Academy Awards, USA 1981
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture Jonathan Sanger |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role John Hurt | |
| Best Director David Lynch | |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Christopher De Vore Eric Bergren David Lynch | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Stuart Craig Robert Cartwright Hugh Scaife | |
| Best Costume Design Patricia Norris | |
| Best Film Editing Anne V. Coates | |
| Best Music, Original Score John Morris |
Paramount Pictures
Directed by David Lynch
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Paramount)
Anthony Hopkins is a a doctor in Victorian London who finds a deformed man in a circus sideshow. He takes him back to the hospital where he works and tries to keep him in an upstairs room. The hospital's governor at first rejects the idea, but later comes to accept that the man be curable after all. Hopkins gradually teaches him how to behave in polite society, culminating in a night at the theater. However, a hospital employee sells tickets to street people to secretly visit him at night and his old sideshow owner reappears to claim him. A very moving portrait of what it means to be human, brilliantly acted by John Hurt under tons of makeup. Interesting companion piece to David Lynch's first film Eraserhead, with which it shares some similarities, though in a more acceptable Hollywood studio film.
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