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Moonstruck received critical acclaim upon release. [7] On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 89% based on reviews from 76 critics, with an average score of 7.8/10. The site's consensus read, "Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, Moonstruck is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's ...
Films with the most nominations without a single win: The Turning Point and The Color Purple (11 nominations each) Film with the most awards without winning Best Picture: Cabaret won eight Academy Awards from its ten nominations. It lost Best Picture to The Godfather.
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor, director and producer Nicolas Cage.. In 1987, Cage earned critical success with films such as the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987) and John Patrick Shanley's Moonstruck (1987) before earning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
Cher was a featured vocalist on one Best Original Song winning song (You Haven't Seen the Last of Me in 2011) and two nominated songs (Alfie in 1967 and After All in 1989), but those nominations are credited to the songwriters and not the performer.
Instead, if the song is “Kenough” to win, the award will go to Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (the latter of which won the Best Original Song award in 2019 for “Shallow” from A Star is Born).
He has also written for film; his second film, Moonstruck (1987), stars Nicolas Cage and Cher, and won three Academy Awards, including one for his screenplay. [9] In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."
The 84th Academy Awards did not feature performances from either nominated song ("Man or Muppet" from The Muppets or "Real in Rio" from Rio). [13] No reason for this was given by Oscar producers. This was only the third time that Best Original Song nominees were not performed (the others were in 1989 and 2010).
Birdman was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since Ordinary People (1980). [19] Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming Gravity. [20] At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. [21]