DANCES WITH WOLVES by the cosensus

Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves was critically acclaimed and garnered a revitalization of the western genre. It won:

• 7 Academy awards (best: picture, director, adapted screenplay, film editing, cinematography, sound score) nominated for 12
• #75 and then #59 of two different AFI's top 100 list
• 3 Golden Globes (best: motion picture drama, screenplay, director)

INFORMATION

•  Based on Dances with Wolves (1988) Michael Blake
• Distributed at 1990
• Directed by Kevin Costner
• Adapted to screen by Michael Blake
• Cinematography by Dean Semler 
• Music by John Barry
• Distributed by Orion Pictures
• Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

COLLATED RATINGS
Rotten Tomatoes 80%
Metacritic 72%


FEATURED CRITICS
Roger Ebert 4/4 Stars, Sun Times - "A simple story magnificently told."
George Andrew , Time out  - "Once you're sucked into the leisurely narrative, it's hard to resist."
Richard Schickel Time Magazine - "As a director, Costner is alive to the sweep of the country and the expansive spirit of the western-movie tradition."
Peter Traverse, Rolling Stone - "Costner tells a personal story that never loses touch with the vast Western spaces encompassing and defining it. Dances With Wolves is an epic that breathes. And it's a beauty."
Sheila Benson 4/5 Stars, LA Times - "Dances With Wolves is a clear-eyed vision. Authentic as an Edward Curtis photograph, lyrical as a George Catlin oil or a Karl Bodmer landscape, this is a film with a pure ring to it."

BY THE NUMBERS

Budget = $22'000'000

Box Office = $424,208,848

Profit: Made 19.28 times its budget or 1928%, it was very succesful

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-- Ivan