Beautiful serves as the feature film directorial debut of Sally Field.
 She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1979), and Places in the Heart (1984)
In 2022, it was announced that Field would be a co-star in an upcoming comedy movie entitled 80 for Brady, which would star NFL quarterback Tom Brady along with fellow actresses Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno

