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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
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Cover of Lost Moon first Edition

Author
Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Aerospace engineering
Published
1994 (Houghton Mifflin Company)
1995 (Pocket Books)

Media type
Print
Pages
378 (first edition)
ISBN
0-395-67029-2

Dewey Decimal
 629.45
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a non-fiction book first published in 1994 by astronaut James Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April, 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded. The book is the basis of the 1995 film adaptation Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard.
Apollo 13 was the third mission of the Apollo program intended to land men on the Moon. An explosion of an onboard liquid oxygen tank in the Service Module, when the craft was close to reaching the Moon, crippled the electrical power generation and propulsion systems for the command ship Odyssey. This necessitated the abort of the lunar landing, and placed the lives of astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in serious jeopardy. The mission became famous for the safe return of the men, made possible by the flight controllers' resourceful adaptation of the electrical, propulsion, and life support systems of the lunar landing ship Aquarius as a "lifeboat".
Physical description[edit]
Hardcover, 378 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T) (October 1994)
Language: English
ISBN 0-395-67029-2
Dimensions: 1.5 × 6.2 × 9.2 inches



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Lost Moon
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Lost Moon.jpg
Cover of Lost Moon first Edition

Author
Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Aerospace engineering
Published
1994 (Houghton Mifflin Company)
1995 (Pocket Books)

Media type
Print
Pages
378 (first edition)
ISBN
0-395-67029-2

Dewey Decimal
 629.45
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a non-fiction book first published in 1994 by astronaut James Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April, 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded. The book is the basis of the 1995 film adaptation Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard.
Apollo 13 was the third mission of the Apollo program intended to land men on the Moon. An explosion of an onboard liquid oxygen tank in the Service Module, when the craft was close to reaching the Moon, crippled the electrical power generation and propulsion systems for the command ship Odyssey. This necessitated the abort of the lunar landing, and placed the lives of astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in serious jeopardy. The mission became famous for the safe return of the men, made possible by the flight controllers' resourceful adaptation of the electrical, propulsion, and life support systems of the lunar landing ship Aquarius as a "lifeboat".
Physical description[edit]
Hardcover, 378 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T) (October 1994)
Language: English
ISBN 0-395-67029-2
Dimensions: 1.5 × 6.2 × 9.2 inches



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Apollo 13 (film)
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Apollo 13
A thin light-gray crescent Moon stretches diagonally from lower left to upper right against a black background, with a blue and white crescent Earth in the far distance. In front of the portion of the moon that is in shadow on the left appears a small image of the Apollo 13 Command/Service module joined to the Lunar Module, with vapor streaming from a hole in the side of the Service Module — the words "Houston, we have a problem" appear directly above the craft in white lower case lettering. The names of the principal actors appear in white lettering at the top of the image, and the title APOLLO 13 in block white upper-case letters appears at the lower right.
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Ron Howard
Produced by
Brian Grazer
Screenplay by
William Broyles, Jr.
Al Reinert
Based on
Lost Moon
 by Jim Lovell
Jeffrey Kluger
Starring
Tom Hanks
Kevin Bacon
Bill Paxton
Gary Sinise
Ed Harris
Music by
James Horner
Cinematography
Dean Cundey
Edited by
Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill

Production
 company

Imagine Entertainment

Distributed by
Universal Pictures

Release dates

June 30, 1995 (United States)


Running time
 140 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$52 million[1]
Box office
$355,237,933[2]
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American historical docudrama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.
Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's technical assistance in astronaut and flight controller training for his cast, and even obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the "weightlessness" experienced by the astronauts in space.
Released in the United States on June 30, 1995, Apollo 13 garnered critical acclaim and was nominated for many awards, including nine Academy Awards (winning for Best Film Editing and Best Sound).[3] In total, the film grossed over $355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Pre-production and props
3.2 Cast training and filming
4 Soundtrack
5 Release 5.1 Box office performance
5.2 Reception
5.3 Home media
6 Accolades
7 Technical and historical accuracy
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
On July 20, 1969, veteran astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who watch on television as Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. After the party, Lovell, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn that he intends to return to the Moon and walk on its surface.
On October 30, 1969, while giving a VIP tour of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, Lovell is informed by his boss Deke Slayton that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise begin training for their new mission. Days before launch, it is discovered that Mattingly was exposed to measles, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly's backup, Jack Swigert, as a safety precaution. Lovell resists breaking up his team, but relents after Slayton gives him the ultimatum of either accepting the switch, or else being bumped to a later mission.
As the launch date approaches, Marilyn's fears for her husband's safety manifest in nightmares, but she goes to Cape Kennedy the night before launch, to see him off despite her misgivings.
On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz gives the go-ahead from Houston's Mission Control Center for launch. As the Saturn V rocket climbs into the sky, an engine on the second stage cuts off prematurely, but the craft successfully reaches Earth orbit. After the third stage fires, sending Apollo 13 on a trajectory to the Moon, Swigert docks the Command/Service Module Odyssey with the Lunar Module Aquarius, and pulls it away from the spent stage.
Three days into the mission, the crew send a live television transmission from Odyssey, but the networks, believing the public now regards lunar missions as routine, decline to carry the broadcast live. Swigert is told to perform a standard housekeeping procedure of stirring the two liquid oxygen tanks in the Service Module. When he flips the switch, one tank explodes, emptying its contents into space and sending the craft tumbling. The other tank is soon found to be leaking, prompting Mission Control to abort the Moon landing, and forcing Lovell and Haise to hurriedly power up Aquarius as a "lifeboat" for the return home, while Swigert shuts down Odyssey before its battery power runs out. On Earth, Kranz rallies his team to do what is necessary to get the astronauts home safely, declaring "failure is not an option." Controller John Aaron recruits Mattingly to help him figure out how to restart Odyssey for the final return to Earth.
As Swigert and Haise watch the Moon passing beneath them, Lovell laments his lost chance of walking on its surface, then turns their attention to the task of getting home. With Aquarius running on minimum systems to conserve power, the crew is soon subjected to freezing conditions. Swigert suspects Mission Control is unable to get them home and is withholding this from them. In a fit of rage, Haise blames Swigert's inexperience for the accident; the ensuing argument is quickly squelched by Lovell. When the carbon dioxide exhaled by the astronauts reaches the Lunar Module's filter capacity and approaches dangerous levels, an engineering team quickly invents a way to make the Command Module's square filters work in the Lunar Module's round receptacles. With the guidance systems on Aquarius shut down, and despite Haise's fever and miserable living conditions, the crew succeeds in making a difficult but vital course correction by manually igniting the Lunar Module's engine.
Mattingly and Aaron struggle to find a way to power up the Command Module with its limited available power, but finally succeed and transmit the procedures to Swigert, who successfully restarts Odyssey by transmitting extra power from Aquarius. When the Service Module is jettisoned, the crew finally see the extent of the damage and prepare for re-entry, unsure whether Odyssey's heat shield is intact. If it is not, they will incinerate during re-entry. They release Aquarius and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in Odyssey. After a tense, longer than normal period of radio silence due to ionization blackout, the astronauts report all is well and splash down in the Pacific Ocean. The three men are brought aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima.
As the astronauts are given a hero's welcome on deck, Lovell's narration describes the events that follow their return from space—including the investigation into the explosion, and the subsequent careers and lives of Haise, Swigert, Mattingly and Kranz—and ends with him wondering when mankind will return to the Moon.
Cast[edit]












