Richard Attenborough winning the Oscars® for Directing and for Best Picture for "Gandhi" at the 55th Academy Awards® in 1983. Presented by Billy Wilder and Carol Burnett and hosted by Walter Matthau.
Well, Richard was also an very good actor. Should have been nominated for his work in Séance on a Wet Afternoon. Both he and Kim Stanley were brilliant.
Gandhi is one of the Greatest films ever made, and Sir Richard Attenborough is easily one of the Greatest filmmaker humanitarians born to walk this Earth, because to understand Gandhi completely you have to become a bit of Gandhi, and Attenborough presented Mahatma Gandhi so splendidly.
Gandhi was the last of the cinematic spectacles filmed with a cast of thousands (the extras). Nowadays the "thousands" of extras are CGI generated. Those were the glory days of Hollywood.
Once in a interview Sir Ben Kingsley said that there were 400'000 people for the filming of the funeral if I heard it right. I think it was in Interview with GQ
As an Indian, i bow my Head at the feet of this Gentlemen Sir Richard Attenborough... For making this Biopic of Our Father of Nation, Gandhi ji.. To show his ways and struggles to the next generations.. It was a gift to the Indian people for generations.. Thank you sir🙏🙏🙏
R.I.P Sir Richard the world has lost a true warm loving human being today, Sir Richards talents knew no bounds but it is for his humility and humanity that i am sure many will remember and miss him.
Billy Wilder presenting-it doesn't get better, what a list of films he had. Richard Attenborough delivered a film that does stand the test of time, IMHO. Gandhi was his dream project, and we learned more about India by watching.
Gandhi was a well made movie as the man himself. It deserved because of the idea Richard elaborated, i think, it struck everyone at that point of time.
Devamalya Ghosh thats the irony of indian civilization and this chaos leads to evolution of greatest personalities. It is repeating always, so we tolerate and let them exist because ultimately it will help the society to evolve better. With all contradictions coexisting we thrive for better and better. Remember Richard was British as Churchill who wanted Gandhi dead.
Richard's words shows the detailed reading about subject/autobiography that he produced and what more is he learned the Gandhi's message and passed it to fellows with his amazing vision. Genius at work
I still remembered watching Gandhi in a cinema in Canberra when it was premiered there. I was young student at the Australian National University then in 1983. After the movie ended, there was a standing ovation by the whole audience throughout the credit rolls. What a movie experience that was.
Gandhi is most relevant in this era of violence to bring peace .et also inspired humanity .there could have been a joint oscar for both Spielberg and Attenborough like Nobel prize. Thanks.n.c.rakshit.
The small details in the movie really blew my mind. Only a person who has read Indian freedom struggle would spot those things.. after mahatma's first speech in India we see a young boy wearing black cap in the crowd..a member of radical Hindu organization.... Or lokmanya tilak sitting beside Jinnah in the same event, not to be seen again since he died shortly afterwards.
Richard Attenborough was a good director, but he was an EXCEPTIONAL actor. It's really a shame that he wasn't recognized for his performances in Brighton Rock, Guns at Batasi, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, 10 Rillington Place, and all the other performances he gave that should've been nominated or won.
My kids' generation is still a fortunate one having parents like me who have the opportunity and the ease to steer their attention on powerful speeches such as this delivered by gentlemen and mentors like Richard Attenborough. It saddens me to think of a world bereft of such luminous and illustrious models.
Great honour for all humility that Film like is made by you......such a great personality comes to know all the world by the way you portrayed.....Love you and thank you for such courage and strength 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I like that Richard Attenborough gave a shout out to Stephen Spielberg here. Ten years later he was directed by Spielberg in Jurassic Park. RIP Richard Attenborough...
Sir, absolutely amazing film and your words of praise for Mahatma Gandhi. It's clearly visible you have done a lot of research and the message you wanted to convey to the whole world through this film.
Yes, Ben Kingsley was outstanding as Gandhi. He won every award for his performance: Academy Award, Golden Globe, Bafta, etc. Richard truly deserved Best Achievement in Directing, but Best Picture E.T. should have won, like in the Golden Globes that year.
It's absolutely tragic to listen to Richard Attenborough talk so passionately and eloquently about 'men of peace' and the dangers we all face if ignoring the great human tragedies throughout history and the lessons that have to be learned and acted upon.....F/F to February 2024 we haven't learned anything indeed through the greed violence oppression of many millions of innocent people across the world we have through misunderstanding intolerance and hate are leading us all into a new dark age...😢😢❤️
It's a highly predictable outcome. All those other nominees - strikingly entertaining as they are - up against the story of a simple man and his nation who challenged - via peaceful means - a colonist empire, and won; an inspiration to the World over. Hands down.
Whoa ... what a list for best director! I didn’t know Attenborough produced this film as well. And what an acceptance speech for best producer- few, if any, have been better. Such eloquence.
Damn, that was a great list of directors that year. Still wish Spielberg would have won Director and Picture though. Nothing beats the 'Goodbye' sequence at the end of E.T. Too much perfection.
Gandhi deserved it whole heartedly. Ben Kingsley gave one of the greatest performances of all time in that film, and Richard Attenborough really did his story justice.
I am very proud to be British in every single sense may not have been born there but very proud to have grown up there would not want it any other way . What eloquence and such excellence not only of the talent of Sir Richard Attenborough of majority of the British . An American on average could not string a set of pearls let alone a sentence . Gandhi one of the top greatest of all time deserved every single win it got with such a great team and director .
Wow, this has to be the best Best Director roster of all time! I would have given it to Spielberg, then Petersen, but all were totally deserving of their nominations.
Yes, Gandhi has great locations, beautiful art direction, great costumes and flawless performances, and these are the aspects that a movie must have to be deserving of the Best Picture award. You're right. (continue)
