Full awards and nominations of Prick Up your Ears
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Drama. Comedy
This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Loot and What the Butler Saw is evenly balanced by the bleakness of the playwright's tormented (and tormenting) off-stage existence, which ended ... [+]
- 45th Golden Globes Awards (1988) - Movies from 1987
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BAFTA 1989: British Academy Film Awards (Movies from 1987)
- nom. Best Leading Actor (Gary Oldman)
- nom. Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Redgrave)
- nom. Best Adapted Screenplay (Alan Bennett)
- Cannes Film Festival 1987
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3 Independent Spirit Awards
- nom. Best Foreign Film
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New York Film Critics Circle - Year 1987 - http://nyfcc.com
- winner Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Redgrave)
- NSFC - National Society of Film Critics 1987
- Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 1987