Top to bottom: Hanks, Bacon and Paxton, who portray astronauts Lovell, Swigert and Haise respectively.
Tom Hanks as Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. Jim Lovell stated that before the book was even written, the rights were being shopped to potential buyers[4] and that his first reaction was that actor Kevin Costner would be a good choice to play him.[5][6] However, by the time Howard acquired the director's position, Costner's name never came up in serious discussion, and Hanks had already been interested in doing a film based on Apollo 13. When Hanks' representative informed him that there was a script being passed around, he had the script sent to him.[4] John Travolta was initially offered the role of Lovell, but declined.[7]
Kevin Bacon as Apollo 13 backup Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert
Bill Paxton as Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
Gary Sinise as Apollo 13 prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. Sinise was invited by Howard to read for any of the characters, and chose Mattingly.[4]
Ed Harris as White Team Flight Director Gene Kranz. Harris described the film as "cramming for a final exam." Harris described Gene Kranz as "corny and like a dinosaur", but was respected by the crew.[4]
Kathleen Quinlan as Lovell's wife Marilyn
Chris Ellis as Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton
Joe Spano as "NASA Director", a composite character loosely based on Chris Kraft
Marc McClure as Black Team Flight Director Glynn Lunney
Clint Howard as White Team EECOM (Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager) Sy Liebergot
Ray McKinnon as White Team FIDO (Flight Dynamics Officer) Jerry Woodfill.
Todd Louiso as White Team FAO (Flight Activities Officer)
Loren Dean as EECOM John Aaron
Xander Berkeley as "Henry Hurt", a fictional NASA Office of Public Affairs staff member[8]
David Andrews as Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad
Christian Clemenson as Flight Surgeon Dr. Charles Berry
Ben Marley as Apollo 13 backup Commander John Young
Brett Cullen as CAPCOM (Capsule Communicator) 1
Ned Vaughn as CAPCOM 2
Tracy Reiner as Haise's then-wife Mary
Mary Kate Schellhardt as Lovell's older daughter Barbara
Max Elliott Slade as Lovell's older son James (Jay), who attended military school at the time of the flight
Emily Ann Lloyd as Lovell's younger daughter Susan
Miko Hughes as Lovell's younger son Jeffrey
Thom Barry as an orderly at Blanch's retirement home
The real Jim Lovell appears as captain of the recovery ship USS Iwo Jima; Howard had intended to make him an admiral, but Lovell himself, having retired as a Captain, chose to appear in his actual rank. Horror film director Roger Corman, a mentor of Howard, appears as a congressman being given a VIP tour by Lovell of the Vehicle Assembly Building, as it had become something of a tradition for Corman to make a cameo appearance in his protégés' films.[9][10] The real Marilyn Lovell appeared among the spectators during the launch sequence.[5] CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite appears in archive news footage and can be heard in newly recorded announcements, some of which he edited himself to sound more authentic.[5]
In addition to his brother, Clint Howard, several other members of Ron Howard's family appear in the movie:
Rance Howard (his father) appears as the Lovell family minister.
Jean Speegle Howard (his mother) appears as Lovell's mother Blanch.
Cheryl Howard (his wife) and Bryce Dallas Howard (his daughter) appear as uncredited background performers in the scene where the astronauts wave goodbye to their families.[10]
Brad Pitt was offered a role in the film, but turned it down to star in Se7en.[11] Reportedly, the real Pete Conrad expressed interest in appearing in the film.[5]
Jeffrey Kluger appears as a television reporter.[10]
Production[edit]
Pre-production and props[edit]
While planning the film, director Ron Howard decided that every shot of the film would be original and that no mission footage would be used.[12] The spacecraft interiors were constructed by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center's Space Works, who also restored the Apollo 13 Command Module. Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were constructed for filming. While each was a replica, composed of some of the original Apollo materials, they were built so that different sections were removable, which enabled filming to take place inside the capsules. Space Works also built modified Command and Lunar Modules for filming inside a Boeing KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft, and the pressure suits worn by the actors, which are exact reproductions of those worn by the Apollo astronauts, right down to the detail of being airtight. When the actors put the suits on with their helmets locked in place, air was pumped into the suits to cool them down and allow them to breathe, exactly as in launch preparations for the real Apollo missions.[13]
The real Mission Control Center consisted of two control rooms located on the second and third floors of Building 30 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA offered the use of the control room for filming but Howard declined, opting instead to make his own replica from scratch.[5][12] Production designer Michael Corenblith and set decorator Merideth Boswell were in charge of the construction of the Mission Control set at Universal Studios. The set was equipped with giant rear-screen projection capabilities and a complex set of computers with individual video feeds to all the flight controller stations. The actors playing the flight controllers were able to communicate with each other on a private audio loop.[13] The Mission Control room built for the film was on the ground floor.[12] One NASA employee who was a consultant for the film said that the set was so realistic that he would leave at the end of the day and look for the elevator before remembering he was not in Mission Control.[5] By the time the film was made, the USS Iwo Jima had been scrapped, so her sister ship, the USS New Orleans, was used as the recovery ship instead.[12]



"For actors, being able to actually shoot in zero gravity as opposed to being in incredibly painful and uncomfortable harnesses for special effects shots was all the difference between what would have been a horrible moviemaking experience as opposed to the completely glorious one that it actually was."
—Tom Hanks[13]
Howard anticipated difficulty in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with Steven Spielberg, who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way as to create about 23 seconds of weightlessness, a method NASA has always used to train its astronauts for space flight. Howard obtained NASA's permission and assistance in filming in the realistic conditions aboard multiple KC-135 flights.[14]
Cast training and filming[edit]
To prepare for their roles in the film, Hanks, Paxton, and Bacon all attended the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. While there, astronauts Jim Lovell and David Scott, commander of Apollo 15, did actual training exercises with the actors inside a simulated Command Module and Lunar Module. The actors were also taught about each of the 500 buttons, toggles, and switches used to operate the spacecraft.[citation needed]
The actors then traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston where they flew in NASA's KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft to simulate weightlessness in outer space. While in the KC-135, filming took place in bursts of 25 seconds, the length of each period of weightlessness that the plane could produce. The filmmakers eventually flew 612 parabolas which added up to a total of three hours and 54 minutes of weightlessness. Parts of the Command Module, Lunar Module and the tunnel that connected them were built by production designer Michael Corenblith, art directors David J. Bomba and Bruce Alan Miller and their crew to fit inside the KC-135. Filming in such an environment, while never done before for a film, was a tremendous time saver. In the KC-135, the actors moved wherever they wanted, surrounded by floating props; the camera and cameraman were weightless so filming could take place on any axis from which a shot could be set up.[citation needed]
In Los Angeles, Ed Harris and all the actors portraying flight controllers enrolled in a Flight Controller School led by Gerry Griffin, an Apollo 13 flight director, and flight controller Jerry Bostick. The actors studied audiotapes from the mission, reviewed hundreds of pages of NASA transcripts and attended a crash course in physics.[12][13] Astronaut Dave Scott was impressed with their efforts, stating that each actor was determined to make every scene technically correct, word for word.[4]
Soundtrack[edit]

Apollo 13: Music From The Motion Picture

Soundtrack album by James Horner

Released
27 June 1995
Genre
Soundtrack
Length
77:41
Label
MCA

Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[15]
Filmtracks.com 5/5 stars[16]
SoundtrackNet 4/5 stars[17]
Tracksounds 9/10 stars[18]
The score to Apollo 13 was composed and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released in 1995 by MCA Records and has seven tracks of score, eight period songs used in the film, and seven tracks of dialogue by the actors at a running time of nearly seventy-eight minutes. The music also features solos by vocalist Annie Lennox and Tim Morrison on the trumpet. The score was a critical success and garnered Horner an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.[19]
All music composed by James Horner, except where noted.

Apollo 13: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

No.
Title
Length

1. "Main Title"   1:32
2. "One Small Step"   0:42
3. "Night Train" (performed by James Brown) 3:27
4. "Groovin'" (performed by The Young Rascals) 2:26
5. "Somebody to Love" (performed by Jefferson Airplane) 2:55
6. "I Can See for Miles" (performed by The Who) 4:09
7. "Purple Haze" (performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience) 2:48
8. "Launch Control"   3:28
9. "All Systems Go/The Launch"   6:39
10. "Welcome to Apollo 13"   0:38
11. "Spirit in the Sky" (performed by Norman Greenbaum) 3:50
12. "House Cleaning/Houston, We Have a Problem"   1:34
13. "Master Alarm"   2:54
14. "What's Going On?"   0:34
15. "Into the L.E.M."   3:43
16. "Out of Time/Shut Her Down"   2:20
17. "The Darkside of the Moon" (performed by Annie Lennox) 5:09
18. "Failure is Not an Option"   1:18
19. "Honky Tonkin'" (performed by Hank Williams) 2:42
20. "Blue Moon" (performed by The Mavericks) 4:09
21. "Waiting for Disaster/A Privilege"   0:43
22. "Re-Entry & Splashdown"   9:05
23. "End Titles" (performed by Annie Lennox) 5:34
Release[edit]
The film was released on 30 June 1995 in North America and on 22 September 1995 in the UK.
In September 2002 the film was re-released in IMAX. It was the first film to be digitally remastered using IMAX DMR technology.[20]
Box office performance[edit]
The film was a box office success, gaining $355,237,933 worldwide.[2] The film's widest release was 2,347 theaters.[2] The film's opening weekend and the following two weeks placed it at #1 with a US gross of $25,353,380, which made up 14.7% of the total US gross.[2]
Apollo 13 box office revenue

