John Guillermin’s Academy Award Winning remake of iconic Hollywood classic, King Kong (1976), starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange and produced by Hollywood legend Dino de Laurentiis, this retelling of the classic monster adventure film went on to jointly win the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, as well as receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography (Richard H. Kline) and Best Sound. Jessica Lange was also honoured as Best new Actress for her role at the Golden Globes that same year.
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an employee of a large American oil company, has been charged with a mission to find new oil wells. With a chartered boat, he sets off on a journey to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. On board is also a stowaway: the palaeontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) has smuggled himself onto the ship, as he hopes to examine a rare species of monkey on this island.
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an employee of a large American oil company, has been charged with a mission to find new oil wells. With a chartered boat, he sets off on a journey to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. On board is also a stowaway: the palaeontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) has smuggled himself onto the ship, as he hopes to examine a rare species of monkey on this island.
- 12/14/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
On Thursday, the 85th Annual Academy Award nominations will be announced as Hollywood learns who will have a chance of taking home an Oscar statuette on February 24th. Meanwhile, a peculiar dispute plays out over a stolen Oscar statuette that was awarded more than three decades ago to The Deer Hunter sound mixer Aaron Rochin. In November, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences sued a man named James Dunne who allegedly offered an Oscar statuette on eBay and sold it for $25,000. The Film Academy has reason to believe this Oscar might be Rochin's, pointing out that
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- 1/7/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy sues to prevent the sale of "Deer Hunter" Oscar: "But what happens when the statuette is damaged? That's what happened in 1979 to Aaron Rochin, who won an Oscar for his sound work on the Robert De Niro classic 'The Deer Hunter.' Unfortunately, Rochin's statuette was 'blemished,' so the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences replaced it and took back the original for repairs. But at the statuette facility, Rochin's original blemished Oscar was then stolen and never found. Flash forward more than 30 years to last September, when a guy named James Dunne allegedly offered for sale on eBay a rare Oscar statuette. Is it the same as the stolen Rochin award?" Hollywood Reporter Thelma Schoonmaker talks about how the digital revolution will affect classic films: "In June, director Martin Scorsese tried to show his 1993 film 'The Age of Innocence' at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
- 11/23/2012
- Gold Derby
The Academy sues to prevent the sale of "Deer Hunter" Oscar: "But what happens when the statuette is damaged? That's what happened in 1979 to Aaron Rochin, who won an Oscar for his sound work on the Robert De Niro classic 'The Deer Hunter.' Unfortunately, Rochin's statuette was 'blemished,' so the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences replaced it and took back the original for repairs. But at the statuette facility, Rochin's original blemished Oscar was then stolen and never found. Flash forward more than 30 years to last September, when a guy named James Dunne allegedly offered for sale on eBay a rare Oscar statuette. Is it the same as the stolen Rochin award?" Hollywood Reporter Thelma Schoonmaker talks about how the digital revolution will affect classic films: "In June, director Martin Scorsese tried to show his 1993 film 'The Age of Innocence' at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
- 11/23/2012
- Gold Derby
The Academy sues to prevent the sale of "Deer Hunter" Oscar: "But what happens when the statuette is damaged? That's what happened in 1979 to Aaron Rochin, who won an Oscar for his sound work on the Robert De Niro classic 'The Deer Hunter.' Unfortunately, Rochin's statuette was 'blemished,' so the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences replaced it and took back the original for repairs. But at the statuette facility, Rochin's original blemished Oscar was then stolen and never found. Flash forward more than 30 years to last September, when a guy named James Dunne allegedly offered for sale on eBay a rare Oscar statuette. Is it the same as the stolen Rochin award?" Hollywood Reporter Thelma Schoonmaker talks about how the digital revolution will affect classic films: "In June, director Martin Scorsese tried to show his 1993 film 'The Age of Innocence' at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
- 11/23/2012
- Gold Derby
A possibly counterfeit Oscars trophy for the 1978 film has sparked a very real lawsuit. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington state over an Oscar statuette that "was either a genuine statuette or a very convincing counterfeit." If it's real, the trophy was the one awarded to Aaron Rochin for his sound work on the 1978 film "The Deer Hunter." Also read: Why Oscar's "Simple" Date Change Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Academy is suing Washington resident James Dunne, who sold the...
- 11/20/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
On the night of the Academy Awards, all the nominees want to go home with an Oscar statuette. But what happens when the statuette is damaged? That's what happened in 1979 to Aaron Rochin, who won an Oscar for his sound work on the Robert De Niro classic The Deer Hunter. Unfortunately, Rochin's statuette was "blemished," so the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences replaced it and took back the original for repairs. But at the statuette facility, Rochin's original blemished Oscar was then stolen and never found. Flash forward more than 30 years to last September, when
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- 11/20/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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