"announced ""The British are coming"". At the 1981 Cannes Film Festival the film won two awards and competed for the Palme d'Or. American Film Institute recognition Chariots of Fire Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. The film was conceived and produced by David Puttnam, written by Colin Welland, and directed by Hugh Hudson. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson starred as"
"industry, and it won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture; Hudson earned a nomination for Best Director. His friend and colleague Vangelis produced an Academy Award-winning score for the film. Vincent Canby of the ""New York Times"" wrote in 1981 ""It's to the credit of both Mr. Hudson and Mr. Welland that ""Chariots of Fire"" is simultaneously romantic and commonsensical, lyrical and comic. ... It's an exceptional film, about some exceptional people."" In 2017, some 37 years after its showing at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, it was shown to a large audience at the Classic Screenings beach cinema to"
"Chariots of Fire (play) Chariots of Fire is a 2012 stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film of the same name. Production of the Olympic-themed play, which opened at London's Hampstead Theatre 9 May 2012 and transferred to the West End on 23 June 2012, was partially inspired by the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The ""Chariots of Fire"" adaptation for the stage was written by playwright Mike Bartlett, and Edward Hall directed the play. It starred Jack Lowden as Scottish missionary Eric Liddell, and James McArdle as Jewish Cambridge student Harold Abrahams. For the production, stage designer Miriam Buether transformed"
"Chariots of Fire (album) Chariots of Fire is a 1981 musical score by Greek electronic composer Vangelis (credited as Vangelis Papathanassiou) for the British film ""Chariots of Fire"", which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Original Music Score. The album topped ""Billboard"" 200 for 4 weeks, reaching #1. It reached #2 in Canada, #5 in the UK, #5 in Australia, and #6 in New Zealand. The opening theme of the film, called ""Titles"" on the album track listing but widely known as ""Chariots of Fire"", was released as a single; on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 it reached #1"
"David Puttnam David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, (born 25 February 1941) is a British film producer and educator. His productions include ""Chariots of Fire"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician. Puttnam was born in Southgate, London, England, the son of Marie Beatrix, a homemaker of Jewish origin, and Leonard Arthur Puttnam, a photographer. Educated at Minchenden Grammar School in London, Puttnam had an early career in advertising, including five formative years at Collett Dickenson Pearce, and as agent acting for"
"Hugh Hudson Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is an English film director. He was among a generation of British directors who would begin their career making documentaries and television commercials before going on to have success in films. Hudson directed the 1981 Academy Award and BAFTA Award Best Picture ""Chariots of Fire"", a film ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films. Hugh Hudson was born at 27 Welbeck Street, London, the son and only child of Michael Donaldson-Hudson and his second wife Jacynth Mary Ellerton, from Cheswardine in rural north east Shropshire. Michael's"
"Ian Charleson Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film ""Chariots of Fire"". He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film ""Gandhi"". Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in ""Guys and Dolls"", ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", ""Fool for Love"", and ""Hamlet"", among many others. He performed numerous Shakespearean roles, and in"
"Jake Eberts Jake Eberts, OC (July 10, 1941 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such award-winning titles as ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981, uncredited), ""Gandhi"" (1982), ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990), and the successful animated feature ""Chicken Run"" (2000). Eberts was born John David Eberts in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Elizabeth (MacDougall), an interior decorator, and Edmond Eberts, who worked for an aluminum manufacturer. Eberts grew up in Montreal and Arvida. He attended Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec and"
"Heels: The Making of ""Chariots of Fire"""" and """"Chariots of Fire"": A Reunion"" are both also dedicated to his memory. Ian Charleson Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film ""Chariots of Fire"". He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film ""Gandhi"". Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in ""Guys and Dolls"", ""Cat"
"John Briley John Richard Briley (born June 25, 1925) is an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 1982 Oscars for ""Gandhi"". As well as film scripts, he has written for television and theatre, and published several novels. Briley was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and served in the United States Army Air Forces, 1943–46, reaching the rank of captain. At the University of Michigan, he gained a BA in 1950 and an MA in English 1951. He married Dorothy Louise Reichart in 1950, and they had four"
"Hollywood novel based on ""Rack's Rules"", and making notes for his memoirs. Jeremy Larner Jeremy Larner (born March 20, 1937) is an author, poet, journalist and speechwriter. He won an Academy Award in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing ""The Candidate."" Jeremy Larner grew up in Indiana in the 1950s, and had some playground rep as a basketball player in Indianapolis, where he encountered Oscar Robertson and other future stars on the playground courts of that city. Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958 (where he was close to Herbert Marcuse, Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, and a fellow student"
