Academy Awards, USA 1986
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall Quincy Jones |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role Whoopi Goldberg | |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role Margaret Avery | |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oprah Winfrey | |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Menno Meyjes | |
| Best Cinematography Allen Daviau | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration J. Michael Riva Bo Welch Linda DeScenna | |
| Best Costume Design Aggie Guerard Rodgers | |
| Best Music, Original Song Quincy Jones (music/lyrics) Rod Temperton (music/lyrics) Lionel Richie (lyrics)
For the song "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)".
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| Best Music, Original Score Quincy Jones Jeremy Lubbock Rod Temperton Caiphus Semenya Andraé Crouch Chris Boardman Jorge Calandrelli Joel Rosenbaum Fred Steiner Jack Hayes Jerry Hey Randy Kerber | |
| Best Makeup Ken Chase |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
A young teenage girl endures a never-ending series of hardships in picturesque rural Georgia. Her children (the result of incest) are taken away from her. She is then forced into marriage and repeatedly raped and beaten by her brutal husband. Her sister barely avoids being raped by him as well, so he forcibly separates them and hides her letters for most of their adult lives. She is subject to the usual racism from white neighbors, who violently take out their frustrations on her friend and then lock her up in prison. She briefly finds solace in a lesbian relationship with her husband's lover. All of this dire melodrama takes place in fields overflowing with flowers, a honky tonk bursting with upbeat musical numbers and comedy relief from various characters who come and go when needed. Spielberg's attempt at drama is a near-total failure, his overblown production techniques, more suitable for a blockbuster, are a complete mismatch for this material.
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