Source
Gross (USD)
 % Total
All time rank (unadjusted)
US $173,837,933[2] 48.9% 126[2]
Non-US $181,400,000[2] 51.1% N/A
Worldwide $355,237,933[2] 100.0% 140[2]
Reception[edit]
Apollo 13 received very positive reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film has an overall approval rating of 95% based on 81 reviews, with a weighted average score of 8.1/10.[21] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized 0–100 rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews.[22]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerful story, one of the year's best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics."[23] Richard Corliss from Time highly praised the film, saying: "From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride."[24] Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle gave a mixed review and wrote: "I just wish that Apollo 13 worked better as a movie, and that Howard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide."[25] Peter Travers from Rolling Stone praised the film and wrote: "Howard lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film."[26] Movie Room Reviews said "This film is arguably one of the most dramatic and horrendous spaceflight stories ever told."[27]
Janet Maslin made the film an NYT Critics' Pick, calling it an "absolutely thrilling" film that "unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story." According to Maslin, "like Quiz Show, Apollo 13 beautifully evokes recent history in ways that resonate strongly today. Cleverly nostalgic in its visual style (Rita Ryack's costumes are especially right), it harks back to movie making without phony heroics and to the strong spirit of community that enveloped the astronauts and their families. Amazingly, this film manages to seem refreshingly honest while still conforming to the three-act dramatic format of a standard Hollywood hit. It is far and away the best thing Mr. Howard has done (and Far and Away was one of the other kind)."[28] The academic critic Raymond Malewitz focuses on the DIY aspects of the "mailbox" filtration system to illustrate the emergence of an unlikely hero in late twentieth-century American culture—"the creative, improvisational, but restrained thinker—who replaces the older prodigal cowboy heroes of American mythology and provides the country a better, more frugal example of an appropriate 'husband'."[29]
Ron Howard stated that, after the first test preview of the film, one of the comment cards indicated "total disdain"; the audience member had written that it was a "typical Hollywood" ending and that the crew would never have survived.[30] Marilyn Lovell praised Quinlan's portrayal of her, stating she felt she could feel what Quinlan's character was going through, and remembered how she felt in her mind.[4]
Home media[edit]
A 10th-anniversary DVD of the film was released in 2005; it included both the theatrical version and the IMAX version, along with several extras.[31] The IMAX version has a 1.66:1 aspect ratio.[32]
In 2006, Apollo 13 was released on HD DVD; on 13 April 2010, it was released on Blu-ray disc as the 15th anniversary edition, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident (Central Standard Time).[31]
Accolades[edit]

Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Ref.
1996 Academy Awards (1996) Best Film Editing Mike Hill and Daniel Hanley Won [3]
Best Sound Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, David MacMillan Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Ed Harris (lost to Kevin Spacey in Usual Suspects) Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kathleen Quinlan (lost to Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite) Nominated
Best Art Direction Michael Corenblith (art director), Merideth Boswell (set decorator) (lost to Restoration) Nominated
Best Original Dramatic Score James Horner (lost to Il Postino) Nominated
Best Picture Brian Grazer (lost to Braveheart) Nominated
Best Visual Effects Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Leslie Ekker, Matt Sweeney (lost to Babe) Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert (lost to Sense & Sensibility) Nominated
American Cinema Editors (Eddies) Best Edited Feature Film Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley Nominated 
American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Dean Cundey Nominated 
BAFTA Film Awards Best Production Design Michael Corenblith Won 
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney, Leslie Ekker Won
Best Cinematography Dean Cundey Nominated
Best Editing Mike Hill, Daniel Hanley Nominated
Best Sound David MacMillan, Rick Dior, Scott Millan, Steve Pederson Nominated
Casting Society of America (Artios) Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama Jane Jenkins, Janet Hirshenson Nominated 
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Apollo 13 Won 
Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Ron Howard, Carl Clifford, Aldric La'Auli Porter, Jane Paul Won 
Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Ed Harris as Gene Kranz Nominated 
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell Nominated
Best Director – Motion Picture Ron Howard Nominated
Best Motion Picture – Drama Apollo 13 Nominated
Heartland Film Festival Studio Crystal Heart Award Jeffrey Kluger Won 
Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Apollo 13 Nominated 
MTV Movie Awards Best Male Performance Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell Nominated 
Best Movie Apollo 13 Nominated
PGA Awards Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Brian Grazer, Todd Hallowell Won 
Saturn Awards Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film Apollo 13 Nominated 
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Ed Harris as Gene Kranz Won 
Outstanding Performance by a Cast Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan and Gary Sinise Won
Space Foundation's Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award Best Family Feature – Drama Apollo 13 Won [33]
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert Nominated 
Young Artist Awards Best Family Feature – Drama Apollo 13 Nominated 
2001 American Film Institute AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills Apollo 13 Nominated 
2005 American Film Institute AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes "Houston, we have a problem." (#50) Won [34]
2006 American Film Institute AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers Apollo 13 (#12) Won [34]
Technical and historical accuracy[edit]



 Apollo 13 space capsule prop from the film.
The film depicts the crew hearing a bang quickly after Swigert followed directions from mission control to stir the oxygen and hydrogen tanks. In reality, the crew heard the bang 93 seconds later.[35]
The dialogue between ground control and the astronauts was taken nearly verbatim from transcripts and recordings, with the exception of one of the taglines of the film, "Houston, we have a problem." (This quote was voted #50 on the list "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes".) According to the mission transcript, the actual words uttered by Jack Swigert were "I believe we've had a problem here" (talking over Haise, who had started "Okay, Houston"). Ground control responded by saying "This is Houston, say again please." Jim Lovell then repeated, "Houston, we've had a problem."[36]
One other incorrect dialogue is after the re-entry blackout. In the movie, Tom Hanks (as Lovell) says "Hello Houston... this is Odyssey... it's good to see you again." In the actual re-entry, the Command Module was finally acquired by a Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King recovery aircraft which then relayed communications to Mission Control. Capcom and fellow astronaut Joe Kerwin (not Mattingly, who serves as Capcom in this scene in the movie) then made a call to the spacecraft "Odyssey, Houston standing by. Over." Jack Swigert, not Lovell, replied "Okay, Joe," and unlike in the movie, this was well before the parachutes deployed; the celebrations depicted at Mission Control were triggered by visual confirmation of their deployment.[37]
The tagline "Failure is not an option", stated in the film by Gene Kranz, also became very popular, but was not taken from the historical transcripts. The following story relates the origin of the phrase, from an e-mail by Apollo 13 Flight Dynamics Officer Jerry Bostick:
"As far as the expression 'Failure is not an option,' you are correct that Kranz never used that term. In preparation for the movie, the script writers, Al Reinart and Bill Broyles, came down to Clear Lake to interview me on 'What are the people in Mission Control really like?' One of their questions was 'Weren't there times when everybody, or at least a few people, just panicked?' My answer was 'No, when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them. We never panicked, and we never gave up on finding a solution.' I immediately sensed that Bill Broyles wanted to leave and assumed that he was bored with the interview. Only months later did I learn that when they got in their car to leave, he started screaming, 'That's it! That's the tag line for the whole movie, Failure is not an option. Now we just have to figure out who to have say it.' Of course, they gave it to the Kranz character, and the rest is history."[38]
A DVD commentary track, recorded by Jim and Marilyn Lovell and included with both DVD versions,[31] mentions several inaccuracies included in the film, all done for reasons of artistic license:



