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At the 48th Golden Globe Awards, Dances With Wolves received six nominations, winning three for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film garnered nine nominations for the 45th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film; However, it did not win in any categories.
Mar 26, 1991 · The first western to win the Best Picture award since "Cimarron" in 1931, "Dances With Wolves" was initially scorned by Hollywood because of its length, extensive use of dialogue in...
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Dances With Wolves, American epic western film, released in 1990, that was directed by and starred Kevin Costner and won widespread admiration as well as seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture. It also received the Golden Globe Award for best drama.
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After an apparently heroic act during a Civil War battle in Tennessee, Union army Lieutenant John Dunbar (played by Costner) is offered his choice of posting, and he requests to be sent to the western frontier. He is transferred first to Fort Hays in Kansas, where the unhinged Major Fambrough (Maury Chaykin) assigns him to the army’s most distant outpost, Fort Sedgewick. When Dunbar arrives at the post, he is surprised to find it deserted and in disrepair, but he chooses to stay nonetheless. He sets about restoring the fort, and he keeps a journal of his experiences and activities. A wolf with two white feet begins frequenting the post, and Dunbar, dubbing the wolf Two Socks, attempts to tame it.
One day Dunbar returns from bathing in the river to find a Sioux man, Kicking Bird (Graham Greene), trying to steal his horse. Dunbar chases Kicking Bird away. Later, the Sioux warrior Wind In His Hair (Rodney A. Grant) leads a group to try again to steal the horse. Dunbar then decides to visit the Sioux village. On his way he comes across a white woman in Sioux clothing who is bleeding badly, and he brings her to the Sioux. The Indians are wary of Dunbar, but Kicking Bird persuades them not to attack him. The village chief, Ten Bears (Floyd Red Crow Westerman), enjoins Kicking Bird and Wind In His Hair to learn more about Dunbar, and a series of increasingly friendly visits and gift exchanges ensue. Eventually the white woman, Stands With A Fist (Mary McDonnell), who was rescued and adopted as a small child by Kicking Bird after her family was killed in a Pawnee raid, begins to act as a translator.
•Studios: Tig Productions, Majestic Films International, and Allied Filmmakers
•Director: Kevin Costner
•Music: John Barry
•Cinematographer: Dean Semler
•Kevin Costner (Lieutenant John Dunbar/Dances With Wolves)
•Mary McDonnell (Stands With A Fist)
•Graham Greene (Kicking Bird)
•Rodney A. Grant (Wind In His Hair)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Kevin Costner)
•Supporting actor (Graham Greene)
•Supporting actress (Mary McDonnell)
•Cinematography*
•Costume design
- Patricia Bauer
The film was nominated for 12 awards at the 63rd Academy Awards and won 7, including Best Picture, Best Director for Costner, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing.
Feb 23, 2016 · Kevin Costner’s magnum opus was a prestige studio film that revealed more about the 1990s than the 1860s.
The Oscar host makes a dramatic exit. John Barry. Original Score winner for Dances with Wolves. Dean Semler. Cinematography winner for Dances with Wolves. View More Memorable Moments.
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Nov 21, 2015 · That the film -- which was released 25 years ago today -- went on to win seven of the 12 Academy Awards it was nominated for, including best picture and best director for Costner, grossed more ...
