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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 1979 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1979 · Winner
Academy Award Art Direction 1979 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical 1979 · Winner
Academy Award Cinematography 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Picture 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Original Score) 1979 · Nominated
1979 Winner WGA Award (Screen) Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium; Elaine May; Warren Beatty
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The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, with Beatty becoming the second person (after Orson Welles for Citizen Kane) to be nominated for producing (Best Picture), directing (Best Director with Henry), writing (Best Adapted Screenplay with May) and acting (Best Actor) for the same film, and the film won for Best Art Direction.
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American supernatural comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.
Sep 20, 2013 · Shirley Jones and Ricky Schroeder presenting Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan and George Gaines with the Oscar® for Art Direction for "Heaven Can Wait" at the 51st Academy Awards® in 1979.
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With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden. A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
- 1978-06-28
Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American fantasy-comedy film co-directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. It was the second film adaptation of Harry Segall's play of the same name, being preceded by Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards.
Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait, nominated for Academy Awards for best picture and director, is an enduring classic that showcases the filmmaker’s trademark blend of wit, urbanity, and grace.