Join as Evilive reviews @WarnerBros’ Superman: The Movie. Superman: The Movie is the 1978 superhero film based on DC Comics featuring the eponymous character, played by Christopher Reeve. It is the first of four installments in the Superman film series starring Reeve as Superman. You can learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1978_film)
Intro
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Discussion
- Directed by Richard Donner
- Screenplay by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, & Robert Benton
- Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth
- Music by John Williams
- Released December 15, 1978
- Budget $55 million
- Box office $300.5 million
- Log Line:
- An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home’s first and greatest superhero.
- Ratings:
- Cast:
- Marlon Brando as Jor-El
- Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor
- Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent / Superman
- Jeff East as the teenage Clark Kent
- Ned Beatty as Otis
- Jackie Cooper as Perry White
- Glenn Ford as Jonathan Kent
- Trevor Howard as the First Elder
- Margot Kidder as Lois Lane
- Jack O’Halloran as Non
- Valerie Perrine as Eve Teschmacher
- Maria Schell as Vond-Ah
- Terence Stamp as General Zod
- Phyllis Thaxter as Martha Kent (née Clark)
- Susannah York as Lara
- Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen
- Sarah Douglas as Ursa
- Harry Andrews as the Second Elder
- Awards:
- nominated for three Academy Awards:
- Best Film Editing (Stuart Baird),
- Best Original Score (John Williams) and Best Sound (Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier and Roy Charman)[87] and
- received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects.
- 32nd British Academy Film Awards
- Reeve won Best Newcomer, while Hackman, Unsworth, Barry, and the sound designers earned nominations.[88]
- The film won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.[89]
- At the Saturn Awards, Kidder, Barry, John Williams, and the visual effects department received awards, and the film won Best Science Fiction Film.[90]
- Reeve, Hackman, Donner, Valerie Perrine, and costume designer Yvonne Blake were nominated for their work as well.[citation needed]
- In addition, Williams was nominated at the 36th Golden Globe Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
- nominated for three Academy Awards:
- Notes:
- To obtain the musculature to convincingly play Superman, Christopher Reeve underwent a bodybuilding regime supervised by David Prowse, the man who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
- Clark Kent and Superman’s hair part on opposite sides.
- Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were both delighted with the results of this movie.
- In its initial run, the film topped the box-office charts for thirteen consecutive weeks.
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