Best Motion Picture of the Year

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THE READER

Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Anthony Minghella. He was previously nominated for:

  • THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) -- Nominee, Writing (Adapted)
  • THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) -- Winner, Directing
  • THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) -- Nominee, Writing (Adapted)

This is the seventh Academy Award nomination for Sydney Pollack. He was previously nominated for:

  • MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) -- Nominee, Best Picture
  • OUT OF AFRICA (1985) -- Winner, Directing
  • OUT OF AFRICA (1985) -- Winner, Best Picture
  • TOOTSIE (1982) -- Nominee, Directing
  • TOOTSIE (1982) -- Nominee, Best Picture
  • THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (1969) -- Nominee, Directing

This is the second Academy Award nomination for Donna Gigliotti. She was previously nominated for:

  • SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) -- Winner, Best Picture

This is the first Academy Award nomination for Redmond Morris.

FILM SYNOPSIS

In late 1950s Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins an affair with Hanna, a woman in her mid-thirties. Hanna's past contains a dark secret, however, the revelation of which, in the decades following the period of his first experience with love, will both shock Michael and force him to confront his country's history.

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