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Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1980 · Winner
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Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1980 · Winner
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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1980 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1980 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Direction 1980 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actress 1980 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1980 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1980 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 1980 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor 1980 · Nominated
Kramer vs. Kramer. Jump to. 41 wins & 26 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1980 Winner Oscar. Best Picture. Stanley R. Jaffe. 1980 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Dustin Hoffman. 1980 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Justin Henry.
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Kramer vs. Kramer received a leading 9 nominations at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor (for Henry) and Best Supporting Actress (for Alexander), and won a leading 5 awards – Best Picture, Best Director (for Benton), Best Actor (for Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (for Streep) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Kramer vs. Kramer, American dramatic film, released in 1979, that tells the wrenching story of a divorce and custody battle from the point of view of the adults. The movie, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, won numerous awards, among them the Academy Award for best picture.
Ted Kramer (Hoffman) is a high-powered advertising executive who focuses almost exclusively on his work. As the movie begins, he has just landed a large account for his company. After celebrating, he arrives home to his wife, Joanna (Streep), who announces that she is leaving him. Ted does not take her seriously at first but panics when she tells him that she is also leaving their six-year-old son, Billy (Justin Henry). Over the next few weeks, Ted and Billy struggle in Joanna’s absence. Billy challenges his father, and Ted is frequently angered when Billy’s needs interfere with his ability to focus on work. As time goes on, however, Ted becomes less self-centred and adjusts to being Billy’s parent, and Billy gets used to Ted as his caretaker. Ted and his recently divorced neighbour, Margaret (Jane Alexander), who had been Joanna’s confidante, become friends. In a scene that illustrates Ted’s new dedication to his son’s welfare, Billy falls off a jungle gym at a park, badly cutting his face, and Ted races with him to a nearby hospital.
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While his home life improves, Ted’s work situation suffers. Since he is no longer able to devote himself fully at the office, he eventually loses his job. Some 15 months after having left, Joanna returns, saying that she now feels capable of mothering Billy and that she will seek full custody of the child. Ted and Joanna each begin meeting with lawyers and crafting strategies to paint the other as a bad parent. Ted, frantic to get a new job before the custody hearing, negotiates a significant pay decrease in order to secure immediate employment. At the hearing, each lawyer brutally attacks the other parent, bringing up the number of lovers whom Joanna has had during the separation as well as the injury that Billy suffered in the playground while Ted was watching. Though Margaret testifies that Ted has become a devoted parent, custody is ultimately awarded to Joanna. When Ted learns that Billy would have to testify if he should appeal, he drops that idea and prepares Billy for the new situation. On the day that Billy is to go home with Joanna, she tells Ted that she has realized that Billy’s home is with him and that she will not be taking him.
Kramer vs. Kramer was based on a 1977 novel of the same title by Avery Corman. François Truffaut was considered to direct the film, and Nestor Almendros, who frequently worked with Truffaut, was hired as cinematographer. Eventually, Robert Benton, who adapted the story for the screen, was chosen to direct. During filming, Hoffman and Streep reportedly had a strained working relationship as Hoffman allegedly employed questionable techniques to enhance Streep’s performance. In one noted example, he slapped the actress during a scene without telling her beforehand. Despite such tensions, both gave Oscar-winning performances.
•Studios: Columbia Pictures and Stanley Jaffe Productions
•Director: Robert Benton
•Writer: Robert Benton (screenplay)
•Cinematography: Nestor Almendros
•Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer)
•Meryl Streep (Joanna Kramer)
•Justin Henry (Billy Kramer)
•Jane Alexander (Margaret Phelps)
•Picture*
•Lead actor* (Dustin Hoffman)
•Supporting actor (Justin Henry)
•Supporting actress* (Meryl Streep)
•Supporting actress (Jane Alexander)
•Cinematography
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With Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry. After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
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- Robert Benton
- 1979-12-19
May 17, 2024 · Leading the field this year was the touching familial drama Kramer vs. Kramer, which scored five Academy Awards from its nine nominations. The film took home Best Picture, Best Director for Robert Benton, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman, Best Supporting Actress for Meryl Streep, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Feb 15, 2019 · In 1979, two movies received 9 nominations: Kramer Vs. Kramer , which won five Oscars, including Best Picture, and Bob Fosse’s dazzling musical, All That Jazz (a better movie than Kramer on any level), which received four technical awards.
8 Nominations. 4 Wins. Kramer vs. Kramer. Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation. Role. Credit. Director: Robert Benton. Writer: Robert Benton. Cast:
