🎬 Film
The Deer Hunter
This is this. This ain't something else. This is this.
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["Academy Award Best Picture","Academy Award Best Director (Michael Cimino)","Academy Award Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken)","Academy Award Best Film Editing","Academy Award Best Sound"]
About
The Deer Hunter (1978) is Michael Cimino\'s epic drama about three steelworkers (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage) whose lives are shattered by the Vietnam War. Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Nick — a young man broken by the Russian roulette scenes that became cinema\'s most harrowing. The film won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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Cast & Performance
Direction
Cast & Performance
Christopher Walken\'s Oscar-winning performance as Nick — a young man shattered by Vietnam and Russian roulette — remains one of cinema\'s most haunting roles.
Robert De Niro gives one of his finest performances as Michael — the stoic steel worker who witnesses his friends be destroyed by the war.
Direction
Michael Cimino directed and co-wrote The Deer Hunter — winning the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director for this landmark American war epic.