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Best Picture | 1982 | David
Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1982 | Colin
Best Costume Design | 1982 | Milena
Best Music Original Score | 1982 | Vangelis
Best Foreign Film | 1982
Best Costume Design | 1982 | Milena
Best Film | 1982 | David
Best Supporting Artist | 1982 | Ian
Score | 2021 | Vangelis
Best Cinematographer | 1981 | David
1981 | Hugh
1981 | Ian
Foreign Film Auslndischer Film | 1984 | Hugh
Best Director | 1982 | Hugh
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1982 | Ian
Best Film Editing | 1982 | Terry
Best Direction | 1982 | Hugh
Best Cinematography | 1982 | David
Best Sound | 1982 | Bill
Best Editing | 1982 | Terry
Best Production DesignArt Direction | 1982 | Roger
Best Screenplay | 1982 | Colin
Best Supporting Artist | 1982 | Nigel
1982 | Vangelis
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1982 | Hugh
Best Foreign Language Film | 1983
1981 | David
Budget 5,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 58,972,904 USD
Eric Liddell was born in China, where his parents were missionaries. He returned as a missionary. During the Japanese occupation of China, he was taken into the Japanese Weihsien Internment Camp, where he died from a brain tumor just before the camp was liberated.
When Colin Welland completed his first draft, the only title he could think of was "Runners". Then, one Sunday evening he turned on BBC's religious music series Songs of Praise (1961), featuring the hymn "Jerusalem," with lyrics from a poem by William Blake. The chorus including the words "Bring me my chariot of fire". The writer leapt up to his feet and shouted to his wife, "I've got it, Pat! 'Chariots of Fire'!" (The "Jerusalem" hymn is featured at the beginning and end of the movie.)
In real life, Lord David Burghley (Lord Lindsay in this movie) was the first man to do the Great Court Run, not Harold Abrahams. It was changed because producer David Puttnam was a Socialist and did not want to show a Lord winning. It's one reason Lord Burghley did not allow his name to be used in the movie.
Although it received a standing ovation when shown in competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, this movie was mercilessly savaged by the French critics, because it called the French "the frogs" and "an unprincipled lot." In order to prevent the negative critical response from hurting its international distribution, Roger Ebert lobbied the other American critics in attendance to award it the "American Critics Prize", which they did in a 6-5 vote. This marks the only time in the sixty-year history of the festival that this award has been presented.
Lord Lindsay (Nigel Havers) was actually based upon Lord Burghley, who refused to cooperate with the filmmakers, and would not allow his name to be used in the production. Upon seeing the completed movie, however, Lord Burghley told the filmmakers that he regretted his earlier refusal to cooperate with the production.
"Eric Liddell: I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure."
"Eric Liddell: You came to see a race today. To see someone win. It happened to be me. But I want you to do more than just watch a race. I want you to take part in it. I want to compare faith to running in a race. It's hard. It requires concentration of will, energy of soul. You experience elation when the winner breaks the tape - especially if you've got a bet on it. But how long does that last? You go home. Maybe your dinner's burnt. Maybe you haven't got a job. So who am I to say, "Believe, have faith," in the face of life's realities? I would like to give you something more permanent, but I can only point the way. I have no formula for winning the race. Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. Jesus said, "Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. If with all your hearts, you truly seek me, you shall ever surely find me." If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race."
