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Academy Award Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing) 1982 · Winner
Academy Award Sound 1982 · Winner
Academy Award Film Editing 1982 · Winner
Academy Award Art Direction 1982 · Winner
Academy Award Visual Effects 1982 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Production Design 1981 · Winner
Academy Award Cinematography 1982 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1982 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Picture 1982 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Original Score) 1982 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1982 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 1981 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Artist 1981 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Original Music 1981 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Sound 1981 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 1981 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 1981 · Nominated
Nine Academy Awards
- It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. It won Oscars for art and set direction, sound, film editing, and visual effects, plus a special achievement Oscar for sound effects editing.
Best Edition of an Existing Soundtrack. John Williams. for 'Indiana Jones: The Soundtracks Collection (Concord)'. Shared with: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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At the 1982 Academy Awards, Raiders of the Lost Ark received five awards: [111] Best Art Direction (Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, and Michael D. Ford); Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn); Best Sound (Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, and Roy Charman); Best Sound Editing (Ben Burtt and Richard L. Anderson); and Best Visual Effects ...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, American action-adventure film, released in 1981, that was the first film in the blockbuster Indiana Jones series about a fictional archaeologist who travels to exotic locales throughout the world in search of precious artifacts. It was produced by George Lucas and Howard Kazanjian, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starred...
The film takes place in 1936. Taking its cue from classic action serials, which began each installment at the climax of the previous episode, Raiders of the Lost Ark starts with archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) in South America closing in on the treasured artifact that he has been seeking. He is accompanied by two guides, Satipo (Alfred Molina) and Barranca (Vic Tablian). Treacherous Barranca attempts to shoot Jones, but Jones’s trusty bullwhip disarms him. Jones and Satipo enter an ancient cavernous temple, narrowly avoiding various deadly booby traps until they reach a small golden idol. Jones retrieves the relic from a platform and replaces it with a bag of sand of similar weight, but the idol’s removal triggers more booby traps, and the temple starts to disintegrate. While escaping, Jones surpasses various obstacles, including a gigantic rolling boulder, to emerge from the temple with the coveted artifact. Outside the temple, however, Jones encounters rival archaeologist René Belloq (Paul Freeman), who takes the idol and orders a group of local warriors to attack Jones. Jones escapes to an awaiting airplane, as the film’s theme music resoundingly plays him off, signifying the end of his South American adventure.
Cast and Crew
Cast
•Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones)
•Karen Allen (Marion Ravenwood)
•Paul Freeman (René Belloq)
George Lucas began developing the idea for a film about a character called Indiana Smith in the 1970s. Nervous about the premiere of his new film, Star Wars (1977), Lucas went on vacation to Hawaii and met with his friend Steven Spielberg, who had just finished making Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Lucas explained to Spielberg his vision of a movie that would reimagine the matinee serials and B-pictures Lucas loved as a boy. These movies, many of them produced by Republic Pictures, featured exotic locations and frequent action sequences. Spielberg, who had been interested in making a James Bond-style action film, became excited about Lucas’s idea. Eventually, Spielberg, Lucas, and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan met to discuss the style and plot of the film, and they renamed the main character Indiana Jones.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark was released in the summer of 1981 and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Film critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it “one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made.” Film buffs recognized the movie’s visual nods to several classic films, including Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1942), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Yojimbo (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and several of Zorro flicks. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. It won Oscars for art and set direction, sound, film editing, and visual effects, plus a special achievement Oscar for sound effects editing. In 1999 it was added to the National Film Registry, a film preservation program established by the U.S. Library of Congress that selects films of cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.
Raiders of the Lost Ark 9 NOMINATIONS, 5 WINS * Art Direction - Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Michael Ford
Jun 12, 1981 · Raiders of the Lost Ark: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey. In 1936, archaeologists and adventurers of the U.S. government hired Indiana Jones to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis could obtain its extraordinary powers.
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- Action, Adventure
- Steven Spielberg
- 1981-06-12
Feb 5, 2014 · BEST PICTURE. Atlantic City – Denis Heroux, John Kemeny. Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam. On Golden Pond – Bruce Gilbert. Raiders of the Lost Ark – Frank Marshall. Reds – Warren Beatty.
Writers Guild Awards (WGA) - Movies from 1981 nom. Best Original Comedy Screenplay ( Lawrence Kasdan , George Lucas , Philip Kaufman ) NBR (National Board of Review) - Awards for 1981
