UNTOUCHABLES

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Awards for "The Untouchables"(1987)

Academy Awards, 1988 USA

Best Supporting Actor Sean Connery

Best Costume DesignMarilyn Vance-Straker

Best Music, Original Score Ennio Morricone

Nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration:
William A. Elliott
Hal Gausman
Patrizia von Brandenstein

American Society of Cinematographers, USA 1988

Nomination for:
ASC Award Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
in Theatrical Releases:
Stephen H. Burum

Academy Awards, Britain, 1988

Film Award Best Score:Ennio Morricone

Nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Sean Connery
Best Costume Design Marilyn Vance-Straker
Best Production Design William A. Elliott

Golden Globes, USA 1988

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Sean Connery

Nomination: Best Original Score-Motion Picture:
Ennio Morricone

Grammy Awards 1988

Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score
Written for a Motion Picture or Television:
Ennio Morricone

UNTOUCHABLES TRIVIA

Robert De Niro, who played Al Capone, tracked down the real Capone's original tailors and had them
make him some identical clothing for the movie.

The set for Al Capone's personal barber shop at the Lexington Hotel included a number of small items
(cologne bottles, shaving brushes) that belonged to the real Al Capone.

Oscar Wallace and Jim Malone each take a drink
shortly before they are shot to death.

Bob Hoskins was originally signed to play Al Capone, but after most of the filming was completed,
he and director Brian De Palma decided that they were unhappy with the result.
Hoskins departed and was paid $200,000.

Albert H. Wolff, the last survivor of the real-life Untouchables, was a consultant to the film and helped
Kevin Costner with his portrayal of Eliot Ness.

The camera work in the scene where Elliot Ness is
in the airline is identical to a scene in Foreign Correspondent (1940).

References to Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925).

In the original script, the final gunfight had Ness
and George Stone battling Capone gunmen on a stopped train.
Brian DePalma conceived the gunfight on the steps in Chicago's Union Station
when Paramount decided that finding a 1930's period train was too expensive.

Trivia courtesy of Internet Movie Database

Closing lines:

Reporter: Word is they're going to repeal Prohibition. What'll you do then?
Eliot Ness: I think I'll have a drink.

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Received 2/17/00