"years during which he achieved his greatest successes. A plaque from the Heritage Foundation was unveiled at his birthplace, Rutland Road in Bedford, on 8 July 2012. This coincided with the Olympic torch relay passing through the town. Abrahams was immortalised in the 1981 film ""Chariots of Fire"", in which he was played by British actor Ben Cross. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His memorial service serves as the framing device for the movie, which tells his story and that of Liddell. Abrahams was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and"
"founders and benefactors. Puttnam is patron of the Irish education charity Camara Education and CFS/ME charity Action for ME. Puttnam greenlit and ""picked up"" a number of films while head of the studio, none of which had been released by the time he left the position. They included: David Puttnam David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, (born 25 February 1941) is a British film producer and educator. His productions include ""Chariots of Fire"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician. Puttnam was"
"The CD length is 58:22 minutes, and includes three tracks previously released on the movie soundtrack, two of which are slightly updated. All other 11 Vangelis tracks are newly composed specifically for the stage play. Chariots of Fire (play) Chariots of Fire is a 2012 stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film of the same name. Production of the Olympic-themed play, which opened at London's Hampstead Theatre 9 May 2012 and transferred to the West End on 23 June 2012, was partially inspired by the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The ""Chariots of Fire"" adaptation for the stage was written by"
"a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including ', ' and """"; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis. In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film ""Chariots of Fire"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack's single, the film's ""Titles"" theme, also reached the"
"1977, was with painter Susan Michie (born 8 December 1946), the daughter of Alastair Milne Michie, with whom he had a son, born in 1978. In November 2003, he married actress Maryam d'Abo, who played Kara Milovy in ""The Living Daylights"" (1987). Hugh Hudson Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is an English film director. He was among a generation of British directors who would begin their career making documentaries and television commercials before going on to have success in films. Hudson directed the 1981 Academy Award and BAFTA Award Best Picture ""Chariots of Fire"", a film ranked 19th in"
"He returned to China in 1925 to serve as a missionary teacher. Aside from two furloughs in Scotland, he remained in China until his death in a Japanese civilian internment camp in 1945. Liddell's Olympic training and racing, and the religious convictions that influenced him, are depicted in the Oscar-winning 1981 film ""Chariots of Fire"", in which he is portrayed by fellow Scot Ian Charleson. Eric Liddell, often called the ""Flying Scotsman"" after the record breaking locomotive, was born 16 January 1902, in Tientsin, China, the second son of the Reverend and Mrs. James Dunlop Liddell, Scottish missionaries with the"
"peace activist Scott Nearing, author Dorothy Frooks, reporter and author George Seldes, civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin, and the American writer Henry Miller, among others. Beatty was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to ""Chariots of Fire"". Beatty, Keaton, Nicholson, and Stapleton were nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. Stapleton was the only one of the four to win. Beatty was also nominated, along with co-writer Trevor Griffiths, for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to ""Chariots of Fire""."
"Hearts of Fire Hearts of Fire is a 1987 American musical drama film starring Bob Dylan, Fiona Flanagan (billed only as ""Fiona"") and Rupert Everett. The film was essentially a vehicle for Dylan based on his success as a rock musician. It received poor reviews, a limited theatrical release and was later written off by Dylan himself. Originally written by Scott Richardson, the screenplay was rewritten by ""Basic Instinct"" writer Joe Eszterhas because Lorimar Productions felt that Richardson was a ""baby writer"" and not experienced enough to take on the responsibility of a starring vehicle for a rock icon of"
"Joe Morton, Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell, Vincent Spano, Kevin Tighe, Josh Mostel, Tom Wright, Gordon Clapp and Angela Bassett. John Sayles John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for ""Passion Fish"" (1992) and ""Lone Star"" (1996). His film ""Men with Guns"" (1997) was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, ""Return of the Secaucus 7"" (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. Sayles was born in Schenectady, New"
"a leading role in the multiple Oscar-winning ""Chariots of Fire"". For their performances in the film, Cross and his co-star Ian Charleson both won ""Most Promising Artiste of 1981"" awards from the Variety Club Awards in February 1982. Cross's starring role in ""Chariots of Fire"" has been credited with continuing a transatlantic trend in elegant young English actors that had been set by Jeremy Irons in ""Brideshead Revisited"", and was followed by Rupert Everett in ""Dance with a Stranger"", Rupert Graves in ""A Room With a View"", and Hugh Grant in ""Maurice"". Cross followed up ""Chariots of Fire"" with performances"
"worlds and sea sailing; and two classical albums about El Greco - ""Foros Timis Ston Greco"" (1995), which had a limited release, and ""El Greco"" (1998), which was an expansion of the former. In 1981, Vangelis wrote the score for the film ""Chariots of Fire"", set at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The choice of music was unorthodox as most period films featured traditional orchestral scores, whereas Vangelis' music was modern and synthesizer-heavy. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Vangelis won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score. The opening theme of the film was released"
