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Academy Award Sound 1979 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 1979 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film Editing 1979 · Winner
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Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1979 · Winner
Academy Award Best Picture 1979 · Winner
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Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 1979 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Soundtrack 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Direction 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Screenplay 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Actor 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1979 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay Written Directly 1979 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1979 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actress 1979 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 1979 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography 1979 · Nominated
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The Deer Hunter. Jump to. 24 wins & 27 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1979 Winner Oscar. Best Picture. Barry Spikings. Michael Deeley. Michael Cimino. John Peverall. 1979 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Robert De Niro. 1979 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Christopher Walken. 1979 Nominee Oscar.
At the 51st Academy Awards, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won five: Best Picture, Best Director for Cimino, Best Supporting Actor for Walken, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. It was Meryl Streep's first Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actress ).
- $49 million
- Stanley Myers
- $15 million
The 51st Academy Awards | 1979. Honoring movies released in 1978, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion ... The Deer Hunter. 9 NOMINATIONS, 5 WINS * Actor in a ...
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The Deer Hunter, American dramatic film, released in 1978, that focused on the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the young American men sent to fight in it. The emotionally shattering movie, cowritten and directed by Michael Cimino, won five Academy Awards, including those for best picture and best editor.
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The film opens at the end of a shift in a steel mill in Clairton, Pennsylvania. A group of workers—Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Steven (John Savage)—join with their friends Stan (John Cazale) and Axel (Chuck Aspegren) and go to the bar owned by John (George Dzundza). Steven is about to marry his pregnant girlfriend, Angela (Rutanya Alda), and Michael, Nick, and Steven are then going to ship out to Vietnam. Nick’s girlfriend, Linda (Meryl Streep), one of the bridesmaids, takes breakfast to her drunken father before leaving for the wedding, and he knocks her down. She later secures permission to stay in the home that Michael and Nick share during their deployment. The wedding takes place in a Russian Orthodox church, and the reception is held in an American Legion hall. Linda catches the bridal bouquet, and Nick proposes to her but seems surprised when she accepts the proposal. Early the next morning, all the men except Steven go on a deer-hunting trip organized by Michael and Nick. Michael, who follows his own strict code of honour regarding hunting, kills a buck with a single shot, and the men return to John’s bar with their trophy.
The movie’s next act begins in the midst of a brutal battle in a small village in Vietnam. Michael is among the small group of Americans defending the village from North Vietnamese attackers. American helicopters arrive with reinforcements, which include Nick and Steven. The Americans are outnumbered, however, and all three are taken prisoner. The prisoners of war (POWs) are held in bamboo cages partially submerged in rat-infested waters, and their captors pull them up to force them to play Russian roulette. When Steven is made to play, he nervously shifts the angle of the gun as he pulls the trigger, and the bullet that is fired only grazes his scalp. He is placed in a cage. Michael, who has thought of a way to escape, insists that he and Nick play against each other, but with three bullets rather than the standard single one in the chamber. After Michael and Nick survive three rounds, Michael turns the gun on the game’s ringleader, and he and Nick seize the weapons of their other captors and kill them. Michael and Nick free Steven from the cage and escape into the river, holding on to a floating log. An American helicopter attempts to rescue them, but only Nick is able to climb into the chopper. Steven falls back into the river, and Michael drops back down to save him. Steven’s legs are shattered in the fall, and Michael carries him on his back. Sometime later, the psychologically damaged Nick is released from a military hospital in Saigon and walks through the city, searching for Michael. Outside a gambling den, Nick meets Julien Grinda (Pierre Segui), a Frenchman who insists that Nick enter the building, in which young Vietnamese men are playing Russian roulette for money. Michael is in the crowd, though Nick does not notice him. Nick grabs a gun from one of the contestants and places it against his own head, drawing an empty chamber. He leaves with Grinda, and Michael is unable to catch up with him.
•Studios: EMI Films and Universal Pictures
•Director: Michael Cimino
•Music: Stanley Myers
•Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
•Robert De Niro (Michael)
•Christopher Walken (Nick)
•John Savage (Steven)
•George Dzundza (John)
•Chuck Aspegren (Axel)
•Meryl Streep (Linda)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Robert De Niro)
•Supporting actor* (Christopher Walken)
•Supporting actress (Meryl Streep)
•Cinematography
•Direction*
- Pat Bauer
Jul 3, 2016 · July 3, 2016 1:38pm. In all the obits on Michael Cimino, who died Saturday at age 77, most talked about his career trajectory from boom – 1978 Best Picture and Director Oscar winner The Deer...
The Deer Hunter: Directed by Michael Cimino. With Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken. An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
