"psychological damage caused by such horrors. Christopher Walken and director Michael Cimino earned Oscars for their work on the film, which earned a Best Picture Academy Award. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep were also nominated for their work in ""The Deer Hunter"". ""Apocalypse Now"" won for cinematography and sound, and earned nominations for Robert Duvall and Coppola. Hal Ashby's ""Coming Home"" portrayed life for Vietnam veterans. Actor Jon Voight won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 1979 saw the poignant ""Kramer vs. Kramer"", the inspiring ""Norma Rae"", and the nuclear thriller, ""The China Syndrome"". ""Alien"" scared"
"One of the first major films based on the Vietnam War was John Wayne's pro-war film, ""The Green Berets"" (1968). Further cinematic representations were released during the 1970s and 1980s, including Michael Cimino's ""The Deer Hunter"" (1978), Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979), Oliver Stone's ""Platoon"" (1986) – based on his service in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987), ""Hamburger Hill"" (1987), ""Born on the Fourth of July"" (1989), and ""Casualties of War"" (1989). Later films would include ""We Were Soldiers"" (2002) and ""Rescue Dawn"" (2007). The war also influenced a generation of"
"While notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production, the film is widely acclaimed for its vivid depiction of the Vietnam War. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards. While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s. His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas ""The Outsiders"" and ""Rumble Fish"" (both 1983), the crime-drama ""The Cotton Club"""
"addition, the film industry was in crisis, and the army did not wish to assist in making anti-war films. From the late 1970s, independently financed and produced films showed Hollywood that Vietnam could be treated in film. Successful but very different portrayals of the war in which America had been defeated included Michael Cimino's ""The Deer Hunter"" (1978), and Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979). With the shift in American politics to the right in the 1980s, military success could again be shown in films such as Oliver Stone's ""Platoon"" (1986), Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987) and John Irvin's"
"Good Guys Wear Black Good Guys Wear Black is a 1978 American action film starring Chuck Norris and directed by Ted Post. This was the second film to feature Norris as the star. The film featured a first screen appearance by Norris' brother Aaron Norris and final appearances by Lloyd Haynes, Dana Andrews and Jim Backus. Back in 1973, one United States Senator Conrad Morgan (James Franciscus), the chief delegate diplomat in negotiating the terms of the end of Vietnam War, made a deal in Paris, France with Kuong Yen, the North Vietnamese negotiator. The deal called for Yen to"
"order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. Sammy Davis Jr. and Marvin Hamlisch performed ""Come Light the Candles"" in tribute to: 50th Academy Awards The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time. Two of the year's biggest winners were ""Star Wars"", which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement"
"1978 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 13th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1979, honored the best filmmaking of 1978. 1. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)<br> 2. ""The Deer Hunter""<br> 2. ""An Unmarried Woman""<br> 4. ""Days of Heaven"" 1. Terrence Malick – ""Days of Heaven""<br> 2. Bertrand Blier – ""Get Out Your Handkerchiefs"" (""Préparez vos mouchoirs"")<br> 3. Michael Cimino – ""The Deer Hunter"" 1. Gary Busey – ""The Buddy Holly Story""<br> 2. Jon Voight – ""Coming Home""<br> 3. Nick Nolte – ""Who'll Stop the Rain""<br> 4. Michael Caine – ""California Suite""<br> 5."
"Vietnam vet (Bruce Dern), who plan to blow up the Goodyear blimp over the Super Bowl. It was shot on location at the actual ""Super Bowl X"" in January 1976 in Miami, with the use of a real Goodyear Blimp. The film tested very highly, and Paramount and Frankenheimer had high expectations for it but it was not a hit. Frankenheimer is quoted in Champlin's biography as saying that his alcohol problem caused him to do work that was below his own standards on ""Prophecy"" (1979), an ecological monster movie about a mutant grizzly bear terrorizing a forest in Maine."
