''Tantrums & Tiaras'' is a 1997

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

about the private life of English musician

Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Rocket Man" after his 1972 hit single of the same name, John has led a commercially successful career a ...

, directed by his husband,

David Furnish David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is married to English singer, pianist and composer Sir Elton John. Early life and education David Furnish was born in Toronto, Ontario, th ...

. It was recorded during John's

Made in England Tour On the back of the success of the album, '' Made in England'', Elton John went out on tour to promote it. The 1995 leg of the tour covered fifteen European countries, but strangely missing out John's homeland of the United Kingdom. John with h ...

in 1995 and includes parts of interviews and concerts. Included in the documentary is a large part of a concert John performed in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

in November 1995. In 1998, the documentary won a

Chris Award The Columbus International Film + Animation Festival is a Columbus, Ohio, United States annual film festival which is designed to encourage and promote the use of film and video in all forms of education and communication. It is the first and o ...

at the Columbus Film and Video Festival. It was also re-released as a "Director's Cut" in 1997, and then on DVD in November 2008 with extra material.

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* Documentary films about singers British television documentaries Elton John 1997 films 1997 documentary films Rocket Pictures films 1990s English-language films 1990s British films British musical documentary films {{music-documentary-film-stub