"Dances with Wolves (novel) Dances with Wolves is a 1988 novel written by Michael Blake. It was written as a possible source for a screenplay, and was later adapted by the author, and was produced as a film of the same name in 1990 by Kevin Costner, although there were many differences between the novel and film. The novel is set during the American Civil War. The protagonist of the novel, Lt. John Dunbar, is a white man who ends up in the wilderness and comes to live with a tribe of Comanche, eventually taking on the name Dances with"
"were nominated for the award for the second part as well. Travis won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the American Cinema Editors Eddie for the film ""Dances with Wolves"" (directed by Kevin Costner-1990). Travis had been selected as a member of the American Cinema Editors, and received the Career Achievement Award in 2010. In 2010, Travis was interviewed about his career by Karen Herman for the Archive of American Television. The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis. Neil Travis Herbert Neil Travis (October 12, 1936 – March 28, 2012) was an American film and television"
"Neil Travis Herbert Neil Travis (October 12, 1936 – March 28, 2012) was an American film and television editor with about 28 feature film credits from 1970–2007. He is likely best known for editing the television miniseries ""Roots"" (1977) and the feature film ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990). Travis was born in Los Angeles, California, and received a bachelor's degree in film and theater arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. Travis won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Editing In A Drama Series for the first part of the television miniseries ""Roots"" (1977), and he and James Heckert"
"images in Westerns. The release of ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990) unexpectedly revived the Western genre. Arguably the most influential Native American-themed film of the last few decades, it paid reasonably careful attention to the depiction of Lakota life, traditions and clothing, at least compared to earlier efforts. However, the basic formula of the Hollywood stereotypes – at its heart the idea of the white lead 'going Native', the arrival of the 'White Saviour' – was not transcended, and there were still cultural errors in the film. Thus, the evaluation of scholarly criticism boiled down to granting the film good intentions,"
"Max Beyond Thunderdome"" (1985). Semler was also a cinematographer for the acclaimed Australian miniseries ""Bodyline"" (1984). In the late 1980s, Semler was the cinematographer for several popular films, such as ""Cocktail"" (1988) and ""Young Guns"" (1988). In 1990, Semler was hired as cinematographer for Kevin Costner's ""Dances with Wolves"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Semler lensed the comedy ""City Slickers"" (1991) and the action film ""Last Action Hero"" (1993) in the early 1990s. In 1995, Semler again worked with Costner on his film ""Waterworld"". In the 2000s, Semler was the cinematographer for a range of"
"in the media department. During this time, he did some narration work for Native Counseling Services, ACCESS radio, and the National Film Board. A small part in a CBC Television pilot program called ""John Cat"", based on a W. P. Kinsella book, sparked Herman’s interest in acting, and he decided to leave his position at Native Counseling Services to pursue a career in the performing arts. In April 1989, a Los Angeles casting agent chose him for a part in ""Dances With Wolves"". His role in the film was a Sioux warrior named Stone Calf. He went on to perform"
"Graham Greene (actor) Graham Greene, CM (born June 22, 1952) is a Canadian actor who has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990). Other notable films include ""Thunderheart"" (1992), ""Maverick"" (1994), ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995), ""The Green Mile"" (1999), ""Skins"" (2002), ""Transamerica"" (2005), """" (2009), ""Casino Jack"" (2010), ""Winter's Tale"" (2014), ""The Shack"" (2017) and ""Wind River"" (2017). Greene is an Oneida born in Ohsweken, on the Six"
"him for ""Fandango"", when Costner was a little-known actor. Reynolds later advised Costner behind the scenes for the epic western ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990), in particular with the buffalo hunting scenes, on which Reynolds was also an uncredited second unit director. Costner would again be his leading man in """" (1991), on which Costner was an uncredited second unit director. Costner then produced Reynolds' 1994 film ""Rapa-Nui"". Costner brought on Reynolds to direct the post-apocalyptic film ""Waterworld"" (1995). Mid-way through filming, production problems led to conflict between them. It was reported Reynolds walked away near the end of post-production, leaving"
