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Academy Award Special Effects 1962 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 1962 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 1962 · Winner
Academy Award Best Motion Picture 1962 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1962 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound 1962 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1962 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1962 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1962 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts British Screenplay 1962 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1962 · Nominated
- Supported by an all-star cast and produced on a grand scale, the film was an enormous success, receiving seven 1961 Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and winning for Best Special Effects.
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Awards The Guns of Navarone Jump to Academy Awards, USA (7) BAFTA Awards (1) Directors Guild of America, USA (1) Golden Globes, USA (3) Grammy Awards (1) Laurel Awards (2) International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA) (1)
Box office. Critics. Awards and honours. Sequel. In popular culture. References. External links. The Guns of Navarone (film) The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean 's 1957 novel of the same name. Foreman also produced the film.
- $28.9 million
- Carl Foreman
- $6 million
- Dimitri Tiomkin
Feb 5, 2014 · 34th Academy Awards (1961): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Fanny – Joshua Logan. The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman. The Hustler – Robert Rossen. Judgment at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer. West Side Story – Robert Wise. DIRECTING. The Guns of Navarone – J. Lee Thompson. The Hustler – Robert Rossen.
With Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker. A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- (54K)
- J. Lee Thompson
- Not Rated
- Action, Adventure, Drama
The Guns of Navarone 7 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN * Special Effects - Visual Effects by Bill Warrington; Audible Effects by Vivian C. Greenham
19th Golden Globes Awards (1962) - Movies from 1961. winner Best Picture - Drama; nom. Best Director (J. Lee Thompson) winner Best Original Score (Dimitri Tiomkin) BAFTA 1962: British Academy Film Awards (Movies from 1961) nom. Best British Screenplay (Carl Foreman) Directors Guild of America (DGA) - 1961 Productions
Awards. Releases. Related. Share on. facebook. twitter. Synopsis by Hal Erickson. The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission.