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The Sting (1973) (Patreon)

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2025-02-15 00:25:36
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Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Robert Earl Jones, Charles Dierkop, Charles Durning, Dimitra Arliss, Harold Gould, Eileen Brennan, Dana Elcar, Ray Walston

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Michael Soukup

To answer your Oscar questions: nominated for 10 Oscars

Michael Soukup

Oops hut the return too soon! Won Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, Costumes, Editing, Score. Nominated Actor, Cinematography, Sound

Michael Soukup

Redford had a monster year with this and The Way We Were. I suspect that helped get him the Actor nomination.

D Gyre

Definitely will take this since I'm not getting Spy Game yet! Such a great classic, just a fun movie.

Dylan Hearts

Your comment about the actor who played Luther Coleman in the film "He has a great voice, reminds me James Earl Jones" was very ironic because that actor was Robert Earl Jones, the father of JEJ. No wonder you pick up the similarity lol Great reaction, enjoyed rewatching this classic with you!

Actuarial Lurker
>>164779515

I sąw this at age 8 in the theatre with my father, but rewatching it and learning who played Luther Coleman later I couldn't help wanting him to say..."Lord Vader...I am your father...". Actually Robert Earl Jones helped break the "color line" for African American actors earlier in his career and was considered a trailblazer....he was dirt poor in Mississippi and moved north to Chicago and befriended Langston Hughes and broke through in 1939/40 BUT was targeted by the House Unamerican Committee and McCarthy for being a "leftist" (probably more a Black man who didn't know "his place") which derailed him for a few years but then came back in the 60s and 70s...he actually was in the Amish-themed film Witness that you just watched as well as Trading Places and The Cotton Club in the 80s

Actuarial Lurker
>>164770314

Yep- it won 7 Oscars. It was released in December 1973 but became a smash hit during early 1974 when I saw it with my Dad at age 8. It beat out American Graffiti and The Exorcist for Best Picture. Redford was an also ran for Best Actor was up against Brando for Last Tango, Pacino in Serpico. It wasn't even nominated for Best Score since Hamlisch won for The Way We Were while ALSO winning Best Original Score for The Sting. The Sting did win Best Art Direction going against The Exorcist and The Way We Were and also won Best Editing going against The Exorcist and The Way We Were

Actuarial Lurker
>>164770314

I also saw the Exorcist first run.. there was mass hysteria with people passing out, puking in the theaters during the exorcism scenes etc. since some of the theaters used the new surround sound that was used for Earthquake, The Towering Inferno etc. So it WAS an achievement to beat out the Exorcist in so many of the art, music and editing categories

Actuarial Lurker
>>164770314

1973/74 was a mega-hit year. Serpico, High Plains Drifter, Wicker Man, Live and Let Die, Paper Moon, American Graffiti, Mean Streets, West World, Soylent Green, Papilion, The Way We Were, Magnum Force, Jesus Christ Superstar, Enter The Dragon, Day of the Jackal, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Day of the Dolphin etc