Top cast:Henry Cavill,Amy Adams,Michael Shannon
Director:Mark Mylod
Genre:News
Region:India
Year:2005
Storyline:This sentimental film, Ford""s first ""romantic love story,"" received a total of seven Academy Awards nominations (including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor - Victor McLaglen, Best Screenplay - Frank Nugent, Best Art Direction, and Best Sound) and won two Oscars: Best Cinematography - Winton Hoch and Archie Stout, and Ford (at 57 years of age) won his fourth and final Best Director Oscar, establishing a record that is still unbeaten.Also, the film""s wonderful musical score by Alfred Newman is unforgettable.Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, and English actor Robert Newton were all considered for the role eventually played by British stage actor Laurence Olivier.The screenplay for director Ridley Scott""s film (only his second feature film followingThe Duellists (1977), although Walter Hill was originally to be the director) was written by Dan O""Bannon, who based the script upon a story (originally titledStar Beast) that he had written with partner Ronald Shusett.(Was he the next Jason?) The film ended with a zoom to his eyeball under the mask, and a fade to black before the credits.Scientists discovered that toxin-making algae was present in 79% of the plankton hat the creatures ate.