Nashville

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Awards

Academy Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Picture

Academy Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

Academy Awards 1976 - Won - Best Original Song

Academy Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Picture

Academy Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

Academy Awards 1976 - Won - Best Original Song

BAFTA Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Newcomer

BAFTA Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

BAFTA Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

BAFTA Awards 1976 - Won - Best Soundtrack

Bodil Awards 1977 - Won - Best Non-European Film

Cartagena Film Festival 1976 - Nominated - Best Film

Cartagena Film Festival 1976 - Won - Best Director

César Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Foreign Film

David di Donatello Awards 1976 - Won - Best Foreign Film

DGA Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Motion Picture Direction

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Director

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Female Acting Debut in a Motion Picture (2 nominations)

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Motion Picture Drama

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actor

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress (4 nominations)

Golden Globe Awards 1976 - Won - Best Original Song

NYFCC Awards 1975 - Won - Best Director

NYFCC Awards 1975 - Won - Best Film

NYFCC Awards 1975 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

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Nashville

Director:
Robert Altman
R, 159 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film Synopsis

Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious country icon Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) and his fragile star protegée Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley); Tom (Keith Carradine), a self-absorbed rock star who woos lonely married gospel singer Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin); Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a talentless waitress painfully humiliated at her first singing gig; Albuquerque (Barbara Harris), a runaway wife with dreams of stardom; nightclub owner Lady Pearl (Barbara Baxley), who reminisces about "those Kennedy boys"; single-minded groupie L.A. Joan (Shelley Duvall); vapid BBC commentator Opal (Geraldine Chaplin); and campaign guru John Triplette (Michael Murphy), who is trying to organize a concert rally for the unseen but always heard populist presidential candidate-cum-demagogue Hal Phillip Walker. Everything comes to a head during a climactic concert at Nashville's replica of the Parthenon temple, as the entertainment-hungry audience is momentarily woken out of its stupor by unexpected violence, only to be lulled into a restorative sing-along to "It Don't Worry Me."

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"One of Robert Altman's finest films -- and that's saying something..."

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Details

Runtime:
159 min.

Genres:
Comedy
Drama

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

 

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