"Esta Charkham Esta Malka Charkham (born 29 March 1949) is a British television and film producer and casting director known for the films ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981) and ""Supergirl"" (1984) and the television series ""Robin of Sherwood"" (1984), among others. She is a director of the talent agency Esta Charkham Associates; the Founder and Principal of West London Drama Training, an independent theatre school for young people between the ages of 7 and 18; and a former Director of the National Youth Theatre. Born in London in 1949, the daughter of Montague Charkham (1924–2015) and Regina (née Stockman, 1925–2004), her"
"argues, ""There is a strong case to be made that Robert Towne is the most gifted scribe ever to write for film. There can be little doubt that he is one of the finest ever."" Awards Robert Towne Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz, November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's ""Chinatown"" (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter"
"Ben Cross Harry Bernard Cross (born 16 December 1947), known professionally as Ben Cross, is an English stage and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film ""Chariots of Fire"" and as Sarek in the 2009 reboot film ""Star Trek"". Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross, in London, to a working class Catholic family, with Irish ancestry. His mother was a cleaning woman and his father a doorman and nurse. Cross was educated at Bishop Thomas Grant Secondary Modern School in Streatham, South London. Cross initially worked in various jobs"
"Nigel Havers Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor. He played Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film ""Chariots of Fire"", earning a ""BAFTA"" nomination for the role and Tom Latimer in the British TV comedy series ""Don't Wait Up"". He portrayed the role of Lewis Archer in ""Coronation Street"" from 2009-10. He returned to the role in 2012 and left again in February 2013. He returned again on 1 June 2018. Havers was born in Edmonton, North London, and is the second son of Sir Michael Havers (later Baron Havers), who was a barrister"
"Stallard competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris; he won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres and finished fourth in the 800 metres, despite sustaining a stress fracture in the right foot in the 1500 m heats. He was portrayed by Daniel Gerroll in the 1981 Oscar-winning movie ""Chariots of Fire"". Stallard is the only athlete that won the Amateur Athletic Association of England titles over 440 yd (1925), 880 yd (1924), and mile (1923). He withdrew at the last minute from the 1926 AAA Championships after a copious blood donation to a patient at his hospital."
"was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): ""Hail the Conquering Hero"" and ""The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"". Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for ""Platoon"" and ""Salvador"". Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both ""Operation Petticoat"" and ""Pillow Talk"" and won for the latter. At the 2018 ceremony, ""Get Out"" writer-director Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win in this category. Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees. The following individuals have received multiple Best Original Screenplay Awards: The following individuals received three or"
"write in other languages. Steve Tesich Stojan Steve Tesich (, ""Stojan Stiv Tešić""; September 29, 1942 – July 1, 1996) was a Serbian American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film ""Breaking Away"". Steve Tesich was born as Stojan Tešić (, pronounced ""TESH-ich"") in Užice, in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (now Serbia) on September 29, 1942. He immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister when he was 14 years old. His family settled in East Chicago, Indiana. His father died in 1962. Tesich graduated from Indiana University in"
"Vangelis Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis (; ), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film ""Chariots of Fire"", also composing scores for the films ""Blade Runner"", ""Missing"", ""Antarctica"", ""The Bounty"", """", and ""Alexander"", and the use of his music in the PBS documentary """" by Carl Sagan. Vangelis began his career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album ""666"" going on to be recognized as"
"Schlesinger, and ""Twice in a Lifetime"" (1985), starring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn and Ann-Margret. Welland won the award for Best Original Screenplay for ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981) at the 1982 Academy Awards, and his acceptance speech included the phrase: ""The British are coming!"" (a quotation from Paul Revere). In the film ""Chariots of Fire"", the sign outside the Church of Scotland in Paris shows the preacher for the 9 am worship to be ""C.M. Welland""; he had played a vicar in ""Straw Dogs"" (1971). Following ""Chariots of Fire"", he was again commissioned by David Puttnam to write the screenplay for"
"months of searching for the actor to play the lead of the evangelical Scot Eric Liddell in their upcoming film about the Olympics. They then saw Charleson performing the role of Pierre in ""Piaf"", and knew immediately they had found their man. Unbeknownst to them, Charleson had heard about the film from his father, and desperately wanted to play the part, feeling it would ""fit like a kid glove"". This mutual affinity led to Charleson's best-known film role and success – as the athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981). Charleson prepared for the role by studying"
"Shane Connaughton Shane Connaughton (born 4 April 1941 in Kingscourt County Cavan ) is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for ""My Left Foot"". He also co-wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning 1980 short film ""The Dollar Bottom"" and 1992 film ""The Playboys"", as well as other screenplays and plays. He won the Hennessy Award in 1985. Connaughton is the author of the books ""A Border Station"" (1989), ""The Run of the Country"" (1991), and ""Big Parts"" (2009). He adapted ""The Run of the Country"" for the screen in 1995"