"We were working and watching the controls during that time. Because we came in shallow, it took us longer coming through the atmosphere where we had ionization. And the other thing was that we were just slow in answering."
—Jim Lovell, on the real reason for the delay in replying after Apollo 13's four-minute re-entry into Earth's atmosphere[39]
In the film, Mattingly plays a key role in solving a power consumption problem that Apollo 13 was faced with as it approached re-entry. Lovell points out in his commentary that Mattingly was a composite of several astronauts and engineers—including Charles Duke (whose rubella led to Mattingly's grounding)—all of whom played a role in solving that problem.[5]
When Jack Swigert is getting ready to dock with the LM, a concerned NASA technician says: "If Swigert can't dock this thing, we don't have a mission." Lovell and Haise also seem worried. In his DVD commentary, the real Jim Lovell says that if Swigert had been unable to dock with the LM, he or Haise could have done it. He also says that Swigert was a well-trained Command Module pilot and that no one was really worried about whether he was up to the job,[39] but he admitted that it made a nice sub-plot for the film. What Lovell and Haise were really worried about was the rendezvous with Swigert as they left the Moon.[5]
A scene set the night before the launch, showing the astronauts' family members saying their goodbyes while separated by a road, to reduce the possibility of any last-minute transmission of disease, depicted a tradition not begun until the Space Shuttle program.[5]
The film depicts Marilyn Lovell dropping her wedding ring down a shower drain. According to Jim Lovell, this did occur,[39] but the drain trap caught the ring and his wife was able to retrieve it.[5] Lovell has also confirmed that the scene in which his wife had a nightmare about him being "sucked through an open door of a spacecraft into outer space" also occurred, though he believes the nightmare was prompted by her seeing a scene in Marooned, a 1969 film they saw three months before Apollo 13 blasted off.[39]
See also[edit]
From the Earth to the Moon, a docudrama mini-series based around the Apollo missions.
Gravity, a 2013 film about astronauts escaping from orbit.
Marooned, a 1969 film directed by John Sturges, about astronauts marooned in an Apollo Command/Service Module.


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Apollo 13
A thin light-gray crescent Moon stretches diagonally from lower left to upper right against a black background, with a blue and white crescent Earth in the far distance. In front of the portion of the moon that is in shadow on the left appears a small image of the Apollo 13 Command/Service module joined to the Lunar Module, with vapor streaming from a hole in the side of the Service Module — the words "Houston, we have a problem" appear directly above the craft in white lower case lettering. The names of the principal actors appear in white lettering at the top of the image, and the title APOLLO 13 in block white upper-case letters appears at the lower right.
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Ron Howard
Produced by
Brian Grazer
Screenplay by
William Broyles, Jr.
Al Reinert
Based on
Lost Moon
 by Jim Lovell
Jeffrey Kluger
Starring
Tom Hanks
Kevin Bacon
Bill Paxton
Gary Sinise
Ed Harris
Music by
James Horner
Cinematography
Dean Cundey
Edited by
Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill

Production
 company

Imagine Entertainment

Distributed by
Universal Pictures

Release dates

June 30, 1995 (United States)


Running time
 140 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$52 million[1]
Box office
$355,237,933[2]
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American historical docudrama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.
Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's technical assistance in astronaut and flight controller training for his cast, and even obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the "weightlessness" experienced by the astronauts in space.
Released in the United States on June 30, 1995, Apollo 13 garnered critical acclaim and was nominated for many awards, including nine Academy Awards (winning for Best Film Editing and Best Sound).[3] In total, the film grossed over $355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Pre-production and props
3.2 Cast training and filming
4 Soundtrack
5 Release 5.1 Box office performance
5.2 Reception
5.3 Home media
6 Accolades
7 Technical and historical accuracy
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
On July 20, 1969, veteran astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who watch on television as Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. After the party, Lovell, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn that he intends to return to the Moon and walk on its surface.
On October 30, 1969, while giving a VIP tour of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, Lovell is informed by his boss Deke Slayton that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise begin training for their new mission. Days before launch, it is discovered that Mattingly was exposed to measles, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly's backup, Jack Swigert, as a safety precaution. Lovell resists breaking up his team, but relents after Slayton gives him the ultimatum of either accepting the switch, or else being bumped to a later mission.
As the launch date approaches, Marilyn's fears for her husband's safety manifest in nightmares, but she goes to Cape Kennedy the night before launch, to see him off despite her misgivings.
On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz gives the go-ahead from Houston's Mission Control Center for launch. As the Saturn V rocket climbs into the sky, an engine on the second stage cuts off prematurely, but the craft successfully reaches Earth orbit. After the third stage fires, sending Apollo 13 on a trajectory to the Moon, Swigert docks the Command/Service Module Odyssey with the Lunar Module Aquarius, and pulls it away from the spent stage.
Three days into the mission, the crew send a live television transmission from Odyssey, but the networks, believing the public now regards lunar missions as routine, decline to carry the broadcast live. Swigert is told to perform a standard housekeeping procedure of stirring the two liquid oxygen tanks in the Service Module. When he flips the switch, one tank explodes, emptying its contents into space and sending the craft tumbling. The other tank is soon found to be leaking, prompting Mission Control to abort the Moon landing, and forcing Lovell and Haise to hurriedly power up Aquarius as a "lifeboat" for the return home, while Swigert shuts down Odyssey before its battery power runs out. On Earth, Kranz rallies his team to do what is necessary to get the astronauts home safely, declaring "failure is not an option." Controller John Aaron recruits Mattingly to help him figure out how to restart Odyssey for the final return to Earth.
As Swigert and Haise watch the Moon passing beneath them, Lovell laments his lost chance of walking on its surface, then turns their attention to the task of getting home. With Aquarius running on minimum systems to conserve power, the crew is soon subjected to freezing conditions. Swigert suspects Mission Control is unable to get them home and is withholding this from them. In a fit of rage, Haise blames Swigert's inexperience for the accident; the ensuing argument is quickly squelched by Lovell. When the carbon dioxide exhaled by the astronauts reaches the Lunar Module's filter capacity and approaches dangerous levels, an engineering team quickly invents a way to make the Command Module's square filters work in the Lunar Module's round receptacles. With the guidance systems on Aquarius shut down, and despite Haise's fever and miserable living conditions, the crew succeeds in making a difficult but vital course correction by manually igniting the Lunar Module's engine.
Mattingly and Aaron struggle to find a way to power up the Command Module with its limited available power, but finally succeed and transmit the procedures to Swigert, who successfully restarts Odyssey by transmitting extra power from Aquarius. When the Service Module is jettisoned, the crew finally see the extent of the damage and prepare for re-entry, unsure whether Odyssey's heat shield is intact. If it is not, they will incinerate during re-entry. They release Aquarius and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in Odyssey. After a tense, longer than normal period of radio silence due to ionization blackout, the astronauts report all is well and splash down in the Pacific Ocean. The three men are brought aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima.
As the astronauts are given a hero's welcome on deck, Lovell's narration describes the events that follow their return from space—including the investigation into the explosion, and the subsequent careers and lives of Haise, Swigert, Mattingly and Kranz—and ends with him wondering when mankind will return to the Moon.
Cast[edit]












