UK-US (1984): Drama
This adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of British racism in colonial India turned out to be master director David Lean's final film. Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful to the book, rendering its blend of the mystical and the all-too human with exquisite precision.
Judy Davis plays a young British woman traveling in India with her fiancé's mother (Dame Peggy Ashcroft). While visiting a tourist attraction, she has a frightening moment in a cave -- one that she eventually spins from an instant of mental meltdown into a tale of a physical attack that ruins several lives. The cast also features Victor Banerjee, James Fox, Alec Guinness and Saeed Jaffrey. Lean captures Forster's sense of awe at the kind of ageless wisdom and inexplicable phenomena to be encountered in India, as well as the British tendency to dismiss it all as savage, rather than simply different. (Marshall Fine, Amazon.com)
11 nominations, 2 Awards
· Supporting Actress 1984: Dame Peggy Ashcroft
· Music Scoring Awards (Best Original Score) 1984: Maurice Jarre
· Best Picture 1984: John Brabourne & Richard Goodwin - Producers (G.W. Films Ltd., Columbia)
· Actress 1984: Judy Davis
· Directing 1984: David Lean
· Writing (Best Screenplay based on material from another medium) 1984: David Lean
· Art Direction/Set Decoration 1984: John Box & Leslie Tomkins - Art Direction, Hugh Scaife - Set Decoration
· Cinematography 1984: Ernest Day
· Costume Design 1984: Judy Moorcroft
· Film Editing 1984: David Lean
· Sound 1984: Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter, John Mitchell
