Warm Springs (2005) HBO Emmy Award Winning Movie

Warm Springs (2005) HBO Emmy Award Winning Movie

Warm Springs is a 2005 HBO television film directed by Joseph Sargent, written by Margaret Nagle, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Bates, Tim Blake Nelson, Jane Alexander, and David Paymer.

After polio threatens his political career in the early 1920s, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Sir Kenneth Branagh) desperately searches for a cure to his newly acquired disease, hoping to regain the use of his legs. He learns of a promising spa in Warm Springs, Georgia, and travels there, only to find it dilapidated. Determined to overcome polio, Roosevelt invests in the spa's revitalization, and sets about recovering, aided by the support of his wife and physical therapist.

This film won 5 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie, Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Jane Alexander and Outstanding Made for Television Movie.