(1981)
4.5
Lucia Bozzola
An achievement in epic storytelling and historical romance, Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) combines American Communist John Reed's experience of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath with the intimate relationship between Reed and Louise Bryant, his match in progressive thinking. Structured through the reminiscences of two dozen actual witnesses, from Henry Miller to George Jessel, the film meticulously recreates the culturally volatile World War I period, from the bourgeois Portland abandoned by Diane Keaton's Louise to the passionate Greenwich Village bohemia of Beatty's Reed, Maureen Stapleton's no-nonsense Emma Goldman, and Jack Nicholson's cynically romantic Eugene O'Neill. Reed's final reunion with lover/comrade Bryant poignantly reveals the personal cost of his political beliefs. Praised as an impressive accomplishment, regardless of its historical liberties, Reds earned 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor for Nicholson, and four for Beatty as producer, director, actor, and co-writer. One of the last vestiges of artistically ambitious 1970s "auteur" Hollywood, Reds won Oscars for Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, Stapleton's supporting performance, and Beatty's direction, but it lost Best Picture to Chariots of Fire.
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Reds (1981)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Best Actor
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1981 |
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Best Actress
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1981 |
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Best Art Direction
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1981 |
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Best Cinematography
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1981 |
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Best Costume Design
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1981 |
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Best Director
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1981 |
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Best Editing
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1981 |
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Best Original Screenplay
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1981 |
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Best Picture
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1981 |
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Best Sound
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1981 |
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Best Supporting Actor
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1981 |
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Best Supporting Actress
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1981 |
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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Won |
Best Supporting Actor
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1982 |
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Best Supporting Actress
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1982 |
Directors Guild of America
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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Best Director
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1981 |
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
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1981 |
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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1981 |
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
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1981 |
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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1981 |
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Best Picture - Drama
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1981 |
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Best Screenplay
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1981 |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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Best Cinematography
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1981 |
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Best Director
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1981 |
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Best Supporting Actress
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1981 |
National Board of Review
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Won |
Best Director
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1981 |
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Best Picture
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1981 |
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Best Supporting Actor
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1981 |
New York Film Critics Circle