West Side Story (1961 film)

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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

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