Who won an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of composer Antonio Salieri in the film Amadeus?
"II, accompanied with a live orchestra by the Southbank Sinfonia. The production sold out with rave reviews and returned to the Olivier Theatre at the NT with Msamati and Gillen reprising the roles of Salieri and Mozart from February to 24 April 2018, again with rave reviews. The 1984 film adaptation won an Academy Award for Best Picture. In total, the film won eight Academy Awards. It starred F. Murray Abraham as Salieri (winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance), Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze. The play was thoroughly reworked by Shaffer and the"
"Amadeus (film) Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play ""Amadeus"". The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the film. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri's rivalry with Mozart at the court of Emperor Joseph II. The film was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, which included eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Directors"
"in the gangster film ""Scarface"" (1983). He gained visibility voicing a talking bunch of grapes in a series of television commercials for Fruit of the Loom underwear. Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as envious composer Antonio Salieri in ""Amadeus"" (1984), an award for which Tom Hulce, playing Mozart in that movie, had also been nominated. He won a Golden Globe Award, among other awards, and his role in the film, directed by Miloš Forman, is still his most iconic. (He later continued the classical-music theme by narrating the plot summaries of the operas of"
"America: Directors Guild of America: Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award: American Film Institute: BAFTA: David di Donatello: Nastro d'Argento: César Award: Japan Academy Prize: Amanda Award: Amadeus (film) Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play ""Amadeus"". The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the film. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri's rivalry with Mozart at the court of Emperor Joseph II."
"Guild of America (DGA) award. , it is the most recent film to have more than one nomination in the Academy Award for Best Actor category. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked ""Amadeus"" 53rd on its 100 Years... 100 Movies list. An elderly Antonio Salieri confesses to the murder of his former colleague, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and attempts to kill himself by slitting his throat. Two servants take him to a mental asylum where a priest, Father Vogler, implores him to confess. Salieri recounts how, even in his youth, he desired to be a composer, much to the chagrin"
"Amadeus Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. First performed in 1979, ""Amadeus"" was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called ""Mozart and Salieri"" (which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897). In the play, significant use is made of the music of Mozart, Salieri and other composers of the period. The premieres of Mozart's operas ""The Abduction from the Seraglio"", ""The Marriage of Figaro,"" ""Don Giovanni"", and"
"Tom Hulce Thomas Edward Hulce (; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor, singer and theater producer. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Larry ""Pinto"" Kroger in ""Animal House"" (1978), his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in ""Amadeus"" (1984), and his role as Quasimodo in Disney's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996). Additional acting awards included four Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Hulce retired from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2007, he won a Tony Award as a lead producer"
"composed in his head, citing major and prolonged revisions to several manuscripts (see: Mozart's compositional method). ""Amadeus"" was first presented at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1979, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart, and Felicity Kendal as Constanze. (Callow later appeared in the film version in a different role.) It was later transferred in modified form to the West End, starring Frank Finlay as Salieri. The cast also included Andrew Cruickshank (Rosenberg), Basil Henson (von Strack), Philip Locke (Greybig), John Normington (Joseph II) and Nicholas Selby (van Swieten). The play"
"are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia and it doesn't have to be true. I'm comfortable being among the lists [of openly gay actors] although I stopped acting about 10 years ago."" Theater awards: Film/Television awards See Filmography below Tom Hulce Thomas Edward Hulce (; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor, singer and theater producer. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Larry ""Pinto"" Kroger in ""Animal House"" (1978), his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in ""Amadeus"" (1984), and his role as Quasimodo in Disney's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"""
"Amadeus Mozart and John Philip Sousa). Despite receiving generally positive reviews, the film garnered a lot of controversy during its release, from Tom Clancy disowning the film, to critics complaining it was too different from the book. Nonetheless the film has earned a 73% ""Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 reviews. Roger Ebert called it ""absorbing"" while also commenting how actor Harrison Ford ""once again demonstrates what a solid, convincing actor he is"". Chris Hicks of the ""Deseret News"" mentioned how director Noyce gave the film ""flourish and tension"" while star Harrison Ford injected ""a commanding sense of"
"worker. However, Nello (Giancarlo Giannini)], a pizza cook, interposes in the relationship, seducing Adelaide as well. The situation ensues in a quarrel, after which she is injured and hospitalized. Then, the three of them decide to live together but, eventually, the confused Adelaide leaves them after attempting suicide, to get involved romantically with Ambleto (Hércules Cortés), a butcher. Nonetheless, Nello the cook attempts suicide and the moved Adelaide returns with him. Oreste, who is unemployed now, intervenes again. Adelaide refuses both so another fight ensues, which causes the death of Adelaide. Marcello Mastroianni won the Best Actor award at the"