"win an Academy Award for Best Picture since 1931's ""Cimarron"", ""Dances with Wolves"" won a number of additional awards, making it one of the most honored films of 1990. The Holy Road, a sequel novel by Michael Blake, the author of both the original ""Dances with Wolves"" novel and the movie screenplay, was published in 2001. It picks up eleven years after ""Dances with Wolves"". John Dunbar is still married to Stands with a Fist and they have three children. Stands with a Fist and one of the children are kidnapped by a party of white rangers and Dances with"
"Rodney A. Grant Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as ""Wind In His Hair"" (Lakota: ""Pȟehíŋ Otȟáte"") in the 1990 film ""Dances with Wolves"". Grant, a Native American, was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. After his biological parents abandoned him, his grandparents raised him from six months of age, until 1982. Besides ""Dances with Wolves"", he has also appeared in films such as ""Ghosts of Mars"", ""Wild Wild West"", """", """", ""Wagons East!"", ""The Substitute"", ""War Party"", and ""Powwow Highway"". He portrayed ""Chingachgook"" in the"
"Albert White Hat Albert White Hat (November 18, 1938June 13, 2013) was a teacher of the Lakota language, and an activist for Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta traditional culture. He translated the Lakota language for Hollywood movies, including the 1990 movie ""Dances with Wolves"", and created a modern Lakota orthography and textbook. Albert White Hat was born near St. Francis, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Reservation to a traditional family. ""His grandfather was Chief Hollow Horn Bear."" He spoke only Lakota as a child. He attended day school in Spring Creek, South Dakota. Unlike many of his peers at St. Francis Jesuit Mission"
"but at the same time classifying the movie as a revisionist Western simply replaying the romantic Noble Savage with the white as the hero. ""Dances with Wolves"" was followed by other sympathetic or revisionist Western blockbusters such as ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1992), and """" (1993) and caused mainstream media to put American Indians on their agenda, at least for a short while. One of the few Hollywood movies that portrays Native life outside the Old West and instead sets its story in contemporary times is ""Thunderheart"". In the past two decades, a striving Native American independent cinema has"
"All About Winning"". In 2014 he finished ""50 to 1"", about a misfit group of New Mexico cowboys who find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible odds even before they reach Churchill Downs and the land of Kentucky's blue bloods. Jim Wilson (producer) Jim Wilson is a film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1990 for ""Dances with Wolves"", which he shared with fellow producer Kevin Costner. In 1990,"
"of ""Execution of Justice"", ""The Heidi Chronicles"", and ""Summer and Smoke"". After more than 21 years of theater and television work, McDonnell made her film breakthrough in 1990 as Stands With A Fist, the daughter of American settlers raised by Sioux Indians, in Kevin Costner's ""Dances with Wolves"". Portraying the adopted daughter of Graham Greene's character Kicking Bird, McDonnell, then 37, was only ten months younger than Greene and less than two years younger than Tantoo Cardinal, who played Black Shawl, her adoptive mother. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. McDonnell's role"
"Jimmy Herman Jimmy Herman (October 25, 1940 - September 13, 2013) was an Aboriginal Canadian actor who appeared in several films, including ""Dances with Wolves"" among others. He was born on the Cold Lake Reserve in Alberta, Canada. His descents were Chipewyan and Dene. Herman moved to Edmonton in 1980 to study at Grant MacEwan College's Native Communications Program. There, he received the Malcolm Calliou Award for his ambition to succeed, and to inspire other Aboriginal people to do the same. After his graduation from Grant MacEwan, he accepted employment with Native Counseling Services of Alberta as a media assistant"
"Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Karl Malden, president of the Academy, and actor Denzel Washington. ""Dances with Wolves"" led the nominations with twelve total; ""Dick Tracy"" and ""The Godfather Part III"" tied for second with seven each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 25, 1991. Kevin Costner became the fifth person to earn the Best Director Award for his directorial debut and to earn nominations for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film. Best Supporting Actress winner Whoopi Goldberg was the second African American woman to win an award. Hattie McDaniel"
"Native American film roles began to show more complexity, such as those in ""Little Big Man"" (1970), ""Billy Jack"" (1971), and ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976) which depicted Native Americans in important lead and supporting roles. Regardless, the European narrative perspective was prioritized in popular media. The ""sympathetic"" yet contradictory film ""Dances With Wolves"" (1990) intentionally, according to Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, related the Lakota story through a Euro-American voice for wider impact among a general audience. Like the 1992 remake of ""The Last of the Mohicans"" and """" (1993), ""Dances with Wolves"" employed a number of Native American"
"Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing. The film also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film is credited as a leading influence for the revitalization of the Western genre of filmmaking in Hollywood. In 2007, ""Dances with Wolves"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In 1863, First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar is wounded in battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee. Choosing death in battle over amputation of his leg,"
"Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, where he received an associate of arts degree. Reevis' first movie appearance was with his brother, Tim Reevis, as a stunt rider in the 1987 film ""War Party"". Reevis' first acting role was in 1988 in the Universal Studios film ""Twins"", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Following Twins, he was cast in a nonspeaking role as a Sioux Warrior in the 1990 Kevin Costner film, ""Dances with Wolves"". Reevis was next cast as Chato, an Apache scout, in """" with fellow-Native actor Wes Studi. In 1995, Reevis played Yellow Wolf in ""Last of the"
"Steve Reevis Steve Reevis (August 14, 1962 – December 7, 2017) was a Native American actor and member of the Blackfoot tribe known for his roles in the films ""Fargo"", ""Last of the Dogmen"", and ""Dances with Wolves"". Steve Reevis was born on August 14, 1962 in Browning, Montana to father Lloyd ""Curley"" and mother Lila Reevis. The third oldest of seven children, he had two brothers and four sisters. Reevis grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana. Reevis attended and graduated from Flandreau Indian School in Flandreau, South Dakota. Following high school graduation, he attended Haskell Indian"
"actors was a native speaker of the language. The movie's dialogues in the native language have been lauded as a remarkable achievement. However, other writers have noted that earlier otherwise English-language films, such as ""Eskimo"" (1933), ""Wagon Master"" (1950) and ""The White Dawn"" (1974), had also incorporated Native dialogue. David Sirota of ""Salon"" referred to ""Dances with Wolves"" as a ""white savior"" film, as Dunbar ""fully embeds himself in the Sioux tribe and quickly becomes its primary protector."" He argued that its use of the ""noble savage"" character type ""preemptively blunts criticism of the underlying White Savior story. The idea"
"The Witches (1990 film) The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the 1983 children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl, directed by Nicolas Roeg and stars Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. As in the original novel, the story features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and kill children, and a boy and his grandmother need to find a way to foil and destroy them. ""The Witches"" was produced by Jim Henson Productions for Lorimar Film Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. as the last theatrical film to be"
"a few scenes filmed in Wyoming. Specific locations included the Badlands National Park, the Black Hills, the Sage Creek Wilderness Area, and the Belle Fourche River area. The bison hunt scenes were filmed at the Triple U Buffalo Ranch outside Fort Pierre, South Dakota, as were the Fort Sedgewick scenes, the set being constructed on the property. Defying expectations, ""Dances with Wolves"" proved instantly popular, eventually earning great critical acclaim, making $184 million in U.S. box office and $424 million in total worldwide. , the film holds an approval rating of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 72 reviews, with"
"Tri-Star Pictures. 1990 was just as dismal for Orion as the year prior, with such failures as ""The Hot Spot"" and ""State of Grace"". The only bright spot that year was Kevin Costner's western epic ""Dances with Wolves"". It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and grossed $400 million worldwide. A few months later, Orion garnered another winner with ""The Silence of the Lambs"", but these two films could not make up for years of losses. Only Kluge's continued infusions of cash were enough to keep the company afloat, but soon he had enough. After failing to sell Orion"
"worked with the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. In 1979, she co-founded the National American Indian Performing Arts Registry, which later helped several actors join the production of ""Dances with Wolves"". She shared an Emmy Award as an advisor to PBS's ""Dance in America: Song for Dead Warriors"" (1984). She also worked on the PBS shows ""Remember Me Forever"" and ""The Americas Before Columbus"" (both 1992), and she has produced films on Native American health. In 2009, she gave testimony in the documentary ""Reel Injun"" about Native Americans in film. She continued doing activism and became a"
