| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Won | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Peggy Ashcroft Peggy Ashcroft was not present at the awards ceremony. Angela Lansbury accepted the award on her behalf. |
| Best Music, Original Score Maurice Jarre | |||
| Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Judy Davis | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration John Box Hugh Scaife | |||
| Best Cinematography Ernest Day | |||
| Best Costume Design Judy Moorcroft | |||
| Best Director David Lean | |||
| Best Film Editing David Lean | |||
| Best Picture John Brabourne Richard B. Goodwin | |||
| Best Sound Graham V. Hartstone Nicolas Le Messurier Michael A. Carter John W. Mitchell | |||
| Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium David Lean | |||
Columbia Pictures
Directed by David Lean
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Sony)
Muddled adaptation of the EM Forster novel set in India during the time of British rule. Judy Davis sails from England to be with her fiance, a judge in an Indian court room. His racist attitudes towards the natives offends her to the point that she calls off the marriage, but later changes her mind. In an attempt to see the "real India" she plans a trip to some remote caves with a professor friend and his entourage. Instead, she has some kind of inexplicable hallucination in a cave and claims she was raped. A sensational trial follows, but once again she changes her mind. In a postscript years later the professor forgives her. It's all beautifully filmed by Lean and cinematographer Ernest Day, it's just too bad it's wasted on this story. The soundtrack by Maurice Jarre is good but belongs in another film as well, it ruins the mood and is completely inappropriate.
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