Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Saving Private Ryan
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Accolades=== At the [[56th Golden Globe Awards]] in 1999, ''Saving Private Ryan'' won [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture β Drama|Best Drama]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (Spielberg), and was nominated for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture β Drama|Best Drama Actor]] (Hanks), [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] (Williams), and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] (Rodat).<ref name="AwardsGG" /><ref name="AwardsGG2" /> At the [[71st Academy Awards]], ''Saving Private Ryan'' won [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (Spielberg), [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] (KamiΕski), [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]] (Kahn), [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]] ([[Gary Rydstrom]], [[Gary Summers]], [[Andy Nelson (sound engineer)|Andy Nelson]], [[Ron Judkins|Ronald Judkins]]), and [[Academy Award for Best Sound Editing|Best Sound Effects Editing]] (Rydstrom and Richard Hymns) while it was nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] (Hanks), [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] (Rodat), [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music]] (Williams), [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]] (Sanders and [[Lisa Dean Kavanaugh]]), and [[Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling|Best Makeup]] ([[Lois Burwell]], [[Conor O'Sullivan (make-up artist)|Conor O'Sullivan]], [[Daniel C. Striepeke]]).<ref name="AwardsAcademy"/> ''Saving Private Ryan''{{'}}s unexpected loss of [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] to ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' is seen as one of the biggest upsets in the awards history and led to DreamWorks executives accusing its producers, [[Miramax]], of "overly aggressive campaigning".{{efn|Attributed to multiple references:<ref name="ColliderAccurate"/><ref name="AwardsTimeSnub"/><ref name="AwardsMCSnub"/><ref name="EWSnub"/><ref name="DOGMiramax"/>}} A 2015 poll of Academy voters suggested that, given another opportunity, they would have voted ''Saving Private Ryan'' as Best Picture.<ref name="AwardsTHRAcademy"/> At the [[52nd British Academy Film Awards]], ''Saving Private Ryan'' won [[BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects|Best Special Effects]] and [[BAFTA Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]], and was nominated for [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]], [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]] (Spielberg), and [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]] (Hanks).<ref name="AwardBaftas"/> At the [[25th Saturn Awards]], it won [[Saturn Award for Best Action or Adventure Film|Best Action, Adventure, or Thriller Film]].<ref name="AwardsSaturnWired"/> The [[3rd Golden Satellite Awards]] also earned the film [[Satellite Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]] (Kahn), and a nomination for [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor β Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor]] (Sizemore),<ref name="AwardsSatellite"/> as well as [[Empire Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (Spielberg) and [[Empire Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] (Hanks) at the [[4th Empire Awards|Empire Awards]].<ref name="AwardEmpire1"/><ref name="AwardEmpire2"/> ''Saving Private Ryan'' also won awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement ([[Directors Guild of America]], Spielberg),<ref name="AwardDGA"/> Motion Picture Producer of the Year ([[PGA Awards]], Spielberg, Bryce, Gordon, and Levinsohn),<ref name="AwardsPGA"/> Best Casting ([[Casting Society of America]], Denise Chamian),<ref name="AwardCSA"/> Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture ([[Grammy Awards]], Williams),<ref name="AwardGrammy"/> Best Sound Editing for Dialogue ([[Motion Picture Sound Editors]], Hymns, Rydstrom, Sandina Bailo-Lape, Ethan Van der Ryn, Teresa Eckton, Frank Eulner Karen Wilson, Larry Oatfield, and Bruce Lacey), and Sound Effects (Hymns, Rydstrom, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Larry Singer, Ewa Sztompke Oatfield, Sara Bolder, Denise Whiting, and Thomas Whiting)<ref name="AwardMPSE"/> and Best of Show - Audiovisual ([[Key Art Awards]]).<ref name="AwardKeyArt"/> In 2014, the United States [[Library of Congress]] selected ''Saving Private Ryan'' to be preserved in the [[National Film Registry]] as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="FilmRegistry"/>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Saving Private Ryan
(section)
Add topic