The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
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Academy Award Sound 1980 · Nominated
The Electric Horseman. Jump to. 1 win & 1 nomination. Academy Awards, USA. 1980 Nominee Oscar. Best Sound. Arthur Piantadosi. Les Fresholtz. Michael Minkler. Al Overton Jr. Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain. 1981 Winner CEC Award. Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) USA. Contribute to this page. Suggest an edit or add missing content.
Dec 21, 1979 · The Electric Horseman: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson. A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1979-12-21
The film was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1980 for Best Sound (Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Al Overton Jr.). Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called the film "a nicely polished piece of entertainment from director Sydney Pollack, who regularly works with the biggest of stars and rarely lets his camera get in ...
It's an oddball love story about a guy and a girl and a prize racehorse, and it has a chase scene and some smooching and a happy ending. It could have starred Tracy and Hepburn, or Gable and Colbert, but it doesn't need to because this time it stars Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
Although he never won an Academy Award, Stark earned the most prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1980 and the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award from the Producers Guild of America in 1999.
- Sydney Pollack
- Robert Redford
After retiring from the rodeo where he was five-time all-around world rodeo champion, Sonny Steele is signed by multinational conglomerate Ampco to be the spokesman for their breakfast cereal, Ranch Breakfast. This corporate job, where he is paraded around on horses in electrically-lit cowboy get-ups and the publicity department makes him grow ...
Jun 25, 2015 · Sonny’s more or less forced to wear a ridiculous purple cowboy outfit with Christmas lights strung along the fringe, hence: the Electric Horseman. The metaphor works double-time. First, while nothing new, the depiction of the cowboy as a dying breed or a commercialized bastardization of the True American Hero is particularly effective in ...
