Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies

Movie |

Courtroom | Spy

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  • Genre(s): Thriller, Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Steven Spielberg, Jessica Lichtner, Caroline Kaempfer, Jeremy Marks, Trevor Tavares See all Crew
  • Cast(s): Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 2h 21min
  • Music: Gary Rydstrom,Richard Hymns,Doc Kane,Chris Manning,Steve Slanec
  • Award(s): Oscar 2016 (Won)
    Oscar 2016 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Killers of the Flower Moon, Sanctuary
  • Story:
    During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
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7.6/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
Ratings

7.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

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Won
Oscar Award

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | 2016 | Mark

BAFTA Film Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

WFCC Award

Best Male Images in a Movie | 2015

Truly Moving Picture Award

(director) | 2015 | Steven

2015

AACTA International Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Movies for Grownups Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Saturn Award

Best Thriller Film | 2016

AFI Award

Movie of the Year | 2016

BMI Film Music Award

Film Music | 2016 | Thomas

David Award

Best Foreign Film Miglior Film Straniero | 2016 | Steven

Golden Trailer Award

Best Drama TV Spot | 2016

ALFS Award

Supporting Actor of the Year | 2016 | Mark

Golden Reel Award

Best Sound Editing Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film | 2016

NSFC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Sant Jordi Award

Best Actor in a Foreign Film Millor actor en pellcula estrangera | 2016 | Mark

Satellite Award

Best Art Direction Production Design | 2016 | Adam

BSFC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Hollywood Film Award

Cinematographer of the Year | 2015 | Janusz

Sound of the Year | 2015 | Gary

ICP Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

NBR Award

Top Films | 2015

NYFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

NYFCO Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Top Films of the Year | 2015

PFCS Award

Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 2015 | Mark

Best Original Score | 2015 | Thomas

TFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

VFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

VVFP Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

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Nominations
Oscar Award

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Original Score | 2016 | Thomas

Best Motion Picture of the Year | 2016 | Kristie Macosko

Best Writing Original Screenplay | 2016 | Joel

Best Achievement in Production Design | 2016 | Rena

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing | 2016 | Drew

Golden Globe Award

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 2016 | Mark

BAFTA Film Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2016 | Ethan

Best Sound | 2016 | Gary

Best Cinematography | 2016 | Janusz

Best Editing | 2016 | Michael

Best Production Design | 2016 | Bernhard

Best Original Music | 2016 | Thomas

Best Film | 2016 | Steven

Grammy Award

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | 2017 | Thomas

Best Instrumental Composition | 2017 | Thomas

Golden Eagle Award

Best Foreign Film | 2017 | Steven

WAFCA Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2015 | Ethan

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Kinema Junpo Award

Best Foreign Language Film | 2017 | Steven

Actor Award

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | 2016 | Mark

Movies for Grownups Award

Best Director | 2016 | Steven

EDA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

ASC Award

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases | 2016 | Janusz

AMPS Feature Film Award

Excellence in Sound for a Feature Film | 2016 | Andy

Palmarés blogos de oro Award

Best Supporting Actor Mejor Actor de Reparto | 2016 | Mark

Operators Award

Feature | 2016 | Mitch

Artios Award

Outstanding Achievement in Casting Big Budget Feature Drama | 2016

C.A.S. Award

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Live Action | 2016 | Chris

Cinema Bloggers Award

Best North American Film | 2016

Cinema for Peace Award

Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2016 | Steven

Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2016 | Steven

CEC Award

Best Foreign Film Mejor Pelcula Extranjera | 2016 | Steven

CinEuphoria Award

Best Film International Competition | 2016 | Steven

Critics Choice Award

Best Picture | 2016

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Best Director | 2016 | Steven

Best Original Screenplay | 2016 | Joel

Best Art Direction | 2016 | Adam

DFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Empire Award

Best Thriller | 2016

GAFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Best Original Screenplay | 2016 | Joel

Best Original Score | 2016 | Thomas

Gold Derby Film Award

Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Original Screenplay | 2016 | Joel

Production Design | 2016 | Adam

Golden Trailer Award

Best Drama | 2016

Film Award

Best Dubbing Direction | 2016

HFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

ICS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

INOCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

IFC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

LMGI Award

Outstanding Locations in a Period Film | 2016 | Jason

NCFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Best Original Screenplay | 2016 | Joel

OFTA Film Award

Best Picture | 2016 | Kristie Macosko

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 2016 | Ethan

Best Music Original Score | 2016 | Thomas

Best Production Design | 2016 | Adam

Best Sound Mixing | 2016 | Drew

PGA Award

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | 2016 | Kristie Macosko

Satellite Award

Best Motion Picture | 2016

Best Director | 2016 | Steven

Best Screenplay Original | 2016 | Joel

Best Film Editing | 2016 | Michael

Best Cinematography | 2016 | Janusz

Seattle Film Critics Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2016 | Mark

Camera Operator of the Year Award

Feature Film | 2016 | Mitch

The Operators Award

Feature Film | 2016 | Mitch

VES Award

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature | 2016 | Gerd

World Soundtrack Award

Film Composer of the Year For and | 2016

Film Composer of the Year | 2016 | Thomas

WGA (Screen) Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2016 | Joel

ACCA Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2015 | Joel

BOFCA Award

Best Film | 2015

BSC Award

Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film | 2015 | Janusz

CFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Best Original Screenplay | 2015 | Ethan

DFWFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

FFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

GoldSpirit s Award

Best Dramatic Score | 2015 | Thomas

HMMA Award

Best Original Score Feature Film | 2015 | Thomas

IFJA Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2015 | Ethan

KCFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

LAFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

OFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

PCC Award

Best Mystery or Thriller Film | 2015

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Best Screenplay | 2015 | Joel

Best Score | 2015 | Thomas

PFCS Award

Best Picture | 2015

Best Original Screenplay | 2015 | Joel

PFS Award

Expos | 2015

SDFCS Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Best Editing | 2015 | Michael

Best Production Design | 2015 | Adam

SFFCC Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

Best Production Design | 2015 | Bernhard

Screenplay Competition Award

Best Original Screenplay | 2015 | Joel

SEFCA Award

Best Picture | 2015

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

SLFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2015 | Mark

BOX OFFICE

Budget 40,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 165,478,348 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Soviet agent Rudolf Ivanovich Abel sent and received coded messages that were hidden inside such things as hollow U.S. coins, bolts, and batteries. The FBI first became aware of Abel's activities in 1953, when Abel's incompetent junior colleague Reino Hayhanen carelessly spent a hollow nickel that ended up in the hands of a paperboy. The Brooklyn newsboy who got the nickel thought it felt too light. He dropped the nickel on the sidewalk, and it popped open, revealing a piece of microfilm with a coded message inside. After Hayhanen's blunders, Abel lost confidence in him and sent him back to the U.S.S.R., which would not have gone well for Hayhanen, who defected in 1957. He showed the FBI how to crack the code and it was Hayhanen who gave up Rudolf Abel. The "Hollow Nickel Case" was also dramatized in The FBI Story (1959).

Rudolf Ivanovich Abel's seemingly incongruous accent was accurate. Abel was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Russian parents and spent some of his early years in Scotland. He returned to Moscow in his late teens, but never lost his accent when speaking English.

For the scene outside the courtroom, the photographers were initially instructed to put their used flashbulbs, which are extremely hot to the touch, in their pockets. One of the background actors happened to be the historian of the New York Press Photographers Association. He told executive producer and first assistant director Adam Somner that, at the time, photographers would have ejected the bulbs onto the floor. After several takes, noticing the bulbs strewn across the floor, Steven Spielberg decided to shoot the low-angle view of the principals walking through them.

In an interview with the International Spy Museum, the son of Francis Gary Powers, Francis Gary Powers, Jr., indicated that his father was not told to commit suicide if shot down, unlike the depiction in the movie. Instead, it was given as an option in case physical torture had been involved, allowing the pilots to use a poison pin if the pilots chose to commit suicide. He also indicated that the Soviets found the pin on a third strip search, but Powers warned them not to touch it. The Soviets tried the pin on a dog and the dog died a few moments later.

For six days of shooting on the Glienicke Bridge and surrounding streets, the production firm had to pay 10,552.13 EUR (about $11,428.96 U.S.) to the local district, the city of Potsdam, and the German government. It took one person five months to get the all the necessary permits from 23 different agencies.

Popular Dialogues

"James Donovan: I have a mandate to serve you. Nobody else does. Quite frankly, everybody else has an interest in sending you to the electric chair. Rudolf Abel: All right... James Donovan: You don't seem alarmed. Rudolf Abel: Would it help?"

"Rudolf Abel: Well, the boss isn't always right. But, he's always the boss."

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