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internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievment that has had profound and lsting impact throughout the world.
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Director, the film also captured Oscar, for Cinematography, Film Editing Sound and Sound Effects Editing.
More that 70 critics (including those at Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics group in New York, Chicago, Dallas Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of The Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critic
internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievment that has had profound and lsting impact throughout the world.
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Director, the film also captured Oscar, for Cinematography, Film Editing Sound and Sound Effects Editing.
More that 70 critics (including those at Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics group in New York, Chicago, Dallas Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of The Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honoured it with both Best Picture and Best Director wards.
In addition, Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award, the American Legion, The Spirit Of Normandy Award, a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington, as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army.
Selected for more than 160 Top Ten lists, Saving Private Ryans other honours include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards. Saving Private Ryan was the top grossing motion picture of 1998.
Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiersm, the story begins with World War IIs historic D Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission.
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Rayan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat.
Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders.
Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer, and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency and courage.
Special Features
* Exclusive Message from Steven Spielberg
* Saving Private Ryan ..Into The Beach
* 2 Theatrical Trailers
* Production Notes
* Cast and Filmmakers Bios
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Release date: 21 May 2009
Number of discs: 2
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