Top to bottom: Hanks, Bacon and Paxton, who portray astronauts Lovell, Swigert and Haise respectively.
Tom Hanks as Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. Jim Lovell stated that before the book was even written, the rights were being shopped to potential buyers[4] and that his first reaction was that actor Kevin Costner would be a good choice to play him.[5][6] However, by the time Howard acquired the director's position, Costner's name never came up in serious discussion, and Hanks had already been interested in doing a film based on Apollo 13. When Hanks' representative informed him that there was a script being passed around, he had the script sent to him.[4] John Travolta was initially offered the role of Lovell, but declined.[7]
Kevin Bacon as Apollo 13 backup Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert
Bill Paxton as Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
Gary Sinise as Apollo 13 prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. Sinise was invited by Howard to read for any of the characters, and chose Mattingly.[4]
Ed Harris as White Team Flight Director Gene Kranz. Harris described the film as "cramming for a final exam." Harris described Gene Kranz as "corny and like a dinosaur", but was respected by the crew.[4]
Kathleen Quinlan as Lovell's wife Marilyn
Chris Ellis as Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton
Joe Spano as "NASA Director", a composite character loosely based on Chris Kraft
Marc McClure as Black Team Flight Director Glynn Lunney
Clint Howard as White Team EECOM (Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager) Sy Liebergot
Ray McKinnon as White Team FIDO (Flight Dynamics Officer) Jerry Woodfill.
Todd Louiso as White Team FAO (Flight Activities Officer)
Loren Dean as EECOM John Aaron
Xander Berkeley as "Henry Hurt", a fictional NASA Office of Public Affairs staff member[8]
David Andrews as Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad
Christian Clemenson as Flight Surgeon Dr. Charles Berry
Ben Marley as Apollo 13 backup Commander John Young
Brett Cullen as CAPCOM (Capsule Communicator) 1
Ned Vaughn as CAPCOM 2
Tracy Reiner as Haise's then-wife Mary
Mary Kate Schellhardt as Lovell's older daughter Barbara
Max Elliott Slade as Lovell's older son James (Jay), who attended military school at the time of the flight
Emily Ann Lloyd as Lovell's younger daughter Susan
Miko Hughes as Lovell's younger son Jeffrey
Thom Barry as an orderly at Blanch's retirement home
The real Jim Lovell appears as captain of the recovery ship USS Iwo Jima; Howard had intended to make him an admiral, but Lovell himself, having retired as a Captain, chose to appear in his actual rank. Horror film director Roger Corman, a mentor of Howard, appears as a congressman being given a VIP tour by Lovell of the Vehicle Assembly Building, as it had become something of a tradition for Corman to make a cameo appearance in his protégés' films.[9][10] The real Marilyn Lovell appeared among the spectators during the launch sequence.[5] CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite appears in archive news footage and can be heard in newly recorded announcements, some of which he edited himself to sound more authentic.[5]
In addition to his brother, Clint Howard, several other members of Ron Howard's family appear in the movie:
Rance Howard (his father) appears as the Lovell family minister.
Jean Speegle Howard (his mother) appears as Lovell's mother Blanch.
Cheryl Howard (his wife) and Bryce Dallas Howard (his daughter) appear as uncredited background performers in the scene where the astronauts wave goodbye to their families.[10]
Brad Pitt was offered a role in the film, but turned it down to star in Se7en.[11] Reportedly, the real Pete Conrad expressed interest in appearing in the film.[5]
Jeffrey Kluger appears as a television reporter.[10]
Production[edit]
Pre-production and props[edit]
While planning the film, director Ron Howard decided that every shot of the film would be original and that no mission footage would be used.[12] The spacecraft interiors were constructed by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center's Space Works, who also restored the Apollo 13 Command Module. Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were constructed for filming. While each was a replica, composed of some of the original Apollo materials, they were built so that different sections were removable, which enabled filming to take place inside the capsules. Space Works also built modified Command and Lunar Modules for filming inside a Boeing KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft, and the pressure suits worn by the actors, which are exact reproductions of those worn by the Apollo astronauts, right down to the detail of being airtight. When the actors put the suits on with their helmets locked in place, air was pumped into the suits to cool them down and allow them to breathe, exactly as in launch preparations for the real Apollo missions.[13]
The real Mission Control Center consisted of two control rooms located on the second and third floors of Building 30 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA offered the use of the control room for filming but Howard declined, opting instead to make his own replica from scratch.[5][12] Production designer Michael Corenblith and set decorator Merideth Boswell were in charge of the construction of the Mission Control set at Universal Studios. The set was equipped with giant rear-screen projection capabilities and a complex set of computers with individual video feeds to all the flight controller stations. The actors playing the flight controllers were able to communicate with each other on a private audio loop.[13] The Mission Control room built for the film was on the ground floor.[12] One NASA employee who was a consultant for the film said that the set was so realistic that he would leave at the end of the day and look for the elevator before remembering he was not in Mission Control.[5] By the time the film was made, the USS Iwo Jima had been scrapped, so her sister ship, the USS New Orleans, was used as the recovery ship instead.[12]



"For actors, being able to actually shoot in zero gravity as opposed to being in incredibly painful and uncomfortable harnesses for special effects shots was all the difference between what would have been a horrible moviemaking experience as opposed to the completely glorious one that it actually was."
—Tom Hanks[13]
Howard anticipated difficulty in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with Steven Spielberg, who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way as to create about 23 seconds of weightlessness, a method NASA has always used to train its astronauts for space flight. Howard obtained NASA's permission and assistance in filming in the realistic conditions aboard multiple KC-135 flights.[14]
Cast training and filming[edit]
To prepare for their roles in the film, Hanks, Paxton, and Bacon all attended the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. While there, astronauts Jim Lovell and David Scott, commander of Apollo 15, did actual training exercises with the actors inside a simulated Command Module and Lunar Module. The actors were also taught about each of the 500 buttons, toggles, and switches used to operate the spacecraft.[citation needed]
The actors then traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston where they flew in NASA's KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft to simulate weightlessness in outer space. While in the KC-135, filming took place in bursts of 25 seconds, the length of each period of weightlessness that the plane could produce. The filmmakers eventually flew 612 parabolas which added up to a total of three hours and 54 minutes of weightlessness. Parts of the Command Module, Lunar Module and the tunnel that connected them were built by production designer Michael Corenblith, art directors David J. Bomba and Bruce Alan Miller and their crew to fit inside the KC-135. Filming in such an environment, while never done before for a film, was a tremendous time saver. In the KC-135, the actors moved wherever they wanted, surrounded by floating props; the camera and cameraman were weightless so filming could take place on any axis from which a shot could be set up.[citation needed]
In Los Angeles, Ed Harris and all the actors portraying flight controllers enrolled in a Flight Controller School led by Gerry Griffin, an Apollo 13 flight director, and flight controller Jerry Bostick. The actors studied audiotapes from the mission, reviewed hundreds of pages of NASA transcripts and attended a crash course in physics.[12][13] Astronaut Dave Scott was impressed with their efforts, stating that each actor was determined to make every scene technically correct, word for word.[4]
Soundtrack[edit]

Apollo 13: Music From The Motion Picture

Soundtrack album by James Horner

Released
27 June 1995
Genre
Soundtrack
Length
77:41
Label
MCA

Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[15]
Filmtracks.com 5/5 stars[16]
SoundtrackNet 4/5 stars[17]
Tracksounds 9/10 stars[18]
The score to Apollo 13 was composed and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released in 1995 by MCA Records and has seven tracks of score, eight period songs used in the film, and seven tracks of dialogue by the actors at a running time of nearly seventy-eight minutes. The music also features solos by vocalist Annie Lennox and Tim Morrison on the trumpet. The score was a critical success and garnered Horner an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.[19]
All music composed by James Horner, except where noted.

Apollo 13: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

No.
Title
Length

1. "Main Title"   1:32
2. "One Small Step"   0:42
3. "Night Train" (performed by James Brown) 3:27
4. "Groovin'" (performed by The Young Rascals) 2:26
5. "Somebody to Love" (performed by Jefferson Airplane) 2:55
6. "I Can See for Miles" (performed by The Who) 4:09
7. "Purple Haze" (performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience) 2:48
8. "Launch Control"   3:28
9. "All Systems Go/The Launch"   6:39
10. "Welcome to Apollo 13"   0:38
11. "Spirit in the Sky" (performed by Norman Greenbaum) 3:50
12. "House Cleaning/Houston, We Have a Problem"   1:34
13. "Master Alarm"   2:54
14. "What's Going On?"   0:34
15. "Into the L.E.M."   3:43
16. "Out of Time/Shut Her Down"   2:20
17. "The Darkside of the Moon" (performed by Annie Lennox) 5:09
18. "Failure is Not an Option"   1:18
19. "Honky Tonkin'" (performed by Hank Williams) 2:42
20. "Blue Moon" (performed by The Mavericks) 4:09
21. "Waiting for Disaster/A Privilege"   0:43
22. "Re-Entry & Splashdown"   9:05
23. "End Titles" (performed by Annie Lennox) 5:34
Release[edit]
The film was released on 30 June 1995 in North America and on 22 September 1995 in the UK.
In September 2002 the film was re-released in IMAX. It was the first film to be digitally remastered using IMAX DMR technology.[20]
Box office performance[edit]
The film was a box office success, gaining $355,237,933 worldwide.[2] The film's widest release was 2,347 theaters.[2] The film's opening weekend and the following two weeks placed it at #1 with a US gross of $25,353,380, which made up 14.7% of the total US gross.[2]
Apollo 13 box office revenue

