Midnight Express | film by Parker [1978] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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contribution by Stone

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  In Oliver Stone
  … for best adapted screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), which was based on the true story of a man brutally abused while imprisoned for drug smuggling in Turkey.
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discussed in biography

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  In Alan Parker
  … nomination for his next movie, Midnight Express (1978), a thriller about an American tourist arrested for drug possession in Turkey. He continued to earn praise for such varied films as the blockbuster Fame (1980), which centred on students studying at a high school for the performing arts in New York…
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Oscars to Stone for best adapted screenplay and Moroder for best original score, 1978

role of Hurt

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  In John Hurt
  …10 Rillington Place (1971) and Midnight Express (1978). For his magnetic performance in the latter as a heroin addict in a Turkish prison, he received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. After a memorable role in the science-fiction film…
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