"Philippines and said, ""We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane"", and ""My film is not about Vietnam, it ""is"" Vietnam"". The filmmaker upset newspaper critic Rex Reed who reportedly stormed out of the conference. ""Apocalypse Now"" won the Palme d'Or for best film along with Volker Schlöndorff's ""The Tin Drum"" – a decision that was reportedly greeted with ""some boos and jeers from the audience"". ""Apocalypse Now"" performed well at the box office when it opened in August 1979. The film initially opened in one theater in New York City,"
"with a wife and child like Ba Do, but because of the war they had to be pulled from their families and put into Vietnam to fight. The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone () is a 1979 Vietnamese drama film directed by . It won the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. The film gives an ""unnerving and compelling .. subjective-camera-eye-view"" of life under helicopter fire in a free-fire zone in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. The film cuts to an (American) ""helicopter-eye view"", contrasting"
"and ""Welcome Home, Soldier Boys"" (1972) in which returning vets are met with incomprehension and violence. In many films, like ""Gordon's War"" (1973) and ""Rolling Thunder"" (1977), the veteran uses his combat skills developed in Vietnam to wage war on evil-doers in America. This is also the theme of ""Taxi Driver"" (1976) in which Robert De Niro plays Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle who wages a one-man war against society whilst he makes plans to assassinate a presidential candidate. Apparently this film inspired John W. Hinckley to make a similar attempt against President Ronald Reagan. In a similar vein is ""First"
"such films as ""The Best Years of Our Lives"" (1946) and ""The Men"" (1950). However, films featuring Vietnam veterans constitute a much larger genre. The first appearance of a Vietnam veteran in film seems to be ""The Born Losers"" (1967) featuring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack. Bleaker in tone are such films as ""Hi, Mom!"" (1970) in which vet Robert De Niro films pornographic home movies before deciding to become an urban guerrilla, ""The Strangers in 7A"" where a team of former paratroopers blow up a bank and threaten to blow up a residential apartment building, ""The Hard Ride"" (1971)"
"law and order avengers like ""Dirty Harry"" (1971) and ""RoboCop"" (1987). In the 1970s, films portrayed fictitious and exaggerated characters, madmen ostensibly produced by the Vietnam War in films like ""Taxi Driver"" (1976) and ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979), while other films told stories of fictitious veterans who were supposedly victims of the war and in need of rehabilitation (""Coming Home"" and ""The Deer Hunter"", both 1978). Many action films continue to celebrate the gun toting hero in fantastical settings. At the same time, the negative role of the gun in fictionalized modern urban violence has been explored in films like ""Boyz"
"50th Academy Awards The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time. Two of the year's biggest winners were ""Star Wars"", which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing, and ""Annie Hall"", winning 4 out of 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. The awards show was also notable for a very politically charged acceptance speech"
"starring film role in ""Popeye"" (1980), Williams starred in numerous films that achieved critical and financial success, including ""Good Morning, Vietnam"" (1987), ""Dead Poets Society"" (1989), ""Aladdin"" (1992), ""The Birdcage"" (1996), and ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997). He also starred in widely acclaimed films, such as ""The World According to Garp"" (1982), ""Moscow on the Hudson"" (1984), ""Awakenings"" (1990), ""The Fisher King"" (1991), ""One Hour Photo"" (2002), and ""World's Greatest Dad"" (2009), as well as box office hits, such as ""Hook"" (1991), ""Mrs. Doubtfire"" (1993), ""Jumanji"" (1995), and the ""Night at the Museum"" trilogy (2006–2014). Williams was nominated four times for"
"the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound and Best Film Editing. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed ""Platoon"" at #83 in their ""AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies"" poll. In 1967, U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to an infantry platoon of the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border. The platoon is officially led by the young and inexperienced Lieutenant Wolfe, but in reality the soldiers defer to two of his older and more experienced subordinates: the hardened and"
