“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
Amadeus premiered in Westwood, CA on 6 September 1984 before wider US release 2 weeks later.
Based on the play by Peter Shaffer, the fictionalized biography of Mozart was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and received 8, including Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound (Mark Berger, Todd Boekelheide, Chris Newman, Thomas Scott), Best Art Direction (Karel Černý, Patrizia von Brandenstein), Best Costume Design (Theodor Pištěk), and Best Makeup (Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith).
