In fact, it joined a select group of Best Picture Academy Award winners never to crack the box office top 5. The movie was not a commercial success, however, by certain standards. And then it went on to receive a total of eleven Academy Award nominations winning eight including Best Picture and Best Director. It’s not surprising to learn that no major studio was interested in financing a long biopic about a classical music composer, but AMADEUS got made. Just as Forman was bowled over by the stage version of AMADEUS, however, so was I by his Oscar-winning 1984 film. Not only am I not (necessarily) a fan of period movies, I also don’t like classical music. That’s exactly how I felt about the prospect of watching a nearly three-hour retelling of a composer’s life. In fact, he said he couldn’t think of anything more boring. Milos Forman was invited to see “Amadeus” on stage and dreaded the idea of watching a period piece about classical music.
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