"""Get Out Your Handkerchiefs"" (""Préparez vos mouchoirs"")<br> 3. Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller – ""Movie Movie""<br> 4. W. D. Richter – ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers""<br> 5. Woody Allen – ""Interiors"" 1978 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 13th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1979, honored the best filmmaking of 1978. 1. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)<br> 2. ""The Deer Hunter""<br> 2. ""An Unmarried Woman""<br> 4. ""Days of Heaven"" 1. Terrence Malick – ""Days of Heaven""<br> 2. Bertrand Blier – ""Get Out Your Handkerchiefs"" (""Préparez vos mouchoirs"")<br> 3. Michael Cimino – ""The"
"Good Morning, Vietnam Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy-drama war film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his ""irreverent tendency"". The story is loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer. Most of Williams' performances that portrayed Cronauer's radio broadcasts were improvisations. The film was a critical and commercial success; for his work in"
"movies about Vietnam. This is the one that completes the story."" Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié in 1987. Using real letters written by American soldiers (which can be read in the book along with many more) and archive footage, the film creates a highly personal experience of the Vietnam War. The film won the Special Jury Prize: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988. It was also screened out of competition at the 1988"
"Award for Best Picture and ""Born on the Fourth of July"". Stone won the Academy Award for Directing for both films. Both films were told from the perspective of Americans. ""Platoon"" was based on Oliver Stone's own experience in Vietnam and ""Born on the Fourth of July"" was based on the experiences of veteran Ron Kovic. After ""Platoon"", Hayslip would stand outside movie theaters in San Diego, where she lived at the time, and hand out fliers. ""I am not against the movie,"" Hayslip said, ""But I want them to know that 3 million of my people died in that"
"The project was eventually scrapped, due to disagreements between Williams, Levinson, and The Walt Disney Company, over the film's direction. Good Morning, Vietnam Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy-drama war film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his ""irreverent tendency"". The story is loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer. Most of Williams'"
"""Boy from Vietnam"" (1978), which is the start of her ""Vietnam trilogy."" After a few years in the television industry, Hui finally directed her first feature-length film, ""The Secret"" (1979), which earned Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film. In the 1980s, Hui’s career was growing on the international cinema circuit. The most popular films for that time were Eastern variations of Hollywood oriented gangster and action films. But Hui did not follow the trend and preferred to create more personal films. Many of her best films involved themes pertaining to cultural displacement. In particular, her central characters are often"
"1979 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 14th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1980, honored the best filmmaking of 1979. 1. Breaking Away<br> 2. ""Kramer vs. Kramer""<br> 3. ""Manhattan""<br> 4. ""10"" 1. Woody Allen – ""Manhattan""<br> 1. Robert Benton – ""Kramer vs. Kramer""<br> 3. Peter Yates – ""Breaking Away""<br> 4. Blake Edwards – ""10"" 1. Dustin Hoffman – ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" and ""Agatha""<br> 2. Peter Sellers – ""Being There""<br> 3. Nick Nolte – ""North Dallas Forty""<br> 4. Jack Lemmon – ""The China Syndrome""<br> 5. Klaus Kinski – ""Nosferatu the Vampyre"" (""Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht"")"
"and Die"", ""The Enemy Below"", ""Ill Met by Moonlight"", ""Men in War"", ""The One That Got Away"" and ""Seven Thunders"", and the highly successful, critically acclaimed pictures ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year, and ""Paths of Glory"" were released. Some, such as ""Bitter Victory"", focused more on the psychological battle between officers and egotism rather than events during the war. ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" brought a new complexity to the war picture, with a sense of moral uncertainty surrounding war. By the end of the decade the """
