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Academy Award Sound 1986 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Cinematography 1986 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 1986 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 1986 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Sound 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Art Direction 1986 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Music (Original Score) 1986 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Best Picture 1986 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actress in a Leading Role 1986 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Score 1986 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Costume Design 1986 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1986 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1986 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama 1986 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1986 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Leading Role 1986 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 · Nominated
Academy Award Costume Design 1986 · Nominated
A list of awards and nominations for the film Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.
- Overview
- Production notes and credits
- Cast
- Academy Award nominations (* denotes win)
Out of Africa, American-British film, released in 1985, that was based on events in the life of Karen Blixen-Finecke, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. It starred Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and was known for its beautiful cinematography. The movie won seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture.
The events of the movie take place between 1913 and 1931. It begins in Denmark, where Karen (played by Streep) proposes a marriage of convenience to her friend (and cousin) Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Planning to run a dairy farm in Africa, they travel to British East Africa and subsequently marry. The couple later goes to the farm, which is near Nairobi, and Bror informs her that he has decided to operate a coffee farm. More interested in hunting, he largely leaves Karen to manage the venture on her own. As she explores the area, she comes face-to-face with a lioness, but the big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Redford) and his friend Berkeley (Michael Kitchen) arrive in time to save her. Later, on the farm, she attends to the medical needs of the Kikuyu people who live in the area.
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World War I breaks out, and Bror is sent to the front. When an army messenger tells Karen that she is to send supplies to the front, she decides to bring the items herself. She encounters Denys and Berkeley on her journey, and Denys gives her a compass. She braves many hazards but succeeds in getting the supply train to the front, where she reunites with Bror. Upon her return to the farm, however, Karen discovers that she has contracted syphilis from the philandering Bror. After receiving treatment in Denmark, Karen returns to the farm and ends her relationship with Bror. During this time she also builds a school for the Kikuyu. One day Denys takes her on a safari, during which they begin a romance, and he eventually moves into Karen’s home. All is not idyllic, however, as Berkeley dies from a form of malaria, and Karen struggles to keep the coffee farm financially afloat. Denys’s inability to fully commit to Karen leads her to break off the relationship. Shortly thereafter, her barn burns down, and Karen decides to return to Denmark. She sells off her possessions and begs the colonial authority to allow the Kikuyu workers to continue to live on the farm. She and Denys have a final dinner together, but Denys later crashes his biplane and is killed. Before leaving for home, Karen gives Denys’s compass to her foreman, Farah (Malick Bowens).
Most of Out of Africa was shot on location in Kenya, near the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi. Orson Welles, David Lean, and Nicolas Roeg considered turning Dinesen’s book Out of Africa (1937) into a film before director Sydney Pollack succeeded, using a screenplay by Karl Luedtke that drew on more recent biographies of both Dinesen and Finch Hatton as well as on Dinesen’s writings.
•Studios: Mirage Enterprises and Universal Pictures
•Director: Sydney Pollack
•Writer: Karl Luedtke (screenplay)
•Music: John Barry
•Meryl Streep (Karen Blixen)
•Klaus Maria Brandauer (Bror Blixen)
•Robert Redford (Denys Finch Hatton)
•Michael Kitchen (Berkeley)
•Picture*
•Lead actress (Meryl Streep)
•Supporting actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer)
•Art direction*
•Cinematography*
•Costume design
- Pat Bauer
Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
- Karen Blixen
- 1937
Original Score winner for Out of Africa, with presenters Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa and John Huston.
Dec 20, 1985 · Out of Africa: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen. In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1985-12-20
Out of Africa producer Sydney Pollack wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 58th Annual Academy Awards. Introduced by Robin Williams, Alan Alda, and Jane Fo...
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- 151K
- Oscars
Aug 11, 2014 · David Watkin wins the Oscar for Cinematography for Out of Africa at the 58th Academy Awards. Jon Cryer presents the award; hosted by Robin Williams. See more...
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- 14.7K
- Oscars
