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Academy Award Makeup 1989 · Nominated
Scrooged. Jump to. 1 win & 5 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1989 Nominee Oscar. Best Makeup. Thomas R. Burman. Bari Dreiband-Burman. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. 1990 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Fantasy Film. 1990 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Actor. Bill Murray. 1990 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Special Effects.
Awards. Legacy. See also. References. Bibliography. External links. Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue.
Nov 23, 1988 · Scrooged: Directed by Richard Donner. With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover. A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Richard Donner
- 1988-11-23
Mitch Glazer. Writer. Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
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It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup, but lost to the fantasy-comedy film Beetlejuice.
Roger Ebert November 23, 1988. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “Scrooged” is one of the most disquieting, unsettling films to come along in quite some time. It was obviously intended as a comedy, but there is little comic about it, and indeed the movie’s overriding emotions seem to be pain and anger.
Dec 13, 2014 · On Nov. 23, 1988, moviegoers were greeted by a slightly darker holiday tale. Bill Murray’s Scrooged was greeted as a “scathing satire” and eventually became a holiday staple. The Hollywood ...