Source
Gross (USD)
 % Total
All time rank (unadjusted)
US $173,837,933[2] 48.9% 126[2]
Non-US $181,400,000[2] 51.1% N/A
Worldwide $355,237,933[2] 100.0% 140[2]
Reception[edit]
Apollo 13 received very positive reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film has an overall approval rating of 95% based on 81 reviews, with a weighted average score of 8.1/10.[21] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized 0–100 rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews.[22]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerful story, one of the year's best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics."[23] Richard Corliss from Time highly praised the film, saying: "From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride."[24] Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle gave a mixed review and wrote: "I just wish that Apollo 13 worked better as a movie, and that Howard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide."[25] Peter Travers from Rolling Stone praised the film and wrote: "Howard lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film."[26] Movie Room Reviews said "This film is arguably one of the most dramatic and horrendous spaceflight stories ever told."[27]
Janet Maslin made the film an NYT Critics' Pick, calling it an "absolutely thrilling" film that "unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story." According to Maslin, "like Quiz Show, Apollo 13 beautifully evokes recent history in ways that resonate strongly today. Cleverly nostalgic in its visual style (Rita Ryack's costumes are especially right), it harks back to movie making without phony heroics and to the strong spirit of community that enveloped the astronauts and their families. Amazingly, this film manages to seem refreshingly honest while still conforming to the three-act dramatic format of a standard Hollywood hit. It is far and away the best thing Mr. Howard has done (and Far and Away was one of the other kind)."[28] The academic critic Raymond Malewitz focuses on the DIY aspects of the "mailbox" filtration system to illustrate the emergence of an unlikely hero in late twentieth-century American culture—"the creative, improvisational, but restrained thinker—who replaces the older prodigal cowboy heroes of American mythology and provides the country a better, more frugal example of an appropriate 'husband'."[29]
Ron Howard stated that, after the first test preview of the film, one of the comment cards indicated "total disdain"; the audience member had written that it was a "typical Hollywood" ending and that the crew would never have survived.[30] Marilyn Lovell praised Quinlan's portrayal of her, stating she felt she could feel what Quinlan's character was going through, and remembered how she felt in her mind.[4]
Home media[edit]
A 10th-anniversary DVD of the film was released in 2005; it included both the theatrical version and the IMAX version, along with several extras.[31] The IMAX version has a 1.66:1 aspect ratio.[32]
In 2006, Apollo 13 was released on HD DVD; on 13 April 2010, it was released on Blu-ray disc as the 15th anniversary edition, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident (Central Standard Time).[31]
Accolades[edit]

Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Ref.
1996 Academy Awards (1996) Best Film Editing Mike Hill and Daniel Hanley Won [3]
Best Sound Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, David MacMillan Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Ed Harris (lost to Kevin Spacey in Usual Suspects) Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kathleen Quinlan (lost to Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite) Nominated
Best Art Direction Michael Corenblith (art director), Merideth Boswell (set decorator) (lost to Restoration) Nominated
Best Original Dramatic Score James Horner (lost to Il Postino) Nominated
Best Picture Brian Grazer (lost to Braveheart) Nominated
Best Visual Effects Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Leslie Ekker, Matt Sweeney (lost to Babe) Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert (lost to Sense & Sensibility) Nominated
American Cinema Editors (Eddies) Best Edited Feature Film Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley Nominated 
American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Dean Cundey Nominated 
BAFTA Film Awards Best Production Design Michael Corenblith Won 
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney, Leslie Ekker Won
Best Cinematography Dean Cundey Nominated
Best Editing Mike Hill, Daniel Hanley Nominated
Best Sound David MacMillan, Rick Dior, Scott Millan, Steve Pederson Nominated
Casting Society of America (Artios) Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama Jane Jenkins, Janet Hirshenson Nominated 
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Apollo 13 Won 
Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Ron Howard, Carl Clifford, Aldric La'Auli Porter, Jane Paul Won 
Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Ed Harris as Gene Kranz Nominated 
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell Nominated
Best Director – Motion Picture Ron Howard Nominated
Best Motion Picture – Drama Apollo 13 Nominated
Heartland Film Festival Studio Crystal Heart Award Jeffrey Kluger Won 
Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Apollo 13 Nominated 
MTV Movie Awards Best Male Performance Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell Nominated 
Best Movie Apollo 13 Nominated
PGA Awards Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Brian Grazer, Todd Hallowell Won 
Saturn Awards Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film Apollo 13 Nominated 
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Ed Harris as Gene Kranz Won 
Outstanding Performance by a Cast Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan and Gary Sinise Won
Space Foundation's Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award Best Family Feature – Drama Apollo 13 Won [33]
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert Nominated 
Young Artist Awards Best Family Feature – Drama Apollo 13 Nominated 
2001 American Film Institute AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills Apollo 13 Nominated 
2005 American Film Institute AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes "Houston, we have a problem." (#50) Won [34]
2006 American Film Institute AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers Apollo 13 (#12) Won [34]
Technical and historical accuracy[edit]



 Apollo 13 space capsule prop from the film.
The film depicts the crew hearing a bang quickly after Swigert followed directions from mission control to stir the oxygen and hydrogen tanks. In reality, the crew heard the bang 93 seconds later.[35]
The dialogue between ground control and the astronauts was taken nearly verbatim from transcripts and recordings, with the exception of one of the taglines of the film, "Houston, we have a problem." (This quote was voted #50 on the list "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes".) According to the mission transcript, the actual words uttered by Jack Swigert were "I believe we've had a problem here" (talking over Haise, who had started "Okay, Houston"). Ground control responded by saying "This is Houston, say again please." Jim Lovell then repeated, "Houston, we've had a problem."[36]
One other incorrect dialogue is after the re-entry blackout. In the movie, Tom Hanks (as Lovell) says "Hello Houston... this is Odyssey... it's good to see you again." In the actual re-entry, the Command Module was finally acquired by a Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King recovery aircraft which then relayed communications to Mission Control. Capcom and fellow astronaut Joe Kerwin (not Mattingly, who serves as Capcom in this scene in the movie) then made a call to the spacecraft "Odyssey, Houston standing by. Over." Jack Swigert, not Lovell, replied "Okay, Joe," and unlike in the movie, this was well before the parachutes deployed; the celebrations depicted at Mission Control were triggered by visual confirmation of their deployment.[37]
The tagline "Failure is not an option", stated in the film by Gene Kranz, also became very popular, but was not taken from the historical transcripts. The following story relates the origin of the phrase, from an e-mail by Apollo 13 Flight Dynamics Officer Jerry Bostick:
"As far as the expression 'Failure is not an option,' you are correct that Kranz never used that term. In preparation for the movie, the script writers, Al Reinart and Bill Broyles, came down to Clear Lake to interview me on 'What are the people in Mission Control really like?' One of their questions was 'Weren't there times when everybody, or at least a few people, just panicked?' My answer was 'No, when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them. We never panicked, and we never gave up on finding a solution.' I immediately sensed that Bill Broyles wanted to leave and assumed that he was bored with the interview. Only months later did I learn that when they got in their car to leave, he started screaming, 'That's it! That's the tag line for the whole movie, Failure is not an option. Now we just have to figure out who to have say it.' Of course, they gave it to the Kranz character, and the rest is history."[38]
A DVD commentary track, recorded by Jim and Marilyn Lovell and included with both DVD versions,[31] mentions several inaccuracies included in the film, all done for reasons of artistic license:



"We were working and watching the controls during that time. Because we came in shallow, it took us longer coming through the atmosphere where we had ionization. And the other thing was that we were just slow in answering."
—Jim Lovell, on the real reason for the delay in replying after Apollo 13's four-minute re-entry into Earth's atmosphere[39]
In the film, Mattingly plays a key role in solving a power consumption problem that Apollo 13 was faced with as it approached re-entry. Lovell points out in his commentary that Mattingly was a composite of several astronauts and engineers—including Charles Duke (whose rubella led to Mattingly's grounding)—all of whom played a role in solving that problem.[5]
When Jack Swigert is getting ready to dock with the LM, a concerned NASA technician says: "If Swigert can't dock this thing, we don't have a mission." Lovell and Haise also seem worried. In his DVD commentary, the real Jim Lovell says that if Swigert had been unable to dock with the LM, he or Haise could have done it. He also says that Swigert was a well-trained Command Module pilot and that no one was really worried about whether he was up to the job,[39] but he admitted that it made a nice sub-plot for the film. What Lovell and Haise were really worried about was the rendezvous with Swigert as they left the Moon.[5]
A scene set the night before the launch, showing the astronauts' family members saying their goodbyes while separated by a road, to reduce the possibility of any last-minute transmission of disease, depicted a tradition not begun until the Space Shuttle program.[5]
The film depicts Marilyn Lovell dropping her wedding ring down a shower drain. According to Jim Lovell, this did occur,[39] but the drain trap caught the ring and his wife was able to retrieve it.[5] Lovell has also confirmed that the scene in which his wife had a nightmare about him being "sucked through an open door of a spacecraft into outer space" also occurred, though he believes the nightmare was prompted by her seeing a scene in Marooned, a 1969 film they saw three months before Apollo 13 blasted off.[39]
See also[edit]
From the Earth to the Moon, a docudrama mini-series based around the Apollo missions.
Gravity, a 2013 film about astronauts escaping from orbit.
Marooned, a 1969 film directed by John Sturges, about astronauts marooned in an Apollo Command/Service Module.