"and into the secret life of a mother mountain lion as she cares for her newborn kittens. His work includes the National Geographic special, ""A Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond"" and ABC World of Discovery's two highest rated films: ""Cougar: Ghost of the Rockies"" (1990) and ""Wolf: Return of a Legend"" (1993), winner of a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Informational or cultural programming. ""Wolves at Our Door"" (1998) was nominated for three Emmy awards and ""Living with Wolves"" (2005) received a single nomination. In 2006, the Dutchers founded the non-profit organization ""Living with Wolves."" Dedicated to educational outreach, they"
"debut was in 1983 in ""Running Brave"". He appeared in such films as ""Revolution"" and ""Powwow Highway"", as well as the First Nations' CBC TV series ""Spirit Bay"". It was his Academy Award–nominated role as Kicking Bird (Lakota: ""Ziŋtká Nagwáka"") in the 1990 film ""Dances with Wolves"" that brought him fame. He followed this role with films and performances on TV series, including ""Thunderheart"", ""Benefit of the Doubt"", and ""Maverick"", and the television series ""Northern Exposure"" and ""The Red Green Show"". Greene also acted alongside Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in the 1995 film ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"","
"many leading British film directors including Peter Greenaway , John Boorman, Neil Jordan 1984 film-maker Neil Jordan worked for several weeks in pre-production with artist filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson to create hundreds of detailed storyboard drawings for the feature ""The Company of Wolves"". The film's visuals were of particular importance, as Jordan explains: ""The visual design was an integral part of the script. It was written and imagined with a heightened sense of reality in mind."" Bruce's 1985 short horror/drama ""Wings of Death (BFI)"" which she co-directed with Mike Coulson, featuring Dexter Fletcher and Kate Hardie, explored addiction."
"Michael Blake (author) Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel ""Dances with Wolves"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early in his life, Blake's family lived in Texas, before moving to Southern California, where they moved frequently. He began writing when he was stationed at Walker Air Force Base, when he wrote for the base newspaper. He studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, and later studied at a film school, in Berkeley, California. He also attended Eastern"
"6 communities. 2005 Supernatural (Television) Episode ""Bugs"" Season 1, Episode 8 Joe Whitetree Jimmy Herman Jimmy Herman (October 25, 1940 - September 13, 2013) was an Aboriginal Canadian actor who appeared in several films, including ""Dances with Wolves"" among others. He was born on the Cold Lake Reserve in Alberta, Canada. His descents were Chipewyan and Dene. Herman moved to Edmonton in 1980 to study at Grant MacEwan College's Native Communications Program. There, he received the Malcolm Calliou Award for his ambition to succeed, and to inspire other Aboriginal people to do the same. After his graduation from Grant MacEwan,"
"an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""A grand, sweeping epic with inarguably noble intentions and arresting cinematography, but one whose center, arguably, is not as weighty as it should be."" Metacritic gave the film a score of 72 out of 100 based on 20 critical reviews, indicating ""generally favorable reviews"". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare ""A+"" grade. Because of the film's popularity and lasting impact on the image of Native Americans, the Sioux Nation adopted Costner as an honorary member. At the 63rd Academy Awards ceremony in 1991, ""Dances with Wolves"" earned"
"John Barry's work for ""Dances with Wolves"". The soundtrack album was issued on Milan Records (and licensed to Varèse Sarabande for North American release); it was subsequently reissued in 1995 with two extra tracks, and later as part of Milan's ""Silver Screen Edition"" series with the extra tracks and an interview with Maurice Jarre. The film became an unexpected huge box-office success, grossing $505,702,588 on a budget of $22,000,000. It was the highest-grossing film of 1990. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 51.46 million tickets in the US. ""Ghost"" has received generally favorable reviews and has a"
"son, Daniel, from his first marriage. Studi and his wife perform in the band, Firecat of Discord. Studi serves as honorary chair of the national endowment campaign of the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe. Studi endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Wes Studi Wesley Studi () (born December 17, 1947) is a Cherokee actor and film producer from Nofire Hollow in Oklahoma. He has won critical acclaim and awards for his portrayal of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990) and ""The Last"