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Based On Novel Or Book | Spirituality
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Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1974 | Neil
Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | 1974 | Neil
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 1974 | Neil
Best Film | 1976
Best Edited Feature Film | 1974
In many in-flight shots, the seagulls are actually very realistic-looking radio-controlled gliders built by model aviation pioneer Mark Smith.
The soundtrack album with music by Neil Diamond was hugely successful. It reached Gold level sales in Germany and the UK, Platinum in France, and 2x Platinum in the US and Canada. The sale of the soundtrack album made a far greater profit than showings of the film (which did only very little more that recoup production costs).
Richard Bach's novella of the same title, on which the film is based, was a huge bestseller. Over a million copies had been printed by 1972, and it topped the New York Times Best Seller list for 38 weeks in the early 1970s.
The song "I've Been This Way Before" from Neil Diamond's 1974 album, 'Serenade', was originally written for this film. Diamond had planned it to be the closing song of the film, but he was unable to complete it in time for it to be included.
The film was the subject of several lawsuits. Author Richard D. Bach sued director Hall Bartlett before the film's release. Bach's contract gave him final cut rights, and he insisted on major changes to the film's story before it was released into theaters. (Interestingly, Bach is not acknowledged as the author of the original book in the film's credits.) Neil Diamond sued Paramount Studios for cutting too much of his music from the film's soundtrack, and was angry when composer Lee Holdridge requested a shared credit over the music. Director Ovady Julber also sued Bartlett, claiming the movie plagiarized his short black-and-white experimental film "La Mer" (c. 1932-1936).
"Jonathan: You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now - and nothing can stand in your way!"
"Jonathan: The only true law is that which sets us free."
