The Natural

…notably for Ragtime (1981) and The Natural (1984); he earned his first Grammy for his sound track for the latter film. In 1995 he began a fruitful collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios, and he received two Academy Award nominations for his work on Toy Story (1995). He received three more…

…acclaim with such films as The Natural (1984), which starred Robert Redford as a mythical baseball hero; Young Sherlock Holmes (1985); Tin Men (1987), a story about two men who sell aluminum siding; and the comedy Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), about a military disc jockey (played by Robin Williams).

…first novel, The Natural (1952; film 1984), is a fable about a baseball hero who is gifted with miraculous powers. The Assistant (1957; film 1997) is about a young Gentile hoodlum and an old Jewish grocer. The Fixer (1966), which takes place in tsarist Russia, is the story of a…

Barry Levinson’s baseball film The Natural (1984; starring Robert Redford) and won praise for her role in Robert Altman’s Fool for Love (1985; based on a play by Sam Shepard). Basinger costarred with Mickey Rourke in the controversial and explicitly sexual 9 1/2 Weeks (1986). She costarred

…The Big Chill (1983) and The Natural (1984). In 1987 and 1989 she received best actress Academy Award nominations for her roles as a psychopathic temptress in the thriller Fatal Attraction and as the scheming Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.

He starred in The Natural (1984), an adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel about mythical baseball hero Roy Hobbs, which earned four Oscar nominations. Out of Africa (1985), in which he appeared opposite Meryl Streep, won 7 of the 11 Oscars for which it was nominated.