Reds
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contribution by May
- In Elaine May
…him with the script for Reds (1981). She also served as an uncredited script doctor on Dustin Hoffman’s Tootsie (1982). Beatty acted as producer when she wrote and directed the comedy Ishtar (1987), which starred Beatty and Hoffman and was one of the most notorious flops in movie history.
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discussed in biography
- In Warren Beatty
Reds was the film that established Beatty as a serious filmmaker. The epic romantic tale of John Reed, an American communist who influenced the Russian Revolution of 1917, the film received Oscar nominations in all the major categories and won for Beatty an Oscar for…
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film editing
- In film: Editing
In Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981), for example, interviews with “witnesses” to the events portrayed in the film open, and occasionally interrupt, the story in order to validate the fiction being re-created as history. Conversely, in films such as Zelig (1983) and Forrest Gump (1994), editing techniques are used…
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Oscar to Beatty for best director, to Stapleton for best supporting actress, and to Storaro for best cinematography, 1981
role of Hackman
- In Gene Hackman
…films of the 1980s included Reds (1981), Hoosiers (1986), and No Way Out (1987), and he was once again nominated for a best actor Oscar for his performance in Mississippi Burning (1988). He won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Little Bill Daggett in Clint…
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