Academy Award for Writing (Original Screenplay)

It was nominated or won for Best...

Original Screenplay.

Editing and Screenplay, yes.

It won.

Yes,

in his entire career, it's his only Oscar nomination.

So, yeah, Best Picture, Director for Peter Weir, Actor for Harrison Ford, Original Screenplay, which it won, Art Direction, Cinematography for John Seale, Editing, which it also won, and it's Score.

Those were the... all the nominations for oscars for that year so um to what you were talking about gdl is yes peter weir is known for show don't tell and famously with witness the end of the movie When right before John Book is sort of about to leave, there was there was pages of dialogue.

the first time I'd watched it critically at all, and I was just like, this fucking script is so good.

Yeah, I was gonna say, this won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and it deserved it.

Like, I can't imagine any other script that year, and I'll look it up when we get to it.

But yeah, it sounds like we would all recommend this, right? Yeah.

It had one win with 20 other nominations.

Over at the Oscars, it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Shakespeare in Love.

The Golden Globes, it was nominated for Best Motion Picture, Comedy, or Musical, but lost to Shakespeare in Love.

Same thing with Best Screenplay, losing to that film.

no no it's a great one a couple oscars i was thinking hold on it came in 97 uh yeah no you um it's a really great movie but i do recommend you see it though if you can uh If you can, it was on a game out in December of 97.

And it was, did it really? It won Best Original Screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Robin Williams won an Oscar for Supporting Actor.

at the 70th Academy Awards.

And when it came to the Academy Awards for that particular season, it ended up winning for Best Picture.

Best Director, Best Actor Colin Firth, and Best Original Screenplay.

It also ended up getting nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush, Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design.

And as it is the 4th of September, we are going to be watching Stand By Me from 1986, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton.

persona it's just and it's unlike movies that you rarely see you're not given the chance to see these characters evolve and be actual real people it's just again it's a pleasure to watch every single time that i see it so it's on september 6th 1936 in juliet louisiana In Juliet, Illinois, where Donnie Hooker and his partner Luther, played by Robert Earl Jones, actually managed to con $11,000 off of a guy.

And that happens within the first minute of this two-hour and nine-minute movie.

And when it came to the Academy Awards for that particular season, it actually ended up winning for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Music.

It actually ended up getting nominations for Best Actor for Robert Redford, Best Cinematography and Best Sound.

Still, that is such a banger of a movie, written by the equally impressive Nora Ephron.

Ephron was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and the film was nominated for five Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture Director for Reiner and Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Honestly, it'd be rather hard to overstate the impact When Harry Met Sally had on romantic comedy.

It has become the standard-bearer for the genre and is still seen as the best rom-com of all time.