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1961 film| West Side Story | |
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| Directed by | Jerome Robbins Robert Wise |
| Written by | Jerome Robbins Arthur Laurents (play) Ernest Lehman |
| Produced by | Robert Wise |
| Starring | Natalie Wood Richard Beymer Russ Tamblyn Rita Moreno George Chakiris |
| Music by | Leonard Bernstein (Music) Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics) |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date | October 18 1961 (USA premiere) |
| Running time | 152 min. |
| Languages | English Spanish |
| Budget | $6,000,000 US (est.) |
West Side Story is a 1961 film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story.
The film was released on October 18 by United Artists. The film won ten Motion Picture Academy Awards including Best Picture, the most Oscars received by any movie musical.
The film was #41 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #3 on its 100 Years, 100 Passions, and has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. On AFI's 100 years, 100 songs, "Tonight" was #59, "America" was #35, and "Somewhere" was #20.
Credits
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Academy Award wins and nominations for the movie
Wins (10)
- Academy Award for Best Picture - Robert Wise, producer
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - George Chakiris
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Rita Moreno
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction- Set Decoration, Color - Victor A. Gangelin, and Boris Leven
- Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color - Daniel L. Fapp
- Academy Award for Costume Design, Color - Irene Sharaff
- Academy Award for Directing - Jerome Robbins, and Robert Wise
- Academy Award for Film Editing - Thomas Stanford
- Academy Award for Original Music Score, of a Musical Picture - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Irwin Kostal, and Sid Ramin
- Academy Award for Sound - Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD), and Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
Nominations (1)
- Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Ernest Lehman
External links
- West Side Story at IMDb
- http://www.westsidestory.com/
- http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm28.html
- Greatest Films Essay