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Best Dramatic Presentation | 1973 | George Roy
Best Science Fiction Film | 1973
1972 | George Roy
Most Promising Newcomer Male | 1973
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | 1973 | Stephen
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1973 | George Roy
Budget 3,200,000 USD
Although Vonnegut's renowned refrain, "And so it goes", appears over 100 times in the novel, it it is not uttered even once in the movie version.
The character of Howard Campbell Jr. appears in the film and speaks to the American P.O.W.s before the bombing of Dresden. Vonnegut wrote an entire novel about this character called "Mother Night", later made into a film by Keith Gordon starring Nick Nolte as this same character.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of the book this film was adapted from, was a prisoner of war in World War II. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division on December 22, 1944, and used these experiences in his novel when Billy Pilgrim is captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. Vonnegut also lived through the bombing of Dresden and used that experience in the book.
Author Kurt Vonnegut would later write: "I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel"
In an early scene when Billy's mother is visiting him in the hospital, she is talking about Billy's Dresden experience to Elliot Rosewater - the title character from Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel, "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater", and a character who was later portrayed by Ken Hudson Campbell in 'Breakfast of Champions (1999)'.
"Billy Pilgrim: [in his sleep] You guys go on without me. I'll be alright. Prof. Rumfoord: All he does in his sleep is quit, surrender, and apologize. I could carve a better man out of a banana."
"Paul Lazzaro: That corporal. He'll get back home after the war. He'll be a big hero. Dames'll be climbin' all over him. Couple of years go by, and one day there's gonna be a knock on his door and there'll be this stranger. "Paul Lazzaro sent me," the stranger will say and then he'll pull out a gun and shoot his pecker off. Stranger will give him a couple of seconds to think about who Paul Lazzaro is and what life's gonna be like without a pecker. Then he'll shoot him once in the guts and walk away. Yes."