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From left: producer David Heyman, actress Sandra Bullock, and director Alfonso Cuarón at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013

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Total number of awards and nominations[Note 1]
Totals 127 206
References
Gravity is a 2013 3D science-fiction thriller film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by Alfonso Cuarón. The film's musical score was composed by Steven Price, with the cinematography provided by Cuarón's longtime collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki.[1] The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts involved in the mid-orbit destruction of a space shuttle and their attempt to return to Earth.
Gravity premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013 where it won the Future Film Festival Digital Award.[2][3] The film then received a wide release at over 3,500 theaters in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2013 by Warner Bros.[4] On its opening weekend, it grossed over $55 million which broke the North American opening weekend record for the month of October.[5] Gravity has grossed a worldwide total of over $716 million on a budget of $100 million.[4] As of 2014, it is both Bullock's and Clooney's highest grossing film to date.[6][7] Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 305 reviews and judged 97 percent to be positive.[8]
Gravity has garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction, cinematography, score, and visual effects. The film received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards, the most nominations of 2014's ceremony tied with American Hustle.[9] It went on to earn the most awards at the ceremony, winning seven including Best Director for Cuarón, Best Cinematography for Lubezki, Best Original Score for Price, and Best Visual Effects.[10] The film received four nominations at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, with Cuarón winning for Best Director.[11][12] Gravity led the nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards with eleven nominations.[13] The film won six awards, the most at the ceremony, including Outstanding British Film, Best Director for Cuarón, Best Cinematography for Lubezki, Best Original Music for Price, and Best Visual Effects.[14]
At the Producers Guild Awards, Gravity tied for Best Theatrical Motion Picture with 12 Years a Slave.[15] Cuarón received the Best Director award from the Directors Guild of America and Bullock was also nominated for Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.[16][17] At the 40th Saturn Awards, Gravity joint-led the nominations with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, both films receiving eight nominations.[18] The film went on to win five Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Cuarón and Best Actress for Bullock. The film's visual effects were acclaimed by the Visual Effects Society, which gave the film six awards including their top award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Film.[19] Both the American Film Institute and National Board of Review included the film in their list of top ten films of 2013.[20][21]


Contents  [hide]
1 Accolades
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

Accolades[edit]

Award
Date
Category
Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
Result
Ref(s)


AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards
January 6, 2014 Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won [22]
Academy Awards
March 2, 2014 Best Picture Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Nominated [10]
[23]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, and Joanne Woodlard Nominated
Best Film Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Best Sound Editing Glenn Freemantle Won
Best Sound Mixing Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, and Chris Munro Won
Best Visual Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould Won
African-American Film Critics Association
December 13, 2013 Top Ten Films of the Year Gravity 5th place [24]
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
December 19, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [25]
[26]
Best Director (Female or Male) Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Music or Score Steven Price Nominated
Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star Sandra Bullock Won
Actress Defying Age and Agism Won
AWJF Female Icon Award Sandra Bullock "for the strong, capable and very positive female image presented in Gravity" Nominated
Unforgettable Moment Award "George Clooney reappears" Nominated
American Cinema Editors
February 7, 2014 Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated [27]
American Film Institute
January 10, 2014 Top 10 Movies of the Year Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Won [20]
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
February 1, 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Emmanuel Lubezki Won [28]
Art Directors Guild
February 8, 2014 Excellence in Production Design – Fantasy Film Andy Nicholson Won [29]
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts International Awards
January 10, 2014 Best Film Gravity Won [30]
[31]
Best Direction Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Bodil Awards
February 1, 2014 Best US Feature Gravity Nominated [32]
Boston Online Film Critics Association
December 7, 2013 Top 10 Films of the Year Gravity 4th place [33]
Boston Society of Film Critics
December 8, 2013 Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won [34]
British Academy Film Awards
February 16, 2014 Best Film Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Nominated [13]
[14]
Outstanding British Film Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, and Jonás Cuarón Won
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Original Music Steven Price Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, and Joanne Woodlard Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated
Best Sound Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, and Chris Munro Won
Best Special Visual Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, and Nikki Penny Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association
January 16, 2014 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [35]
[36]
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Gravity Won
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Actress in an Action Movie Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Art Direction Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Score Steven Price Won
Best Visual Effects Gravity Won
César Awards
February 28, 2014 Best Foreign Film Gravity Nominated [37]
Chicago Film Critics Association
December 13, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [38]
[39]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Art Direction/Production Design Gravity Won
Cinema Audio Society Awards
February 22, 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Live Action Chris Munro, Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Gareth Cousins, Chris Navarro, Thomas J. O’Connell, and Adam Fil Mendez Won [40]
[41]
Denver Film Critics Society
January 13, 2014 Best Picture Gravity Won [42]
[43]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Film Gravity Won
Detroit Film Critics Society
December 13, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [44]
[45]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Directors Guild of America Award
January 25, 2014 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Alfonso Cuarón Won [16]
Dorian Awards
January 21, 2014 Film of the Year Gravity Nominated [46]
[47]
Film Performance of the Year – Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Visually Striking Film of the Year Gravity Won
Wilde Artist of the Year Alfonso Cuarón Nominated
Empire Awards
March 30, 2014 Best Film Gravity Won [48]
[49]
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Gravity Nominated
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Golden Globe Awards
January 12, 2014 Best Motion Picture – Drama Gravity Nominated [11]
[12]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Golden Tomato Awards
January 9, 2014 Wide Release Gravity Won [50]
Action/Adventure Gravity Won
Grammy Awards
February 8, 2015 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Steven Price Nominated [51]
Hollywood Film Festival
October 17, 2013 Actress of the Year Sandra Bullock Won [52]
Houston Film Critics Society
December 15, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [53]
[54]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Hugo Awards
August 17, 2014 Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Alfonso Cuarón (writer and director) and Jonás Cuarón (writer) Won [55]
International Online Film Critics' Poll
January 25, 2015 Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won [56]
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Visual Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould Won
Irish Film & Television Awards
April 5, 2014 International Film Gravity Nominated [57]
[58]
International Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Kansas City Film Critics Circle
December 15, 2013 Best Director Alfonso Cuarón (tied with Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave) Tied [59]
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Kids' Choice Awards
March 29, 2014 Favorite Movie Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated [60]
Favorite Female Buttkicker
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
December 18, 2013 LVFCS Top 10 Films of 2013 Gravity 3rd place [61]
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Art Direction Andy Nicholson Won
Best Film Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Visual Effects Gravity Won
London Film Critics Circle Awards
February 2, 2014 Film of the Year Gravity Nominated [62]
[63]
Actress of the Year Sandra Bullock Nominated
Director of the Year Alfonso Cuarón Won
Technical Achievement Award Tim Webber (special effects) Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
December 8, 2013 Best Film Gravity (tied with Her) Tied [64]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards
February 16, 2014 Best Sound Editing: Music Score in a Feature Film Christopher Benstead Nominated [65]
[66]
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects & Foley in a Feature Film Glenn Freemantle Won
Best Sound Editing: Dialogue & ADR in a Feature Film Glenn Freemantle Nominated
MTV Movie Awards
April 13, 2014 Best Female Performance Sandra Bullock Nominated [67]
National Board of Review
December 4, 2013 Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Alfonso Cuarón Won [21]
Top Ten Films Gravity Won
New York Film Critics Online
December 8, 2013 Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won [68]
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
North Texas Film Critics Association
January 7, 2014 Best Picture Gravity Won [69]
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards
December 16, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [70]
[71]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Palm Springs International Film Festival
January 13, 2014 Desert Palm Achievement Award Sandra Bullock Won [72]
People's Choice Awards
January 8, 2014 Favorite Dramatic Movie Gravity Won [73]
Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Favorite Movie Duo Sandra Bullock and George Clooney Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society
December 17, 2013 Top 10 Films Gravity Won [74]
[75]
Best Film Gravity Nominated
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Screenplay – Original Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Film Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Won
Best Visual Effects Chris Howell, Chris Lawrence, and Tim Webber Won
Producers Guild of America Awards
January 19, 2014 Best Theatrical Motion Picture Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman (tied with Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, and Dede Gardner for 12 Years a Slave) Tied [76]
San Diego Film Critics Society
December 11, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [77]
[78]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Nominated
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
December 13, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [79]
[80]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson Won
Satellite Awards
February 23, 2014 Best Motion Picture Gravity Nominated [81]
[82]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress – Motion Picture Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated
Best Visual Effects Chris Howell, Chris Lawrence, and Tim Webber Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Glenn Freemantle, Niv Adiri, and Skip Lievsay Won
Saturn Awards
June 26, 2014 Best Science Fiction Film Gravity Won [18]
[83]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Writing Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Best Supporting Actor George Clooney Nominated
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Special Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould Won
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
May 17, 2014 Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Won [84]
Screen Actors Guild Awards
January 18, 2014 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Nominated [17]
Society of Camera Operators Awards
March 8, 2014 Camera Operator of the Year – Feature Film Peter Taylor Won [85]
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
December 16, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [86]
[87]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Runner-up
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Runner-up
Best Visual Special Effects Chris Howell, Chris Lawrence, and Tim Webber Won
Best Musical Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Scene "The opening tracking shot" Runner-up
Utah Film Critics Association
December 20, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Won [88]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock (tied with Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine) Runner-up
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Venice Film Festival
September 7, 2013 Future Film Digital Award Alfonso Cuarón Won [2]
[3]
Visual Effects Society Awards
February 12, 2014 Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture Tim Webber, Nikki Penny, Chris Lawrence, and Richard McBride Won [19]
[89]
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Max Solomon, Mathieu Vig, Michael Brunet, and David Shirk Nominated
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Interior:
Harry Bardak, Nathan Walster, Jonathan Fawkner, and Claire Michaud
Exterior:
 Paul Beilby, Kyle McCulloch, Stuart Penn, and Ian Comley Won
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Tim Webber, Emmanuel Lubezki, Richard McBride, and Dale Newton Won
Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture Ben Lambert, Paul Beilby, Chris Lawrence, and Andy Nicholson Won
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Alexis Wajsbrot, Sylvain Degrotte, Horacio Mendoza, and Juan‐Luis Sanchez Won
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture Mark Bakowski, Anthony Smith, Theodor Groeneboom, and Adrian Metzelaar Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
December 9, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [90]
[91]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Art Direction Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Score Steven Price Nominated

