Good Morning, Vietnam
1988
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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 1991 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Picture 1991 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1991 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 1991 · Nominated
Awakenings. Jump to. 6 wins & 11 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1991 Nominee Oscar. Best Picture. Walter F. Parkes. Lawrence Lasker. 1991 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Robert De Niro. 1991 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Steven Zaillian. Chicago Film Critics Association Awards.
Jan 11, 1991 · With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
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- Penny Marshall
- PG-13
- Biography, Drama
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is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir "Awakenings". Directed by Penny Marshall, the film was produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates at Yale University and optioned it a few years later. The films stars Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelso...
•Best Actor — Robert De Niro
•Best Adapted Screenplay — Steven Zaillian
A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. When the first patient awakes, he is now an adult having gone into a coma in his early teens. Th...
Feb 14, 2024 · Awakenings (1990) Photo : ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection. Penny Marshall. Film: “Awakenings” (1990) Distributed by: Columbia Pictures. Written by: Steven Zaillian (based on...
Awakenings was a Best Picture and adapted screenplay Academy Award nominee, and De Niro got a Best Actor nomination. De Niro and Williams shared best actor honors from the National Board of Review, and De Niro won the Best Actor award from the New York Film Critics.
- Penny Marshall
- Robin Williams
Dec 20, 1990 · The film, directed with intelligence and heart by Penny Marshall, is based on a famous 1972 book by Oliver Sacks, the British-born New York neurologist whose (ital) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (unital) is a classic of medical literature.
The 63rd Academy Awards | 1991. Honoring movies released in 1990, Shrine Civic Auditorium ... Awakenings. Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, Producers. Nominees.
