Download Waltz With Bashir Movie Now ' title='Download Waltz With Bashir Movie Now ' />WELCOME to Animation Europe, the first site dedicated to producers, distributors, investors and anyone else interested in film and TV animation in Europe. The leading information resource for the entertainment industry. Find industry contacts talent representation. Manage your photos, credits, more. Amadeus film Wikipedia. Amadeus is a 1. 98. American period drama film directed by Milo Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play Amadeus. The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Download Waltz With Bashir Movie Now ' title='Download Waltz With Bashir Movie Now ' />Mozarts music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the movie. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II, and his jealous vendetta against his younger rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The film was nominated for 5. Academy Awards including Best Picture, four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Directors Guild of America DGA award. As of 2. 01. 6, it is the most recent film to have more than one nomination in the Academy Award for Best Actor category. In 1. 99. 8, the American Film Institute ranked Amadeus 5. Years. 1. 00 Movies list. An elderly Antonio Salieri F. Murray Abraham confesses to the murder of his former colleague, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tom Hulce and attempts to kill himself by slitting his throat. Two servants take him to a mental asylum where a priest, Father Vogler Richard Frank, implores him to confess. Salieri recounts how, even in his youth, he desired to be a composer, much to the chagrin of his father. He prays to God that, if he will make Salieri a famous composer, he will in return promise his faithfulness. Soon after, his father dies, which Salieri takes as a sign that God has accepted his vow. He is educated in Vienna and becomes court composer to Emperor Joseph II Jeffrey Jones. Mozart arrives in Vienna to perform at the request of his employer, the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg Nicholas Kepros. Salieri attends the performance to meet Mozart, discovers that Mozart is obscene and immature, and yet Salieri finds Mozarts talent to be transcendent. The Emperor desires to commission Mozart to write an opera and, despite the reservations of his advisers Charles Kay, Patrick Hines, Jonathan Moore, summons him to the palace. Mozart happily accepts the job, much to the annoyance of Salieri. Mozart premieres his finished opera to mixed reviews from the Emperor. Salieri suspects that Mozart has slept with the star, Caterina Cavalieri Christine Ebersole, despite his engagement to Constanze Weber Elizabeth Berridge. The Emperor desires that Mozart instruct his niece, Princess Elisabeth, in music, but Salieri discourages him from doing so. Constanze visits Salieri to persuade him to make the Emperor reconsider, but she is unsuccessful. Salieri is enraged that God has bestowed upon Mozart the talent he has so desperately desired and vows to destroy Mozart. Mozart, meanwhile, struggles to find work and begins drinking. His father, Leopold Mozart Roy Dotrice, comes to visit him in Vienna. Constanze and Mozart take Leopold to a masked party which Salieri also attends, where Mozart entertains the guests with musical antics. The New Thomas & Friends: Sodor`S Legend Of The Lost Treasure Movie more. Leopold disapproves of his sons hedonism and the family argues until Leopold leaves town. Salieri hires a young girl Cynthia Nixon to pose as the Mozarts maid while spying for him. She takes him to the Mozart residence, where he discovers that Mozart is working on an opera based on the play The Marriage of Figaro, which the Emperor has forbidden. When Mozart is summoned to court to explain, he manages to convince the Emperor to allow his opera to premiere, despite Salieri and the advisers attempts at sabotage. Messengers arrive in Vienna with news of Leopolds death, and in response a grief stricken Mozart pens Don Giovanni. Salieri recognizes the dead commander as symbolic of Leopold and hatches a plan. Wearing Leopolds party mask, Salieri visits Mozart and commissions a Requiem Mass. Salieri plots to kill Mozart once the piece is finished, then premiere it at Mozarts funeral, claiming the work as his own. At a parody of one of Mozarts own operas, Emanuel Schikaneder Simon Callow asks Mozart to write an opera for his theater. Mozart, desperate for money, obliges, despite Constanzes insistence that he finish the Requiem Mass. The couple fight and Constanze leaves with their young son, Karl. Mozart collapses during a performance of his finished work, The Magic Flute. Salieri takes him home and offers his assistance on the Requiem. Salieri transcribes Mozarts verbal commands, and they work through the night. The next morning, a gravely ill Mozart apologizes to Salieri for his previous behavior. A guilty Constanze returns home and locks the unfinished Requiem away, only to find that Mozart has died from overwork. Mozart is taken out of the city and unceremoniously buried in a mass grave. Having finished his tale, Salieri asks how a merciful God could destroy his own beloved just to keep a mediocrity like Salieri from sharing in his glory. As he is pushed down the hall in a wheelchair, Salieri declares himself the patron saint of mediocrities and mockingly absolves the other patients of their own inadequacies. Mozarts high pitched laugh is heard as the screen fades to black. ProductioneditIn his autobiography Beginning, Kenneth Branagh says that he was one of the finalists for the role of Mozart, but was dropped from consideration when Forman decided to make the film with an American cast. Hulce reportedly used John Mc. Enroes mood swings as a source of inspiration for his portrayal of Mozarts unpredictable genius. Meg Tilly was cast as Mozarts wife Constanze, but she tore a ligament in her leg the day before shooting started. She was replaced by Elizabeth Berridge. Simon Callow, who played Mozart in the original London stage production of Amadeus, was cast as Emanuel Schikaneder, the librettist of The Magic Flute. The film was shot on location in Prague, Krom, and Vienna. Notably, Forman was able to shoot scenes in the Count Nostitz Theatre in Prague, where Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito debuted two centuries before. Several other scenes were shot at the Barrandov Studios. Forman collaborated with American choreographer Twyla Tharp. ReceptioneditIn 1. Academy Awards, including the double nomination for Best Actor with Hulce and Abraham each being nominated for their portrayals of Mozart and Salieri, respectively. The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor Abraham, Best Director Forman, Costume Design Theodor Pitk, Adapted Screenplay Shaffer, Art Direction Karel ern, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Best Makeup, and Best Sound. The film was nominated for but did not win Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Amadeus, The English Patient, The Hurt Locker, The Artist, and Birdman are the only Best Picture winners never to enter the weekend box office top 5 after rankings began being recorded in 1. Amadeus peaked at 6 during its 8th weekend in theaters. Saul Zaentz produced both Amadeus and The English Patient. The film was nominated for six Golden Globes Hulce and Abraham were nominated together and won four, including awards to Forman, Abraham, Shaffer, and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture  Drama. Jeffrey Jones was nominated for Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor  Motion Picture Drama. Forman also received the Directors Guild of America Award for his work. At the end of the Oscar ceremony, Laurence Olivier came on stage to present the Oscar for Best Picture. As Olivier thanked the Academy for inviting him, he was already opening the envelope. Instead of announcing the nominees, he simply read, The winner for this is Amadeus. An AMPAS official quickly went onstage to confirm the winner and signaled that all was well, before Olivier then presented the award to producer Saul Zaentz. Olivier in his 7. Zaentz then thanked Olivier, saying it was an honour to receive the award from him,1. The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart and A Soldiers Story. Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for Best Original Music Score for his scoring of A Passage to India.