"the 78th Division in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensive in World War I. ""Iraq War"" Gardens of Stone is a 1987 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Proffitt. It stars James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones and D. B. Sweeney. The movie is set in 1968 and 1969, attempts to examine the meaning of the Vietnam War entirely through the eyes of the members of the <nowiki>""</nowiki>Old Guard,<nowiki>""</nowiki> the stateside-based elite Army unit whose duties include Presidential escorts and military funerals at Arlington. 3rd U.S. Infantry"
"25 points for Best Screenplay. The Best Film honour was considered a surprise, with ""People"" objecting the award was ""downright incomprehensible."" Get Out Your Handkerchiefs Get Out Your Handkerchiefs () is a 1978 French romantic comedy film directed by Bertrand Blier and starring Carole Laure, Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Riton Liebman. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards. The film tells the story of a ménage à trois in which two men share a woman to cure her of an unexplained depression, with many symptoms. Eventually, she begins an affair"
"with one of his fellow students, Jacques ten Brinck, who also survived the war. The film won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. One year later, in 1980, it received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, but the French-Italian film ""La Cage aux Folles"" won the award. In the vote for best Dutch film of the twentieth century at the Netherlands Film Festival in 1999 ""Soldier of Orange"" won second place behind ""Turkish Delight"", another Paul Verhoeven film. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"award at the festival were ""Chuyện vợ chồng anh Lực"", ""Chị Tư Hậu"", ""Hai người lính"", ""Đường về quê mẹ"". The Golden Lotus was also granted for seven documentary films. From the 5th Vietnam Film Festival in 1980, a new Golden Lotus was awarded for the best film in animated category, and a fourth prize was established at the 13th Vietnam Film Festival (2001) to award the best film of direct-to-video category. Golden Lotus Awards (Vietnam Film Festival) The Golden Lotus (Vietnamese: Bông sen vàng) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Vietnam Film Festival. It was"
"Mikis Theodorakis 1970: ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" – Burt Bacharach § 1971: ""Summer of '42"" – Michel Legrand † 1972: ""The Godfather"" – Nino Rota 1973: ""O Lucky Man!"" – Alan Price 1974: ""Murder on the Orient Express"" – Richard Rodney Bennett ‡ 1975: ""Jaws"" † and ""The Towering Inferno"" ‡ – John Williams 1976: ""Taxi Driver"" – Bernard Herrmann ‡ 1977: ""A Bridge Too Far"" – John Addison 1978: ""Star Wars"" – John Williams § 1979: ""Days of Heaven"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1980: ""The Empire Strikes Back"" – John Williams ‡ 1981: ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"""
"""Coming Home"", Sidney Furie's ""The Boys in Company C"", and Ted Post's ""Go Tell the Spartans"", it was the first film about Vietnam to reach a wide audience and critical acclaim, culminating in the winning of the Oscar for Best Picture. Other films released in later decades that illustrated the 'hellish', futile conditions of bloody Vietnam War combat included: David Thomson wrote in an article titled """"The Deer Hunter"": Story of a scene"" that the film changed the way war-time battles were portrayed on film: ""The terror and the blast of firepower changed the war film, even if it only"
"Vietnam (miniseries) Vietnam is a (1987) Australian TV mini-series, directed by Chris Noonan and John Duigan. It stars Barry Otto, Nicole Kidman and Nicholas Eadie. The series won the Logie Award for Most Popular Single Telemovie or Miniseries. Set in the 1960s through to the early 1970s, ""Vietnam"" is a mini-series about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war. The Goddard family live in Canberra - Public servant Douglas, Evelyn (Veronica Lang) and their son Phil and daughter Megan. Aged 15, Megan is now a rebellious teenager, infuriating her conservative parents whilst her older sibling Phil is a budding photographer. Australia"
"time, having previously been a co-host of the 48th ceremony held in 1976. Meanwhile, this was Chase and Hogan's first Oscars hosting stint. Eight days earlier, in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 22, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Catherine Hicks. ""Platoon"" won four awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" and ""A Room with a View"" with three awards, ""Aliens"" with two awards, and """", ""The Assault"", ""Children of a Lesser God"", ""The Color of Money"", ""Down and Out in America"", ""The Fly"","