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Rain Man 1988:
Awards:
The film won four Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards (March 1989)
Rain Man won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role of Dustin Hoffman, Best Director, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Art Direction of Ida Random and Linda DeScenna, Best Cinematography of John Seale, Best Film Editing, and Best Music.
The film also won a People's Choice Award as the "Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture". At the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, the film won the Golden Bear award.
Actors:
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino.
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino.
Director:
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson
Annie Hall 1977:
Awards:
The film won Four Academy Awards, one Golden Globe award and five BAFTA awards.
The film won Four Academy Awards, one Golden Globe award and five BAFTA awards.
Director:
Woody Allen
Rocky 1976:
Awards:
The film won three Academy awards and nominated for seven Academy awards.
Three of the Academy awards were for Best picture- Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, Best Director- John G. Avildsen and Best Film editing- Rachard Halsey and Scott Conrad.
The Seven nominations were for Best Actor- Sylvester Stallone, Best Actress- Talia Shire, Best writing , Story and screenplay based on material not previously published or produced- Sylvester Stallone, Best Best supporting actor- Burgess Meredith, Best supporting actor- Burt Young, Best Music (Original Song for Gonna Fly Now- Bill Conti, Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins and Best sound Mixing- Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaighey, Lyle J. Burbridge and Bud Alper.
Actors:
Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Carl Weathers.
Director:
John G. Avildsen
Midnight Cowboy 1969:
Awards:
Midnight Cowboy won three Academy awards and were nominated for four Academy awards. Furthermore the film won six BAFTA's.
The three Academy awards that the film won was for Best Director- John Schlesinger, Best Picture- Jerome Hellman, Best writing based on material from another medium. The Nominated awards were for Best actor in a leading role- Dustin Hoffman, Best actor in a leading role- Jon Voight, Best actress in a supporting role and Best film editing- Hugh A. Robertson.
Eventually they won six of their outstanding BAFTA awards, which were for Best actor- Dustin Hoffman, Best Director- John Schlesinger, Best Film, Best Film Editing- Hugh A. Robertson, Best Screenplay- Waldo Salt and Most promising newcomer to leading film roles- Jon Voight.
Actors:
Dustin Hoffman and John Voight.
Director:
John Schlesinger
In The Heat Of The Night 1969:
Awards:
Overall the film won seven Academy, two nominations and three Golden globe awards with four nominations backed up.
Seven of the Academy awards were for Best Picture, Best Actor- Rod Steigar, Film Editing- Hal Ashby, Best Sound- Samuel Goldwyn Studios and Best Writing adapting screenplay- Stirling Silliphant. The further two nominations were for Best Directing- Norman Jewison and Best Sound Editing- James Richard.
Later on the film won three golden globes which were for Best Motion Picture- Drama, Best Actor For Motion Picture Drama- Rod Steiger and Best Screenplay Stirling Silliphant. They were also nominated for four Acadmey awards, such as: Best Motion Picture Director- Norman Jewison, Best Motion Picture For Drama- Sidney Poitier, Best Supporting Actress- Lee Grant and Best Supporting Actress- Quentin Dean.
Actors:
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates and Lee Grant.
Director:
Norman Jewison
West Side Story 1961:
Awards:
Overall west side story was the most successful film that came out of production from United Artists as
it picked up ten Academy and one Nomination thus making it the most 'Successful film' through awards
ever in the film industry.
The ten Academy awards that the film won were for Best Actor in a supporting role- George Chakris,
Best actress in a supporting role- Rita Moreno, Best art direction, Boris Leven and Victor A. Gangelin,
Best Cinematography and Color- Daniel L. Fapp, Best costume design and color- Irene Sharaff, Best
Director- Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, Best film editing- Thomas Stanford, Best musical picture-
Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, Best Picture- Robert Wise and Best Sound-
Fred Hynes and Gordon Sawyer. The film had one nomination which was for Best Writing, Screenplay
based from another source- Ernest lehman.
Actors:
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakri.
Director:
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise.
Four of the Academy awards were for Best actress in a leading role- Diane Keaton, Best Director- Woody Allen, Best Picture- Charles H. Joffe and Best original Screenplay- Woody Allen and Marshell Brickman.
Additionally in the Golden Globes the film won one award for Best Actress (Motion Picture Musical or Comedy- Diane Keaton.
Eventually the film won five BAFTA awards of Best actress- Diane Keaton, Best direction/Director- Woody Allen, Best editing- Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont, Best film and Best screenplay- Woody Allen and Marshell Brickman.
Actors:
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelly Duvall, Cristopher, Walken and Colleen Dewhurst
Look at your title for this post. You do need to read your posts through before you submit them, Rudi. The important thing is for you to consider which distributors might be interested in YOUR film and why. Try to find examples of distributors that have distributed similar films (think about the budget too).
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