Directed by hal ashby, starring jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern, and penelope milford. Fonda and hellman will take part in an onstage discussion. All 20 songs from the coming home 1978 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Zhang yimou and gong li reteam for the big screen adaptation of author yan gelings coming home. Feb 24, 2015 check winners and nominees of 1978 academy awards. In 1978, voight portrayed the paraplegic vietnam veteran luke martin in hal ashbys film coming home, and was awarded best actor at the cannes film festival, for his portrait of a cynical, yet noble paraplegic, reportedly based on reallife vietnam veteranturnedantiwaractivist ron kovic, with whom fondas character falls in love. Best performance by an actor in a motion picture comedy or musical. During the ceremony, ampas presented academy awards commonly referred to as oscars in 22. Coming home 1978 the wife of a marine serving in vietnam, sally hyde jane fonda decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. Internet movie poster awards one of the largest collections of movie poster images online.
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture drama. Official theatrical movie poster for coming home 1978. Coming home 1978 hal ashby synopsis, characteristics. Tied with laurence olivier for the boys from brazil 1978. A woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. Oscar and academy awards and oscar design mark are the trademarks and service marks and the oscar statuette the ed property, of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. She received academy awards for best actress for her performances as a call girl in klute and as the wife of a vietnam war soldier in coming home. Best picture coming home, jerome hellman, producer united artists. Nov 24, 2010 ginger rogers and diana ross presenting jon voight the oscar for best actor for his performance in coming home at the 51st academy awards in 1979. Jul 02, 20 1978 was an interesting year for major motion pictures about the vietnam war. At the 1979 oscars it competed alongside the deer hunter in most of the big categories, taking best actor and actress while ciminos film took best picture, director and supporting actor i want to say bruce dern was robbed but the winner was christopher.
He has also won four golden globe awards and has so far been nominated for eleven. Jane fonda winning an oscar for coming home youtube. Coming home 1978 soundtrack complete list of songs. Starring jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern, penelope milford.
Awards chatter podcast jane fonda grace and frankie. Both films were set in the year 1968, though they differed in their filmatic style and political stance. Coming home was released just a few years after fondas notoriously imagedamaging trip to north vietnam, which the actress herself would denounce decades. All the trivia you can handle about coming home, 1978, directed by hal ashby, with jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern.
Film tersebut mengisahkan tentang seorang wanita muda, suami marinirnya, dan veteran perang vietnam yang ia temui saat suaminya berada di. With jane fonda, jon voight, bruce dern, penelope milford. Originating as a project for jane fondas production company, coming home took five years to get made, but it was still part of the first wave of hollywood movies to address the controversial vietnam war. Twotime academy award winner jane fonda and producer jerome hellman will be the special guests at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences monday nights with oscar screening of hal ashbys 1978 drama coming home on monday, nov. Its not anymore a sterile discussion between the im rights and the youre wrongs, its the study of three tragic destinies. Coming home is an unsentimental but heartfelt study of the plight of the wounded. Coming home trailer a woman whose husband is fighting in vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury. Best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital, where. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing coming home 1978 near you. Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, miniseries or. It was the first year that hollywood felt that enough time had passed since the end of the war to make a commercially viable movie about it. Coming home premiered at the 1978 cannes film festival, where voight won the award for best actor for his performance.
Coming home, 1978 best films to watch on veterans day. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Coming home was really the first major vietnam movie, but the timing of it is interesting. He is the winner of one academy award, having been nominated for four. Im not so sure id agree that either jon voight academy awardbest actor or jane fonda academy awardbest actress is exemplary they both won academy.
Coming home is in general an excellent hal ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three. Coming home was praised for its sensitive performances, jon voight won the new york film critics circle prize for best actor, and it was nominated for eight oscars, but it was quickly overshadowed by michael ciminos more inflammatory vietnam epic the deer hunter. Coming home is a film directed by hal ashby with jon voight, jane fonda, bruce dern, robert carradine, year. Jon voight won the academy award for best actor for his. Coming home adalah sebuah film drama amerika tahun 1978 garapan hal ashby, dan dibintangi oleh jane fonda, jon voight dan bruce dern. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. Nebraska 20 best actor in a supporting role motion picture. Coming home is in general an excellent hal ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three participants. Admirable in many ways, coming home succumbs to the same american lust for romance and heroism for which it implicitly condemns its doomed marine captain.
Holly wood jumped in feet first with coming home and the deer hunter. During the 1970s, he appeared in several hit films like conrack 1974, the odessa file 1974, end of the game 1976, and coming home 1978. Director hal ashby harold and maude, shampoo created some of the best american films of the 1970s, and coming home became one of his most lauded works, earning a rare place in academy awards history as one of the few films. Guild of german art house cinemas awards, best foreign film, hal ashby, won. Evocative watercolor paintings illuminate a world war ii story of crossgenerational love and convey the longing of a child anticipating her mothers return. In 1968, marine captain bob hyde bruce dern leaves his wife sally jane fonda behind when hes. The successful film depicted the effects of the vietnam war in the intimate, steamy and provocative relationship both sexual and romantic between. Sally and luke share a passionate attraction, one which is obviously complicated when bob also returns home from the war.
With the presence of outspoken antiwar activist hanoi jane as the star, and fellow activist haskell wexler behind the camera, coming home espoused a clear antiwar stance. Coming home is a 1978 american drama film directed by hal ashby, and starring jane fonda, jon voight and bruce dern. He is the father of actress angelina jolie and actor james haven voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his oscarnominated performance. May 16, 2014 zhang yimou and gong li reteam for the big screen adaptation of author yan gelings coming home. This site is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. Coming home, jerome hellman, producer united artists the deer hunter, barry spikings, michael deeley, michael cimino and john peverall, producers universal. Sep 19, 2018 jon voight won the academy award for best actor for his role as luke martin in coming home 1978. In 19781979, there were too many movies dealing with the vietnam war and later, i simply forgot that this film existed.
Coming home 1978 soundtrack complete list of songs whatsong. Discover the worlds greatest film festivals and awards on mubi. Coming home 1978 soundtracks 21 hey jude 1968 written by paul mccartney uncredited and john lennon uncredited performed by the beatles as beatles strawberry fields forever 1967 written by paul mccartney uncredited and john lennon uncredited. In 1978 1979, there were too many movies dealing with the vietnam war and later, i simply forgot that this film existed. After a semidetour into epic period drama curse of the golden flower, wwii drama the. War veteran in the drama coming home 1978 that earned him golden globe and oscar awards for best actor. Since his basic loyalty is to the marine corps, that presents difficulties at times. Coming home is an unsentimental but heartfelt study of the plight of the wounded vietnam vet. In 1978, the academy of motion picture arts and sciences nominated two vastly different vietnam war films for best picture. Two of the three frontrunners in the 1978 awards race were antiwar films that reflected the nations divided attitudes toward the war.
Coming home secured academy awards for fonda, voight, and scripters. Sally bender is the wife of a captain in the united states army. If the marine corps had wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one. She is faithful, friendly, sexy in a quiet way, and totally in agreement with her husbands loyalties. Michael ciminos the deer hunter and hal ashbys coming home, each garnering a large number of nominations. Coming home 1978 soundtracks 21 hey jude 1968 written by paul mccartney uncredited and john lennon uncredited. And i must admit that time was lenient on coming home. Jon voight won the academy award for best actor for his role. Coming home 1978 heaven can wait 1978 midnight express 1978. Fonda then joined dolly parton and lily tomlin in read more. In 1979, voight played an alcoholic exheavyweight in the remake of the 1931 film the champ which went on to become an international hit. Internet movie poster awards one of the largest collections of movie poster.
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