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Academy Award Art Direction 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Best Picture 1985 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 1985 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Sound 1985 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Sound 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 1985 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 1985 · Winner
Amandaprisen Best Foreign Film 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Costume Design 1985 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 1985 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 1985 · Winner
Academy Award Makeup 1985 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1985 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Make-Up Artist 1985 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1985 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Leading Role 1985 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography 1985 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Production Design 1985 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 1985 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 1985 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1985 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Costume Design 1985 · Nominated
Academy Awards, USA. 1985 Winner Oscar. Best Picture. Saul Zaentz. 1985 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. F. Murray Abraham. 1985 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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Amadeus was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, including eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director), and a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film.
It is no wonder why Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with 5-Star performances by F. Murry Abraham as Antonio Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart. Amadeus is an emotionally charged and tragic piece, a story of the life of one of the world's most famous composers, as seen through the eyes of his worst enemy.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Milos Forman
- 1984-09-19
''Amadeus,'' a movie about a mediocre court composer's jealousy of Mozart, won the largest number of Academy Awards tonight.
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- Production notes and credits
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- Academy Award nominations (* denotes win)
Amadeus, American dramatic film, released in 1984, that was a largely fictionalized account of the relationship between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his less talented but popular contemporary Antonio Salieri. The lushly detailed movie won eight Academy Awards, among them that for best picture, and four Golden Globe Awards, including that for best drama.
The movie begins in Vienna in 1823 as an old man, Antonio Salieri (played by F. Murray Abraham), cries out that he has killed Mozart and then attempts suicide. He is taken to an asylum, where Father Vogler (Richard Frank) comes to see him, and Salieri tells him his story. As a young man, Salieri wished to be a composer, like the much younger and already famous Mozart, but his father is opposed. Salieri prays to God, promising to remain celibate and devoted if God will make him a famous composer. Shortly after that, his father dies, freeing him to follow his dream. He is educated in Vienna and becomes the court composer for Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones). One day in 1781, Mozart comes to Vienna to perform at the request of his employer, Archbishop Colloredo (Nicholas Kepros). Salieri attends the performance, which takes place in the Archbishop’s home, and stumbles upon a young man and young woman playing with each other in a childish and lewd fashion. Salieri is horrified to discover that this unworthy man is Mozart (Tom Hulce). Later, when Mozart is introduced at court, Salieri presents him with a musical piece, and Mozart points out its flaws and improvises improvements. Salieri feels that God has blessed an inferior man with exceptional skills and has failed to reward his own devotion.
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After the Emperor commissions an opera from Mozart, Salieri discovers that Mozart has had an affair with its lead actress, Katerina Cavalieri (Christine Ebersole), although he is also involved with Costanze Weber (Elizabeth Berridge). Despite Salieri’s entreaties to God, Mozart remains in Vienna and marries Costanze. The Emperor wishes to hire Mozart to teach music to his niece (which would bring in much-needed money), but Salieri dissuades the Emperor. Costanze, unaware of Salieri’s enmity toward Mozart, seeks his help in changing the Emperor’s mind, and she shows Salieri music written by Mozart to help plead her case. The quality of Mozart’s work causes Salieri to conclude that he has been betrayed by God, and he vows to ruin Mozart.
Mozart’s father, Leopold (Roy Dotrice) chooses this moment to visit his son. Desperate to hide his financial disarray from his father, Mozart takes Leopold to a costume party. Afterward, a young woman named Lorl (Cynthia Nixon) arrives, saying that a benefactor has paid her to be a maidservant to the Mozarts; she is in fact a spy employed by Salieri. Salieri thus learns that Mozart is writing an opera based on the banned play The Marriage of Figaro, but all Salieri’s efforts to sabotage the opera come to naught. After learning of his father’s death in Vienna, Mozart in his grief writes the opera Don Giovanni, and the work inspires Salieri to concoct a scheme. Disguising himself in a costume previously worn by Leopold, Salieri commissions Mozart to write a Requiem. He plans to kill Mozart after the piece is written and then to pass it off as his own. Later, an actor, Emanuel Schikaneder (Simon Callow), commissions an opera from Mozart. Working on both commissions at once destroys Mozart’s health. He completes the opera, Die Zauberflüte (The Magic Flute), but faints during its premiere. Salieri helps Mozart return to his home and then stays with him as he labours to finish the Requiem by the following day. In the morning, Costanze locks up the uncompleted work, and shortly after that Mozart dies, frustrating Salieri’s plot.
•Studios: AMLF and the Saul Zaentz Company
•Director: Miloš Forman
•Writer: Peter Shaffer
•Cinematography: Miroslav Ondříček
•F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salieri)
•Tom Hulce (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
•Elizabeth Berridge (Costanze Weber Mozart)
•Roy Dotrice (Leopold Mozart)
•Picture*
•Lead actor* (F. Murray Abraham)
•Lead actor (Tom Hulce)
•Art direction*
•Cinematography
•Costume design*
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Oct 29, 2010 · Laurence Olivier presenting Saul Zaentz the Oscar® for Best Picture for "Amadeus" at the 57th Academy Awards® in 1985. Introduced by Jack Lemmon.
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- Oscars
Mar 26, 1985 · “Amadeus” dominated the 57th annual Academy Awards ceremonies Monday night, winning eight Oscars, including the best-picture award and a best-actor award for F. Murray Abraham, co-star of...
