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Gandhi

Gandhi (1982)

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GENRES:
Biography, Epics/historical, Drama

BUDGET:
$22,000,000 USD

DVD RELEASE DATE:
August 27, 2001

RELEASE DATE:
November 30, 1982 – India
December 3, 1982 – United Kingdom
December 8, 1982 – United States

GROSS REVENUE:
$52,767,889 (North America)


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Richard Attenborough

John Briley

Ravi Shankar & George Fenton

Ronnie Taylor & Billy Williams

John Bloom

Goldcrest Films

Co-production between United Kingdom & India

Hindi | English

Aga Khan Palace, Nagar Rd, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Amritsar, Punjab, India

Bihar, India

Birla House, New Delhi, Delhi, India – assassination

Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK

Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK

Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Delhi, India

England, UK

Gujarat, India

Hyderabad House, Delhi, India – office of General Smut

India Gate, New Delhi, Delhi, India – funeral parade

India

Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK

Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Nagar Rd, Pune, Maharashtra, India

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Old Town Hall, Staines, Surrey, England, UK – courtroom in India

Patna, Bihar, India – Champaran farming riots

Porbandar, Gujarat, India – Gandhi's birthplace

Powis Road, Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK

Pune, Maharashtra, India – South African mosque - Imperial theatre protest

Punjab, India

Rajasthan, India

Rajpath, Delhi, India – funeral parade

Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi, India - funeral parade

Red Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK – studio

Staines, Surrey, England, UK

UK

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India – railway scenes

West Bengal, India
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Academy Awards

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Actor in a Leading Role – Ben Kingsley

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Art Direction-Set Decoration – Stuart Craig, Robert W. Laing & Michael Seirton

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Cinematography – Billy Williams & Ronnie Taylor

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Costume Design – John Mollo & Bhanu Athaiya

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Director – Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Film Editing – John Bloom

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Picture – Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won Oscar Award Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen – John Briley

1983 –Nominated Oscar Award Best Makeup – Tom Smith

1983 –Nominated Oscar Award Best Music, Original Score – Ravi Shankar & George Fenton

1983 –Nominated Oscar Award Best Sound – Gerry Humphreys, Robin O'Donoghue, Jonathan Bates & Simon Kaye

American Cinema Editors, USA

1983 – Won Eddie Award Best Edited Feature Film – John Bloom

Awards of the Japanese Academy

1984 – Nominated Award of the Japanese Academy Best Foreign Language Film

BAFTA Awards

1983 – Won BAFTA Film Award Best Actor – Ben Kingsley

1983 – Won BAFTA Film Award Best Direction – Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won BAFTA Film Award Best Film – Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actress – Rohini Hattangadi

1983 – Won BAFTA Film Award Most Outstanding Newcomer to Leading Film Roles – Ben Kingsley

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Cinematography – Billy Williams & Ronnie Taylor

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Costume Design – John Mollo & Bhanu Athaiya

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film Editing – John Bloom

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Make Up Artist – Tom Smith

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Production Design/Art Direction – Stuart Craig

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Score
Ravi Shankar – George Fenton

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Screenplay – John Briley

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Sound – Jonathan Bates, Simon Kaye, Gerry Humphreys & Robin O'Donoghue

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor – Edward Fox

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor – Roshan Seth

1983 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actress – Candice Bergen

British Society of Cinematographers

1982 – Won Best Cinematography Award – Ronnie Taylor & Billy Williams

David di Donatello Awards

1983 – Won David Award Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) – Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won David Award Best Producer - Foreign Film (Migliore Produttore Straniero)
Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won European David Award - Richard Attenborough

Directors Guild of Great Britain

1983 – Won DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures – Richard Attenborough & David Tomblin (assistant director) (plaque)

Evening Standard British Film Awards

1984 – Won Evening Standard British Film Award Best Actor – Ben Kingsley – also for Betrayal (1983)

Golden Globes, USA

1983 – Won Golden Globe Award Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama – Ben Kingsley

1983 – Won Golden Globe Award Best Director - Motion Picture – Richard Attenborough

1983 – Won Golden Globe Award Best Foreign Film – UK.

1983 – Won Golden Globe Award Best Screenplay – Motion Picture – John Briley

1983 – Won Golden Globe Award New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male – Ben Kingsley

Grammy Awards

1984 – Nominated Grammy Award Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special – Ravi Shankar & George Fenton

Guild of German Art House Cinemas

1985 – Won Guild Film Award – Gold Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film) – Richard Attenborough

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

1983 – Won Silver Ribbon Best Director – Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) – Richard Attenborough

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

1983 – Won KCFCC Award Best Actor – Ben Kingsley

London Critics Circle Film Awards

1984 – Won ALFS Award Actor of the Year – Ben Kingsley

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1982 – Won LAFCA Award Best Actor – Ben Kingsley

National Board of Review, USA

1982 – Won NBR Award Best Actor – Ben Kingsley

1982 – Won NBR Award Best Film

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

1982 – Won NYFCC Award Best Actor – Ben Kingsley

1982 – Won NYFCC Award Best Film
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Candice Bergen and Ben Kingsley in Gandhi Rohini Hattangady in Gandhi Ben Kingsley and Ian Charleson in Gandhi

Ben Kingsley
Ben
Kingsley
Candice
Bergen
Edward
Fox
John Gielgud
John
Gielgud
Trevor
Howard
John
Mills
Martin Sheen
Martin
Sheen
Ian Charleson Athol
Fugard
Gunter Maria
Halmer

Rohini
Hattangady
Roshaw
Seth
Saeed
Jaffrey
Geraldine
James
Alyque
Padamsee
Roshan
Seth

Approximately 400,000 extras were used in the funeral scene, the most for any film according to Guinness World Records.

Ben Kingsley looked so much like Mohandas K. Gandhi, many natives thought him to be Gandhi's ghost.

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Gandhi: Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.

Gandhi: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Gandhi: I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you.
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Gandhi is shown to have two sons and a daughter. In reality Gandhi only had sons.
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