"and won four, including awards to Forman, Abraham, Shaffer, and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Drama. Jeffrey Jones was nominated for Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Forman also received the Directors Guild of America Award for his work. At the end of the Oscar ceremony, Laurence Olivier came on stage to present the Oscar for Best Picture. As Olivier thanked the Academy for inviting him, he was already opening the envelope. Instead of announcing the nominees, he simply read, ""The winner for this is ""Amadeus""."" An AMPAS official quickly went onstage to confirm"
"story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri who, overcome with jealousy at hearing the ""voice of God"" coming from an ""obscene child"", sets out to destroy his rival. When the show moved to Broadway it won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play and, like ""Equus"", ran for more than a thousand performances. After the success of ""Amadeus"", Shaffer wrote the play ""Lettice and Lovage"" specifically for Dame Maggie Smith in 1986, for which he was nominated for another Tony Award and Dame Maggie Smith eventually won the Tony Award for best actress after three nominations in"
"and steered Austrian high culture towards a more Germanic orientation. He commissioned the German-language opera ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"" from Mozart. The young Ludwig van Beethoven was commissioned to write a funeral cantata for him, but it was not performed because of its technical difficulty. Joseph is prominently featured in Peter Shaffer's play ""Amadeus,"" and the movie based upon it. In the movie, he is played by actor Jeffrey Jones as a well-meaning but somewhat befuddled monarch of limited but enthusiastic musical skill, easily manipulated by Salieri; however, Shaffer has made it clear his play is fiction in many"
"of the most important and sought-after teachers of his generation, and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life. Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven were among the most famous of his pupils. Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868 and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century. This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play ""Amadeus"" (1979) and its 1984 film version. The death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791 at"
"Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film ""Gladiator"", directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and 10 further nominations for best actor. Crowe appeared"
"57th Academy Awards The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Jack Lemmon presided over the ceremonies. The big winner at the ceremony was Miloš Forman's ""Amadeus"", which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. As of the 90th Academy Awards, ""Amadeus"" is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations. The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his"
"him the ninth actor to receive three consecutive Academy Award nominations. He has also received five Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one), three BAFTA Award nominations (winning one), and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations (winning one). Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film ""Gladiator"", directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award"
"by the ASMF from the old Philips label have been reissued on Pentatone. The orchestra has also recorded under the names ""Argo Chamber Orchestra"", ""London String Players"", and ""London Strings"". The soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film ""Amadeus"", a fictional account of the life of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his bitter feud with rival Antonio Salieri, features many of Mozart’s most popular compositions. Recorded by the Academy and Sir Neville Marriner in 1984, the soundtrack to ""Amadeus"" reached #1 in the Billboard Classical Albums Chart, #56 in the Billboard Popular Albums Chart, has sold over 6.5 million copies to"
"Best Actor. In 1972, Alfonso Arau won for his self-directed leading role in ""El Águila Descalza"". Spanish actor Javier Bardem was nominated in 2011 for his performance in ""Biutiful"", for which he was also nominated for the Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, and won the Goya and the Prix d'interprétation masculine at the Cannes Film Festival. Six films have featured two nominated performances for Best Actor, ""De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas"" (Jorge Russek and Juan Ferrara), ""Cuartelazo"" (Héctor Ortega and Bruno Rey), ""Vidas Errantes"" (José Carlos Ruiz and Ignacio Guadalupe), ""Chido Guan, El Tacos de Oro"" (Fernando Arau"
"Deep Blue Sea"", ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", ""The Real Thing"", ""Endgame"", ""God of Carnage"", and ""Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"". His work as an actor includes roles from Shaw to Wilde, from Ibsen to Ayckbourn. He received a Harveys Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance as Salieri in ""Amadeus"" and was nominated for three further performances - Astrov in ""Uncle Vanya"", Higgins in ""Pygmalion"" and Valmont in ""Les Liaisons Dangereuses"". During the Gate Theatre Beckett Festival he performed as Pozzo in ""Waiting for Godot"" and as Hamm in ""Endgame"", performances he repeated to"
"At the 71st Academy Awards, Benigni won Best Actor for his role, with the film winning two more awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Foreign Language Film. Benigni's behaviour at the ceremony was regarded as memorable, as he jumped on top of the seats as he made his way to the stage to accept his first award, and upon accepting his second, said, ""This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English."" The original score to the film was composed by Nicola Piovani, with the exception of a classical piece which figures prominently: the"
"all know the picture drawn by the movie ""Amadeus"". It is false. Salieri did not poison Mozart, but they both worked in Vienna and were competitors... Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna. Of his discovery, Timo Jouko Herrmann has said: The first part is by Salieri and is written in pastoral style. The second part is written by Mozart. It involves a more march-like rhythm—the beginning is reminiscent of his 1782 opera ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail""."
"Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof † 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson ‡ 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass † 2016: Casey Affleck – ""Manchester by the Sea"" as Lee Chandler † 2017: Gary Oldman – ""Darkest Hour"" as Winston Churchill † 2018: Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 2000: Russell Crowe – ""Gladiator"" as Maximus Decimus Meridius †"
"of ""The New Republic"" put it on his list of films worth seeing. In one negative review, Todd McCarthy of ""Variety"" said that despite ""great material and themes to work with, and such top talent involved,"" the ""stature and power the work possessed onstage have been noticeably diminished"" in the film adaptation. In 1985, the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including the double nomination for Best Actor with Hulce and Abraham each being nominated for their portrayals of Mozart and Salieri, respectively. The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Abraham), Best Director (Forman), Costume Design"
"Roy Dotrice Roy Dotrice (26 May 1923 – 16 October 2017) was a British actor who won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of ""A Moon for the Misbegotten"". He appeared in ""Amadeus"" (1984) as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father, Leopold. He also narrated the first five books in George R. R. Martin's fantasy series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"". Dotrice was born in Guernsey on 26 May 1923, to Neva (née Wilton; 1897–1984) and Louis Dotrice (1896–1991). He served as a wireless operator/air gunner with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War,"
"educated Mozart's younger son Franz Xaver Mozart, who was born in the year his father died. Salieri and his music were largely forgotten from the 19th century until the late 20th century. This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play ""Amadeus"" (1979), which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman. His music today has regained some modest popularity via recordings. It is also the subject of increasing academic study, and a small number of his operas have returned to the stage. In addition, there"
"and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, Nino Rota for Best Original Score, Coppola for Best Director, and Best Sound. Upon further review of Rota's love theme from ""The Godfather"", the Academy found that Rota had used a similar score in Eduardo De Filippo's 1958 comedy ""Fortunella"". This led to re-balloting, where members of the music branch chose from six films: ""The Godfather"" and the five films that had been on the shortlist for best original dramatic score but did not get nominated. John Addison's score for ""Sleuth"" won this new vote, and thus replaced Rota's score"
"entertainment news channels such as E! News. These persons are ordinary people becoming celebrities, often based on the ridiculous things they do. ""In fact, many reality show contestants fall into this category: the only thing that qualifies them to be on TV is that they're real."" Certain people are only remembered today because of a movie portrayal, certain story or urban legend surrounding their life and less for their accomplishments. Antonio Salieri was a famous and well-known 18th-century composer, but his fictional portrayal as an antagonist (for example, in the musical and film ""Amadeus"") has been more famous than his"
"himself as ""one who does not believe and who regrets this"". His brother, Francesco Tornatore, is a producer. Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as ""Everybody's Fine"", ""The Legend of 1900"", ""Malèna"", ""Baarìa"" and ""The Best Offer"". Probably his most noted film is ""Nuovo Cinema Paradiso"", for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language"
"months to complete the filming. In 2001, she married actor Kevin Corrigan, whom she met on the set of the independent film ""Broke Even"". They have a daughter, Sadie Rose Corrigan. Elizabeth Berridge (actress) Elizabeth Berridge (born May 2, 1962) is an American film and theatre actress. She is known for playing Constanze Mozart in the Academy Award-winning 1984 film ""Amadeus"", for the role of Officer Eve Eggers on ""The John Larroquette Show"" (1993-1996), and for her performances in the theater. Berridge was born in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter of George Berridge, a lawyer, and Mary L. Berridge"
"life, he was explaining to his assistant how he intended to finish the Requiem. With multiple levels of deception surrounding the Requiem's completion, a natural outcome is the mythologizing which subsequently occurred. One series of myths surrounding the Requiem involves the role Antonio Salieri played in the commissioning and completion of the Requiem (and in Mozart's death generally). While the most recent retelling of this myth is Peter Shaffer's play ""Amadeus"" and the movie made from it, it is important to note that the source of misinformation was actually a 19th-century play by Alexander Pushkin, ""Mozart and Salieri"", which was"
"the David di Donatello for Best Actor for his role in ""The First Beautiful Thing"" in 2010. In 2013, he won both the David di Donatello for Best Actor for his performance in Ivano De Matteo's ""Balancing Act"" and the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Roberto Andò's ""Long Live Freedom"". Valerio Mastandrea Valerio Mastandrea (born 14 February 1972) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Born in Rome, while being a student of philosophy, in the early 1990s Mastandrea enjoyed some success thanks to the semi-regular participation to the Canale 5 late night"