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Best Actor | 1981 | John Hurt
Best Production DesignArt Direction | 1981 | Stuart Craig
Best Film | 1981 | Jonathan Sanger
Best Foreign Film | 1982 | David Lynch
1981 | David Lynch
Best Foreign Film Meilleur film tranger | 1982 | David Lynch
1982 | Freddie Francis
1980 | Freddie Francis
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1981 | John Hurt
Best Director | 1981 | David Lynch
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1981 | Christopher De Vore
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration | 1981 | Hugh Scaife
Best Picture | 1981 | Jonathan Sanger
Best Music Original Score | 1981 | John Morris
Best Costume Design | 1981 | Patricia Norris
Best Film Editing | 1981 | Anne V. Coates
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama | 1981 | John Hurt
Best Director Motion Picture | 1981 | David Lynch
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1981 | Christopher De Vore
Best Direction | 1981 | David Lynch
Best Screenplay | 1981 | Christopher De Vore
Best Cinematography | 1981 | Freddie Francis
Best Editing | 1981 | Anne V. Coates
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special | 1982 | John Morris
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | 1981 | Christopher De Vore
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1981 | David Lynch
Best Cinematography | 1981 | Freddie Francis
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 26,000,000 USD
This movie was executive produced by Mel Brooks, who was responsible for hiring writer and director David Lynch, and obtaining permission to film in black-and-white. He deliberately left his name off of the credits, as he knew that people would get the wrong idea about the movie if they saw his name on the movie, given his fame as a satirist.
David Lynch was working as a roofer at the time he was offered the chance to direct.
The Elephant Man make-up took seven to eight hours to apply each day, and two hours to remove. Sir John Hurt would arrive on the set at 5:00 a.m., and shoot from noon until 10:00 p.m. Because of the strain on the actor, he worked alternate days. Make-up artist Wally Schneiderman described it as "one of the hardest pictures I had to do. Everything was so precise. There were 14 pieces, not including the head, and they had to be applied exactly, every day for continuity. You couldn't afford to make a mistake."
When Paramount Pictures studio executives were shown a cut of this movie, they wanted the opening and closing surrealist sequences to be cut. Executive producer Mel Brooks, according to producer Stuart Cornfeld, said to them: "We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
Joseph "John" Merrick was a very intelligent and well-read gentleman. He loved to read and acted out scenes from pantomimes that he was taken to see. He often ended his correspondence to well wishers by quoting an Isaac Watts verse: "'Tis true my form is something odd, But blaming me is blaming God. Could I create myself anew, I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span. I would be measured by the soul, The mind's the standard of the man." ~ Isaac Watts 1674-1748.
"John Merrick: I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"
"[last lines] Merrick's Mother: Never. Oh, never. Nothing will die. The stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beats. Nothing will die."
