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2024 Winner Saturn Award. Best Film Home Media Collection Release. Superman 1978-1987 4K Ultra HD 5-Film Collection. Shared with: Superman II · Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut · Superman III · Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. 2012 Nominee Saturn Award.
Superman was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Film Editing (Stuart Baird), Best Original Score (John Williams) and Best Sound (Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier and Roy Charman) and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects.
- $300.5 million
- John Williams
- $55 million
- Pierre Spengler
Dec 15, 1978 · Superman: Directed by Richard Donner. With Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty. An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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- 1978-12-15
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Jan 20, 2024 · Home. Superman. DC Had The Very First Oscar-Nominated Superhero Movie 46 Years Ago. By David Miller. Published Jan 20, 2024. Though DC movies have suffered from uneven reception as of late, the brand earned the first-ever superhero movie Oscar nomination and win. Summary.
- 10 Super Great: The Perfect Three-Act Structure of An Origin
- 9 Super Lame: Superman Doesn't Have Anything to Hit
- 8 Super Great: It Nailed The Costume
- 7 Super Lame: That Poem is... Rough
- 6 Super Great: Donner's Demand For Verisimilitude Informs Every Choice
- 5 Super Lame: Otis Is Too Goofy
- 4 Super Great: It Makes Us Believe A Man Can Fly
- 3 Super Lame: Jimmy Olsen Gets Shoved in at The End
- 2 Super Great: Reeves Is Still The Gold Standard of Casting
- 1 Super Lame: Superman Doesn't Learn His Lesson
While the script is credited to Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, and Robert Benton, Richard Donner's friend and collaborator Tom Mankiewicz wrote the final draft of the story and is often credited for taking a campy movie and making it into the classic that we all know and love. The story follows a simple three-act structure, but breaks tho...
As wonderful as Superman is, and while Gene Hackman makes for a wonderful Lex Luthor, one missing piece in the movie is that Supermannever faces off against anything or anyone as powerful as himself, which means he never gets to hit anything. RELATED: 10 Superhero Movie Actors Who Should've Played Different Characters The movie certainly shows off ...
While there are decades of costume designs from the comics, sometimes Hollywood feels the need to change the look of a superhero, and the next thing you know, the X-Men are all wearing black leather or Flashis wearing a suit of armor that doesn't look comfortable or aerodynamic. Luckily, Kal-El looks exactly like himself in Superman. And so does Cl...
The relationship between Superman and Lois Lane is perfectly handled in the movie. Played by Margot Kidder, anyone watching Supermanwon't question the reporter's bona fide as she interviews the Last Son of Krypton on her patio, or when she goes out looking for a story that could well cost her her life. But there is one moment when Superman takes Lo...
During the making of Superman, director Richard Donner had one word he would always go back to when making a decision: verisimilitude. The word, which means giving something the appearance of being true or real, was how Donner believed the whole movie had to work. The world of Superman needed to be so real that the audience wouldn't have any troubl...
There is one character that could have broken Donner's call for verisimilitude, but instead just rides that line: Otis, played by Ned Beatty. Otis is Lex Luthor's right-hand man, but he's also played for laughs in just about every scene. Otis is so incapable of doing anything right that it can be hard to understand why Lex keeps him around until vi...
These days, it's easy for a big-budget movie to make someone fly across a city, but in 1978 it still took a whole lot of work. Richard Donner knew that if they couldn't make Superman's flying look real, then there was no way the movie would work. A special screen was created by 3M for flying scenes that depended on front projection work. Today that...
The original plan when filming Superman was to film Superman II at the same time, but budget problems, deadlines, and problems between Richard Donner and producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind forced the plan to be abandoned. With the decision to hold off on completing Superman II until after Supermanwas released, Donner and Tom Mankiewicz were force...
While other actors have done a great job of playing Superman, none of them have felt like they came right off the four-color page like Christopher Reeve does. Reeve is really playing two characters in all four of his Superman films, with his Clark Kent being so vastly different from his Superman that a viewer can really understand why Lois Lane doe...
Another issue with the decision to change the ending of Supermanat the last minute is that Superman seems to not have learned anything. Earlier in the movie, Superman is told by Jor-El that the one thing he can never do is change the course of human events, even the deaths of the people he loves. Superman already knows the pain of losing a loved on...
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Apr 9, 2021 · Among them was the win for Best Makeup, which went to Giorgio Gregorini, Alessandro Bertolazzi, and Christopher Allen Nelson for their work on Suicide Squad, the surprise blockbuster film that was the latest installment in the DC Comics cinematic universe.
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world. Mario Puzo. Screenplay, Story. Joe Shuster.
