Editing The Elephant Man (1980 film) (section)

===Accolades===
{{Main|List of accolades received by The Elephant Man}}
''The Elephant Man'' was nominated for eight [[Academy Awards]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=David Lynch – Chapter 2: The Elephant Man and Dune – An Auteur In Hollywood|url=http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/lynch/elephant_man_dune.html|access-date=2017-11-23|website=The British Film Resource}}</ref> tying ''[[Raging Bull]]'' at the [[53rd Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Actor in a Leading Role]] (Hurt),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/18/movies/elephant-man-and-bull-up-for-8-oscars-each.html|title='Elephant Man' and 'Bull' Up for 8 Oscars Each|last1=Harmetz|first1=Aljean|date=February 18, 1981|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 23, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Art Direction-Set Decoration]] ([[Stuart Craig]], [[Robert Cartwright]], [[Hugh Scaife]]), [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]], [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Music: Original Score]], and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]].<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15593/The-Elephant-Man/awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412175700/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15593/The-Elephant-Man/awards |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 12, 2009 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009 |title=The Elephant Man |access-date=December 31, 2008}}</ref> However, it did not win any.

Industry experts were appalled that the film was not going to be honoured for its make-up effects when the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] announced its nominations at the time. A letter of protest was sent to the academy's Board of Governors requesting to give the film an honorary award. The academy refused, but in response to the outcry, they decided to give the make-up artists their own category. A year later, the [[Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling|Academy Award for Best Makeup]] category was introduced with ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'' as its first recipient.<ref name="AFI"/><ref>{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Independent]] | title=The Elephant Man | first=Roger |last=Clarke | date=March 2, 2007 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3735317.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104010345/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3735317.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 4, 2012}}</ref>

It won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Film]], and other [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA Awards]] for Best Actor (Hurt) and Best Production Design, and was nominated for four others: Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing.

The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]:
** John Merrick: "I am not an animal! I am a human being. I am a man." – Nominated<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313150620/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf |archive-date=March 13, 2011 |access-date=2016-07-30 |website=American Film Institute}}</ref>