To Kill a Mockingbird (film)
1962 film by Robert Mulligan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name. The film stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. It marked the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.
To Kill a Mockingbird | |
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Directed by | Robert Mulligan |
Screenplay by | Horton Foote |
Based on | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
Produced by | Alan J. Pakula |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Kim Stanley |
Cinematography | Russell Harlan, A.S.C. |
Edited by | Aaron Stell, A.C.E. |
Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 129 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Box office | $13.1 million[2] |
It gained overwhelmingly positive reception from both the critics and the public; a box-office success, it earned more than six times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture.
In 1995, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007, the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. In 2020, the British Film Institute included it in their list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 15.[3] The film was restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, as part of the 100th anniversary of Universal Pictures.[4]