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Based On: On the Trail of the Assassins - Jim Garrison, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy - Jim Marrs

Studio:Warner Bros.
Director:Oliver Stone
Screenwriter:Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar
Story:A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Producer:A. Kitman Ho & Oliver Stone
Director of Photography:Robert Richardson
Art Director:Derek R. Hill
Editor:Joe Hutshing & Pietro Scalia
Cast:Kevin Costner (Jim Garrison)
 Tommy Lee Jones (Clay Shaw)
 Gary Oldman (Lee Harvey Oswald)
 Joe Pesci (David Ferrie)
 Sissy Spacek (Liz Garrison)
 Jack Lemmon (Jack Martin)
 Donald Sutherland (X)
Awards:Academy Awards, Won - Best Cinematography (Richardson), Best Film Editing (Hutshing, Scalia)/ Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jones), Best Director (Stone), Best Music Original Score (John Williams), Best Picture (Ho, Stone), Best Sound (Michael Minkler, Gregg Landaker, Tod A. Maitland), Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Stone, Sklar)
 American Cinema Editors, Won - Best Edited Film (Hutshing, Scalia)
 American Society of Cinematographers, Nominated - Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases (Richardson)
 Awards of the Japanese Academy, Won - Best Foreign Film
 BAFTA Awards, Won - Best Editing (Hutshing, Scalia), Best Sound (Maitland, Stateman, Wilhoit, Minkler, Landaker)/ Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jones), Best Adapted Screenplay (Stone, Sklar)
 Blue Ribbon Awards, Won - Best Foreign Film (Stone)
 Casting Society of America, Nominated - Best Casting for a Feature Film (Risa Bramon Garcia, Billy Hopkins, Heidi Levitt)
 Directors Guild of America, Nominated - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Stone)
 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Nominated - Best Motion Picture (Stone, Sklar)
 Empire Awards, Won - Movie Masterpiece (Stone)
 Golden Globes, Won - Best Director (Stone)/ Nominated - Best Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Costner), Best Screenplay (Stone, Sklar)
 Kinema Junpo Awards, Won - Best Foreign Language Film (Stone)
 MTV Movie Awards, Nominated - Best Movie
 Mainichi Film Concours, Won - Best Foreign Language Film (Stone), Reader's Choice Award (Stone)
 Writers Guild of America, Nominated - Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Stone, Sklar)
 Black & White, 189 minutes.