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1961
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Awards
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 1961 · Winner
Academy Award Sound 1961 · Winner
Academy Award Best Motion Picture 1961 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1961 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1961 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1961 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Song) 1961 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography (Color) 1961 · Nominated
Two Academy Awards
- The backlash mounted after Oscar nominee Chill Wills implied that voting for anyone else would be anti-American. In the end, the film won two Academy Awards, for sound and cinematography.
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Academy Awards, USA. 1961 Nominee Oscar. Best Picture. John Wayne. 1961 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Chill Wills. 1961 Nominee Oscar. Best Cinematography, Color.
The Alamo was nominated for seven Academy Awards (winning for Best Sound). Its successful bid for several Oscar nominations over such films as Psycho (which received four nominations) and Spartacus (which received six) was largely due to intense lobbying by producer John Wayne .
The Alamo is a 2004 American war historical drama about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
The Alamo: Directed by John Wayne. With John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon. In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
- (18K)
- Adventure, Drama, History
- John Wayne
- 1960-10-27
Apr 9, 2004 · The Alamo: Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson. Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas.
- (22K)
- Drama, History, War
- John Lee Hancock
- 2004-04-09
BEST MOTION PICTURE. The Alamo – John Wayne. The Apartment – Billy Wilder. Elmer Gantry – Bernard Smith. Sons and Lovers – Jerry Wald. The Sundowners – Fred Zinnemann.
Apr 9, 2004 · Leadership of the Alamo is contested between Col. James Bowie (Jason Patric) and Lt. Col. William Barrett Travis (Patrick Wilson). It involves a show of hands, a contest of wills, a truce, and then the inexorable weakening of Bowie, who is dying of tuberculosis and, it is murmured, other diseases.
