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Hacksaw Ridge was chosen by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of their top ten films of 2016 respectively, [6] [7] and received numerous awards and nominations. The film received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Actor for Garfield, and Best Sound ...
His life has been the subject of books, the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 Oscar-winning film Hacksaw Ridge, in which he was portrayed by Andrew Garfield. Early life Desmond Thomas Doss was born in Lynchburg, Virginia , to William Thomas Doss (1893–1989), a carpenter, and Bertha Edward Doss (née Oliver) (1899 ...
Terry Benedict is an American film producer. He is the founder and CEO of The Shae Foundation. [1]Benedict co-produced Hacksaw Ridge, nominated for six Academy Awards. [2] [3] Hacksaw Ridge is based on Benedict's documentary, The Conscientious Objector; a film about Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss, who refused to carry a weapon in World War Two.
Eight years after Hacksaw Ridge, Garfield is starring in We Live in Time, a tearjerker romance about newly single Tobias who falls for talented chef Almut (Florence Pugh). The story, which is not ...
David Permut, the Oscar-nominated producer of “Hacksaw Ridge,” has acquired the life rights to the story of John Franzese Jr., the son of the Colombo crime family's second-in-command, Sonny ...
In 2016, Hacksaw Ridge, a fictional film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew Garfield as Doss, was released to critical and commercial success, signaling Gibson's welcome-back to Hollywood. Benedict was one of the producers of Hacksaw Ridge , and the film features several excerpts from The Conscientious Objector immediately before the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Hacksaw Ridge backer Argent Pictures, Nine Days producer Mandalay Pictures and Book Club writer-director Bill Holderman are teaming up on a feature adaptation of WWII tale The Last ...
Following a year-long absence from the screen, Garfield had starring roles in two films of 2016, Martin Scorsese's drama Silence and Mel Gibson's war film Hacksaw Ridge. In the former, based on Shūsaku Endō 's 1966 novel of the same name , Garfield played Sebastião Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit priest in the seventeenth century who travels ...