Editing David Lean (section)

====''A Passage to India''====
Lean then embarked on a project he had pursued since 1960, a film adaptation of ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' (1984), from [[E. M. Forster]]'s [[A Passage to India|1924 novel]] of colonial conflicts in British-occupied India. Entirely shot on location in the sub-continent, this became his last completed film. He rejected a draft by [[Santha Rama Rau]], responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself.<ref>{{cite web|last=McGee|first=Scott|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/152548|title=A Passage to India|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=13 September 2016|archive-date=30 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330035245/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/152548%7C0/A-Passage-to-India.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, Lean also edited the film with the result that his three roles in the production (writer, editor, director) were given equal status in the credits.<ref>[[Walter Kerr|Kerr, Walter]] (1985). [https://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30A17F8355D0C748DDDAA0894DD484D81 "Films are made in the Cutting Room"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 17 March 1985. Online version retrieved 15 November 2007.</ref>

Lean recruited long-time collaborators for the cast and crew, including Maurice Jarre (who won another Academy Award for the score), Alec Guinness in his sixth and final role for Lean, as an eccentric Hindu Brahmin, and [[John Box]], the production designer for ''Dr. Zhivago''. Reversing the critical response to ''Ryan's Daughter'', the film opened to universally enthusiastic reviews; the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and Lean himself nominated for three Academy Awards in [[Academy Award for Best Director|directing]], [[Academy Award for Film Editing|editing]], and [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|writing]]. His female star, in the complex role of a confused young British woman who falsely accuses an Indian man of attempted rape, gained Australian actress [[Judy Davis]] her first Academy nomination. [[Peggy Ashcroft]], as the sensitive Mrs. Moore, won the Oscar for best supporting actress, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win that award. According to Roger Ebert, it is "one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-passage-to-india-1984|title=A Passage to India movie review (1984)|last=Ebert|first=Roger|website=www.rogerebert.com|language=en|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=9 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509053520/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-passage-to-india-1984|url-status=live}}</ref>