Its tagline described its 5 M's:"The Man...The Music...The Madness...The Murder...The Motion Picture...AMADEUS...Everything you've heard is true."In the awards year in whichAmadeuswas being considered, it was competing and contending against British director David Lean's epicA Passage to India (1984)that also received 11 Academy Awards nominations (with two wins, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Musical Score).Nonetheless, it remains one of the most optimistic American films of the post-war period - with Paris at its center.[Edwards' casting in a non-racially defined role was considered slightly controversial for its time.] His fitful slumber dissolves into a second sequence at the garden party just after the death of Mavole - the garden party ladies areblackas he would have remembered it." She admits that she knows just how he feels - and is unable to believehispreposterous claims of vacationing in Florida.