The Painter Behind the Paintings

There Amy Adams goes, courting Oscar once again.

The five-time nominee will be going for a sixth nod – and, fingers crossed, possibly her first win – with this Christmas’ Big Eyes, the Tim Burton-directed story of Margaret and Walter Keane.

The Keanes were the couple behind those paintings of large-eyed children that became a beyond-lucrative sensation back in the ’50s and ’60s, as the original paintings began to be mass-produced into pictures and postcards and whatnot.

Margaret was the woman with the brush, but Walter (two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz), her so-called blessing of a husband (Margaret was a divorcée with a child when they met), selfishly, greedily took credit for her work (’cause, “sadly, people don’t buy lady art”), which left her in the dark. Big Eyes focuses on her coming into her own and on the Keanes’ subsequent legal battle for creative acknowledgement.

Jason Schwartzman co-stars, as does Veronica Mars’ Krysten Ritter, as Margaret’s championing BFF.

Photo: HitFix.com.