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Academy Award Writing (Story and Screenplay - Written Directly 1969 · Nominated
In 1969 the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen — losing out to Mel Brooks for The Producers — and for a Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy, losing to Neil Simon for The Odd Couple.
1969 Nominee WGA Award (Screen) Best Written American Comedy; Ira Wallach; Peter Ustinov
Hot Millions: Directed by Eric Till. With Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart. Paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.
- (2.3K)
- Comedy, Crime
- Eric Till
- 1969-01-17
Hot Millions won solid reviews and brought Ustinov and Wallach Oscar®: and Writers Guild Award nominations for their screenplay. It also helped launch Smith's and Newhart's film careers, but it was generally overlooked by the ticket-buying public who didn't realize what they were missing.
- Eric Till, Ted Sturgis
- Peter Ustinov
“Hot Millions” abandons convention. Peter Ustinov is the embezzler, a bachelor, usually preoccupied, given to talking to himself and letting the sentences trail off into clearing of the throat.
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A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer. Eric Till. Director.
