B006TTC5HC

025192128394

1978

1979-02-23

183

3h 3min

Top rated movie #187 , Won 5 Oscars, 24 wins & 27 nominations total

Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle

Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale

Joann Carelli, Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, Marion Rosenberg, Barry Spikings

Stanley Myers

Vilmos Zsigmond

Peter Zinner

Cis Corman

Ron Hobbs, Kim Swados

Del Acevedo, Edwin Butterworth, Mary Keats, Dick Smith, Daniel C. Striepeke

David C. Anderson, Claude Binyon Jr., Ira Loonstein, Bill Lukather, Michael Orlando, Elliot Schick

Michael Grillo, Charles Okun, Chase Newhart, Charlie Sungkawess

Gus Basso, John Blezard, Ron Galloway, Richard C. Goddard, Alan Hicks, Art Lipschultz, Harold McConnell, Bud Peifer Jr., George Stokes, James T. Woods, Mickey Woods, Robert M. Anderson, Tom Jung, Donald B. Nunley, James Ragan

Donald A. Bolger, Teri E. Dorman, James Fritch, Michael Galloway, Stephen Katz, James J. Klinger, C. Darin Knight, Bobbe Kurtz, William L. McCaughey, Richard Portman, Frank M. Reale, Aaron Rochin, Robert Davenport

Fred Cramer, Garry Elmendorf, Jay King, Bob Myers, Ian Wingrove, James Yasotorn

Max Balchowsky, Jerry Brutsche, Howard Curtis, Ted Duncan, Bob Harris, Carey Loftin, Troy Melton, Buddy Van Horn, Jack Verbois, Chuck Waters, Rip Clark, Jay King

Enrique Bravo, Greer Cavagnaro, Katrina Franken, Michael Gershman, Philip Jones Griffiths, Wynn Hammer, Daniel R. Jordan, Keith Kelsay, Jack Kirk, Dieter Ludwig, Rick Martens, Danny Marzolo, Nick McLean, Robert Moore, Fred Muncey, Lou Noto, Fred Schuler, Don Whipple, Larry Whitehead, Jeff Gershman, Tim Ryan

Michael Denison, Beth Donohue

Sandy Berke Jordan, Laurie Riley, Eric Seelig, Mutita Na Songkla

Thomas K. Avildsen, Penelope Shaw, George Trirogoff, Florence Williamson

Frank Ernst, M.R. Boonyalak Sukawasdi, Charles Hubbard

William Saracino, John Williams, Malcolm McNab, Ethmer Roten, Tommy Tedesco, Louise Di Tullio

June Samson

Frank Cat Ballou, Arthur Dunne

Barry Butler, Joann Carelli, Eleanor Dawson, Richard Dioguardi, Exa Durham, Wayne Fitzgerald, Michael Flynn, Patrick Gauvain, Ralph Naradini, Patty Nelson, Nanette Siegert, Robert Werden, John Chambers, Dick Delson, David Hakim, Madeleine Klein, Dominic Santarone, Ruth Santarone

Hilary Brown, Sherman Grinberg, Stephen Kopestonsky, Ken Kovach, Michelle Kuhar, Tim Potts, John D. Rockefeller III, Mr. Thompson

Drama, War

EMI Films, Universal Pictures

USA, UK

English, Vietnamese, French, Russian, Cantonese

R

8.1

337743

86

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives were changed forever after fighting in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, with John Cazale (in his final role), Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza playing supporting roles. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a working-class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and in Vietnam.

The film was based in part on an unproduced screenplay called The Man Who Came to Play by Louis A. Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker, about Las Vegas and Russian roulette. Producer Michael Deeley, who bought the script, hired writer/director Michael Cimino who, with Deric Washburn, rewrote the script, taking the Russian roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War. The film went over-budget and over-schedule, and ended up costing $15 million. EMI Films, who produced the film, released the film internationally while Universal Pictures handled its distribution in North America.

The Deer Hunter s critical reception varied greatly. On the one hand, the film received acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for Cimino s direction, the performances of its cast (particularly from De Niro, Walken, Cazale, and Streep), and its screenplay, realistic themes and tones, and cinematography. It was also successful at the box office, grossing $49 million. At the 51st Academy Awards, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won five: Best Picture, Best Director for Cimino, Best Supporting Actor for Walken, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. The film marked Meryl Streep s first Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actress).

But despite the film s critical acclaim and Academy Award success, some of the industry s most prominent critics derided what they viewed as The Deer Hunter s simplistic, bigoted, and historically inaccurate depictions of the Vietnamese and of America s position in the Vietnam War; in the years since its release, this view of the film has grown, often overshadowing its early acclaim. The central theme of Vietnamese forcing American captives to play Russian Roulette has been widely criticized as having no basis in history, a claim director Michael Cimino denied but did not refute with documentary evidence.

It has been featured on lists of the best films ever made, such as being named the 53rd-greatest American film of all time by the American Film Institute in 2007 in their 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI s 100 Years...100 Movies list. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996, as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

$15,000,000 (estimated)

$48,979,328

$49,074,379

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