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A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda
Directed byCharles Crichton
Screenplay byJohn Cleese
Story by
  • John Cleese
  • Charles Crichton
Produced byMichael Shamberg
Starring
CinematographyAlan Hume
Edited byJohn Jympson
Music byJohn Du Prez
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • July 15, 1988 (1988-07-15) (United States)
  • October 14, 1988 (1988-10-14) (United Kingdom)
Running time
108 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[2]
Box office$62.5 million[3]

A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 British-American heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton from a screenplay by John Cleese. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin as a gang of diamond thieves who double-cross one another to find stolen diamonds hidden by the gang leader. A barrister (Cleese) becomes a main character as femme fatale Wanda (Curtis) uses him to locate the loot.

It was Crichton's last film.

Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[4] Cleese and Crichton received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay.[4] Crichton was nominated for Best Director.[4][5]

Cleese won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Palin won for Best Supporting Actor.[6][7] Curtis received a nomination for Best Leading Actress. Maria Aitken received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[8]

Cleese received a nomination for best actor and Curtis received a nomination for best Actress at the Golden Globes[9][10][11]

Another movie called Fierce Creatures came out in 1997. The same actors star in it but play different characters. It does not continue the story of A Fish Called Wanda.

  1. ↑ "A FISH Called Wanda (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 15, 1988. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "'A Fish Called Wanda' turns 30: an oral history of a comedy classic". SBS. April 2, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org.
  5. ↑ "Nominees & Winners for the 61st Academy Awards". Oscars.org. August 24, 2012. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Awards Database (1988)". Bafta.org.
  7. ↑ McCall, Douglas. "Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012, 2d ed." Google Books. July 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ "1989 Film Actress in a Supporting Role | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Fish Called Wanda, A". Goldenglobes.org. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ "The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1989)". Goldenglobes.org. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Jamie Lee Curtis". Goldenglobes.org. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013.
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