Out Of Africa (1985)

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack (Producer)

Kim Jorgensen (Executive Producer)

Anna Cataldi & Judity Thurman (Associate Producers)

Karen Blixen (books "Out of Africa", "Shadows on the Grass" and "Letters from Africa"- as Isak Dinesen)

Kurt Luedtke (screenplay)

Judith Thurman (book "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller")

Errol Trzebinski (book "Silence Will Speak")

John Barry

David Watkin

Pembroke J. Herring, Sheldon Kahn, Fredric Steinkamp & William Steinkamp

Mirage Enterprises

USA

English

Swahili

England, UK - Danish winter scene

Kenya

Shaba National Game Reserve, Kenya

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK - studio

The Academy Awards

1986 Won Oscar Best Art Direction – Set Decoration Stephen B. Grimes, Josie MacAvin

1986 Won Oscar Best Cinematography David Watkin

1986 Won Oscar Best Director Syndey Pollack

1986 Won Oscar Best Music, Original Score John Barry

1986 Won Oscar Best Picture Sydney Pollack

1986 Won Oscar Best Sound Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold & Peter Handford

1986 Won Oscar Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from another Medium Kurt Leudtke

1986 Nominated Oscar Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role Klaus Maria Brandauer

1986 Nominated Oscar Award Best Actress in a Leading Role Meryl Streep

1986 Nominated Oscar Award Best Costume Design Milena Canonero

1986 Nominated Oscar Award Best Film Editing Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke J. Herring & Sheldon Kahn


American Cinema Editors, USA

1986 Nominated Eddie Award Best Edited Feature Film Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke J. Herring & Sheldon Kahn


Awards of the Japanese Academy

1987 Nominated Award of the Japanese Academy Best Foreign Language Film


BAFTA Awards

1987 Won BAFTA Award Best Cinematography David Watkin

1987 Won BAFTA Award Best Screenplay Adapted Kurt Luedtke

1987 Won BAFTA Award Best Sound Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford & Chris Jenkins

1987 Nominated BAFTA Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role Klaus Maria Brandauer

1987 Nominated BAFTA Award Best Actress Meryl Streep

1987 Nominated BAFTA Award Best Costume Design Milena Canonero

1987 Nominated BAFTA Award Best Score John Barry


BMI Film & TV Awards

1987 Won BMI Film Music Award - John Barry


British Society of Cinematographers:

1986 Won Best Cinematography Award David Watkin


César Awards, France

1987 Nominated César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) Sydney Pollack


DVD Exclusive Awards:

2001 Nominated Video Premiere Award Best DVD Audio Commentary Sydney Pollack for: the Collector's Edition


David di Donatello Awards

1986 Won David Award Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniero) Meryl Streep

1986 Won David Award Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) Sydney Pollack


Directors Guild of America, USA

1986 Nominated DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Sydney Pollack


Golden Globes, USA

1986 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Drama

1986 Won Golden Globe Best Original Score Motion Picture John Barry

1986 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Klaus Maria Brandauer

1986 Nominated Golden Globe Best Director Motion Picture Sydney Pollack

1986 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama Meryl Streep

1986 Nominated Golden Globe Best Screenplay Motion Picture Kurt Luedtke


Golden Screen Award, Germany

1986 Won Golden Screen


Guild of German Art House Cinemas

1987 Won Guild Film Award Gold Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film) Sydney Pollack


Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists:

1986 Won Silver Ribbon Award Best Director Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) Sydney Pollack


Joseph Plateau Awards

1986 Won Joseph Plateau Award Best Score


Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

1986 Won KCFCC Award Best Actress Meryl Streep

1986 Won KCFCC Award Best Supporting Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer


London Critics Circle Film Awards

1987 Won Special Achievement Award John Barry for the music


Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1985 Won LAFCA Award Best Actress Meryl Streep

1985 Won LAFCA Award Best Cinematography David Watkin


National Board of Review, USA

1985 Won NBR Award Best Supporting Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer


Writers Guild of America, USA

1985 Won WGA Award (Screen) Best Screenplay Based on Material from another Medium Kurt Luedtke

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Robert Redford

Meryl Streep

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Michael Kitchen

Malick Bowens

Joseph Thiaka

Stephen Kinyanjui

Michael Gough

Suzanna Hamilton

Rachel Kempson

Graham Crowden

Leslie Phillips

Shane Rimmer

Mike Bugara

Job Seda

Mohammed Umar

Donal McCann

Kenneth Mason

Tristram Jellinek

Stephen B. Grimes

The movie is based on the life and writings of Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who, despairing that she would be single forever, married her lover's brother, moved out to Kenya in East Africa, ran a coffee plantation on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and later, when the plantation was bankrupt and the dream was finished, wrote books about her experiences under the name Isak Dinesan.

Audrey Hepburn was originally offered the role of Karen.

The film's production designers used a great deal of Dinesen's own furniture, which she never sent back to Denmark after departing Kenya.

Leslie Phillips developed considerable kidney trouble, due to dehydration, during filming.

To this day (19 March 2007), Karen Blixen remains the only woman who has ever been invited to drink in the men's bar at the Muthaiga Country Club. Even though the club has relaxed certain rules, even allowing men without jacket and tie in certain parts of the club, the rule for men only remains. Another bar allows women.

Actual descendants of the Kikuyu tribe who were described in the book appeared in the film. It was also filmed near the actual Ngong Hills outside Nairobi in Kenya.

Industrial strength fire extinguishers were used to keep lions at bay.

Submit Interesting Facts

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

I'm with you because I choose to be with you. I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don't ask me to do that. I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life.

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The boom mike is visible in the plants.

At the New Years Eve party, the drummer uses contemporary nylon-tipped sticks.

When Denys Finch-Hatton brings a Record Player to Karen's home he lowers his hand and the sound volume decreases. Later on, in the scene where Finch-Hatton plays Mozart to monkeys he starts the Record Player by means of a cord that starts the playing. Since the events took place in 1911-13, such actions where not possible in mechanical "Gramophones". There was no electricity in the jungle and the machines were powered by a hand-crank as were the watches and volume was set at recording time, not at playback.

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"Out of Africa" is a great movie to look at, breathtakingly filmed n location. It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology. Reviewed by: Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times.

With the exception of Miss Streep's performance, the pleasures of ''Out of Africa'' are all peripheral - David Watkin's photography, the landscapes, the shots of animal life -all of which would fit neatly into a National Geographic layout. Reviewed by: Vincent Canby of The New York Times.

Watching Out of Africa, one gets a sense of stasis and isolation - as if the events occurring are happening outside of time and space, in some small corner of the world untouched by the march of human progress. Reviewed by: James Berardinelli of Reel Views.

Parents need to know that this engrossing period drama based on the biography of Danish baroness and her life in 1900s Africa offers lots of historical interest and sweeping romance, but tweens and younger may have trouble keeping interested through this long film. There’s no swearing and nudity, though the film certainly treads on mature subjects. There’s a marriage of convenience, and one character catches syphilis from her philandering husband, which renders her infertile but doesn’t destroy her. Some scenes depict animals being whipped; discussions about war hover over a section of the film; and there are a number of deaths to illness and accidents. Reviewed by: Common Sense Media.

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