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Best Motion Picture of the Year
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Best Motion Picture - Drama
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L.A. Film Critics (1998)
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Best Picture of the year
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Tom Hanks
Best Original screenplay
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Original Dramatic Score
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Best Motion Picture of the Year
Achievement in directing
- Steven Spielberg
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Tom Hanks
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
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Nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Tom Hanks
Best Screenplay
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Nominated
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Male Performance
- Tom Hanks
Best Action Sequence
Nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Tom Hanks
Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
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Best Original screenplay
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Saving Private Ryan
Big-budget WWII Spielberg epic finds eight soldiers, led by army captain Hanks, forced to go behind enemy lines in order to rescue downed paratrooper James Ryan (Damon). He's the sole surviving brother of four soldier siblings and the government wants some good PR--the men pulling the duty are less than enthusiastic, however. Pick your favorite reviewer-speak word--gripping, moving, intense, masterpiece--any or all of them will work. The opening 25-minute graphic depiction of Omaha Beach on D-Day is, on its own, Oscar-worthy. Hanks and the rest of the cast (which included a few surprise cameos) are excellent. Spielberg deglamorizes war, without belittling the sacrifices made by those who fought. The actors (except Damon) went through boot camp in England in order to get the proper attitude.
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Very awesome war movie..
Very Good Movie
rqauma at 2008-06-05 06:42:26
rqauma at 2008-06-05 06:42:26
It's been over a year since first seeing Saving Private Ryan -- it's a worthy effort by Speilberg--his best since Shindler's List by far. You've probably heard about the amount of violence, blood, and gore and that's all true--it's got the Viet Nam movie style violence (and then some) but it's not gratuitous. Were it sanitized like early WWII movies, modern audiences probably wouldn't take it as seriously.
This is the best representation yet of the horrors witnessed by the kids sent to Europe to fight in the war. I found myself breathless at times. While their are references to factual events scattered throughout the movie, the fact that it is ultimately a work of fiction bothered me initially. Regardless, the battles portrayed in the film could have been ANY battle fought in the hedgerows and villages of Normandy during the summer of 1944.
Can't wait to see
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Universal Studios Home Video
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