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Classics only in Cinema
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The Right Stuff

Nominees and Awards

  • ★ 1984 Academy Awards Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original ScoreBest Effects, Sound Effects Editing,
  • ★ 1984 Academy Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Nominee
  • ★ 1984 Golden Globes Best Motion Picture - Drama Nominee

Synopsis

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than that preferred by the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

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Director

Philip KAUFMAN

Philip KAUFMAN attended the University of Chicago and later Harvard Law School. He won the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at Cannes for Goldstein (1964). He directed the hit Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay on Material from Another Medium for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

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