95% 87% West of Memphis
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
94% 84% Memoir of a Snail Bill Clarke (Voice) $144.0K 2024
35% 85% Back to Black Original Music $6.0M 2024
100% No Score Yet Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party Self - 2023
42% 36% Blonde Original Music - 2022
100% 94% This Much I Know To Be True Self,
Original Music
- 2022
78% No Score Yet Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex Self - 2022
100% 85% The Velvet Queen Music,
Original Music
- 2021
68% 71% The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Unknown (Character) - 2021
100% No Score Yet Karen Dalton: In My Own Time Self - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Idiot Prayer - Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace Music Performer - 2020
10% 31% Kings Original Music $273.7K 2017
87% 90% Wind River Original Music $33.8M 2017
100% 92% One More Time With Feeling Self - 2016
97% 88% Hell or High Water Original Music $27.0M 2016
30% 33% The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez Self - 2016
93% 78% Prophet's Prey Narrator,
Original Music,
Screenwriter
$13.5K 2015
No Score Yet 96% B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 Unknown (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stranded: The Saints Unknown (Character) - 2015
84% 74% Far From Men Original Music - 2014
97% 78% 20,000 Days on Earth Self,
Original Music
$277.8K 2014
No Score Yet 50% A Few Hours of Spring Original Music - 2012
95% 87% West of Memphis Original Music $309.9K 2012
67% 74% Lawless Screenwriter,
Original Music
$37.3M 2012
100% 92% Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard Unknown (Character) - 2011
65% 62% Days of Grace Original Music - 2011
74% 68% The Road Original Music $8.1M 2009
77% 75% The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Original Music $3.9M 2007
73% 68% Glastonbury Unknown (Character),
Self
$7.3K 2006
71% 60% Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Self $1.0M 2005
86% 85% The Proposition Writer,
Original Music
$1.9M 2005
No Score Yet 100% If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story Unknown (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos Unknown (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 89% September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill Self - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jonas in the Desert Unknown (Character),
Original Music
- 1994
27% 47% Johnny Suede Freak Storm (Character) $8.5K 1991
95% 93% Wings of Desire Self $120.8K 1987

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 48% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Music Performer,
Guest
2017 2024
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Music Performer 2020 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Austin City Limits Music Performer 2014