![]() ![]() Unsurprised that Vogler knows this melody but not his, Salieri recounts how, ever since he remembered, he desired to be a composer, much to his father's chagrin. Salieri then plays Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, which Vogler knows perfectly well. Salieri plays two of his melodies with Vogler admitting he doesn't know them. A young priest, Father Vogler approaches Salieri for elaboration on Salieri's confession. In the winter of 1823, Antonio Salieri is committed to a psychiatric hospital after barring his doors and having a suicide attempt, during which his servants overhear him confess to murdering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it 53rd on its 100 Years. As of 2023, it was the most recent film to have more than one nomination in the Academy Award for Best Actor category. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, Amadeus was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, including eight Academy Awards (including the Academy Award for Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Directors Guild of America award. Upon release, it received widespread acclaim and was a box office hit, grossing over $90 million. Abraham and Hulce were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Abraham winning.Īmadeus was released by Orion Pictures on September 19, 1984, thirteen days following its world premiere in Los Angeles on September 6, 1984. Murray Abraham as Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart. The film follows a fictional rivalry between Mozart and Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack. Set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, the film is a fictionalized story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the time he left Salzburg, described by its writer as a "fantasia on the theme of Mozart and Salieri". Amadeus is a 1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play Amadeus.
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