^[I] Each date is linked to the article about the awards held that year wherever possible.
See also[edit]
2013 in film
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients and have runner-ups. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally.
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10.^ Jump up to: a b "Oscars 2014 Winners: The Complete List". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). March 2, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
11.^ Jump up to: a b "Golden Globes Nominations: The Full List". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). January 11, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
12.^ Jump up to: a b "Golden Globe Awards Winners". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). January 12, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
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14.^ Jump up to: a b "Bafta Film Awards 2014: Full list of winners". BBC News. February 16, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
15.Jump up ^ "PGA Awards: 'Gravity,' '12 Years a Slave' Win Guild's Top Prize in Unprecedented Tie". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 19, 2014.
16.^ Jump up to: a b "Alfonso Cuaron scoops top Directors Guild prize". BBC News. January 26, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Kilday, Gregg (December 11, 2013). "Screen Actors Guild Awards: '12 Years a Slave' leads Screen Actors Guild nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "‘Gravity,’ ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Lead Saturn Awards Noms". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). February 25, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
19.^ Jump up to: a b "VES Awards: ‘Gravity’ Wins 6 Including Top Prize; ‘Frozen’ Goes 4-For-4; 3 Nods For ‘Game Of Thrones’". Deadline.com. February 12, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
20.^ Jump up to: a b "AFI Awards 2013: Top 10 Films List Is Good News For Major Studios". Deadline.com. December 9, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
21.^ Jump up to: a b "National Board of Review Announces 2013 Award Winners". National Board of Review. December 4, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
22.Jump up ^ "AARP Names ’12 Years a Slave’ Best Movie for Grownups". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). January 6, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
23.Jump up ^ "2014 Oscar Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. January 16, 2014. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
24.Jump up ^ "2013 African-American Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ "2013 EDA Award Nominees". Alliance of Women Film Journalists. December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
26.Jump up ^ "2013 EDA Award Winners". Alliance of Women Film Journalists. December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
27.Jump up ^ "Film Editors Unveil ACE Eddie Award Nominations". Deadline.com. January 20, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
28.Jump up ^ "28th Annual ASC Awards: ‘Gravity’s Emmanuel Lubezki Wins Feature Film Honor; TV Winners Include ‘Killing Lincoln’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Drunk History’". Deadline.com. February 1, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
29.Jump up ^ "Winners Announced". Art Directors Guild. February 8, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
30.Jump up ^ "2013 AACTA International Awards". HitFix. January 13, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
31.Jump up ^ "'Gravity' Wins Best Film At Australian Academy Awards; '12 Years A Slave' Nabs Two Acting Nods". Deadline.com. 11 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
32.Jump up ^ "Denmark’s Bodil Prizes: ‘Nympho-maniac’, ‘The Hunt’ Lead Nominations". Deadline.com. January 7, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
33.Jump up ^ "2013 Boston Online Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
34.Jump up ^ "2013 Boston Society of Film Critics winners". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
35.Jump up ^ "American Hustle, 12 Years A Slave Lead BFCA’s Critics Choice Movie Awards Nominations". Deadline.com. December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
36.Jump up ^ "Critics' Choice Awards: The Winners". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 17, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
37.Jump up ^ "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 31, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
38.Jump up ^ "2013 Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
39.Jump up ^ "Chicago film critics name '12 Years a Slave' 2013's best movie". The Daily Herald. December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
40.Jump up ^ "Cinema Audio Society Unveils Nominations For The 50th Annual CAS Awards". Deadline.com. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
41.Jump up ^ "Cinema Audio Society Awards: 'Gravity', 'Frozen' Take Film Honors". Deadline.com. February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
42.Jump up ^ "2013 Denver Film Critics Society Nominations". HitFix. December 6, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
43.Jump up ^ "2013 Denver Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. January 22, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
44.Jump up ^ "The 2013 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards Nominations". Detroit Film Critics Society. December 9, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
45.Jump up ^ "2013 Detroit Film Critics Society Winners". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
46.Jump up ^ "'12 Years a Slave,' 'American Hustle' Among Dorian Award Nominees (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 14, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
47.Jump up ^ "2013 Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association Awards". HitFix. January 22, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
48.Jump up ^ "The Jameson Empire Awards 2014 Nominations Are Here!". Empire. February 24, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
49.Jump up ^ "Jameson Empire Awards 2014: The Winners". Empire. March 31, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
50.Jump up ^ "The 15th Annual Golden Tomato". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
51.Jump up ^ "Grammy Nominees 2015: The Full List". Forbes. December 5, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
52.Jump up ^ "Hollywood Film Awards: Sandra Bullock Thanks Hollywood for Making Her a Better Parent (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). October 22, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
53.Jump up ^ "2013 Houston Film Critics Society nominations". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
54.Jump up ^ "2013 Houston Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. December 15, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
55.Jump up ^ "2014 Hugo Award Winners". The Hugo Awards. August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
56.Jump up ^ "Winners of the 2013 – 2014 International Online Film Critics’ Poll Announced". Monsters and Critics. January 26, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
57.Jump up ^ "Award Categories". Irish Film & Television Awards. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
58.Jump up ^ "IFTA Announces Winners of the 11th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards". Irish Film and Television Network. April 5, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
59.Jump up ^ "2013 Kansas City Film Critics Circle winners". HitFix. December 15, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
60.Jump up ^ "Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards Nominations Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). February 24, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
61.Jump up ^ "2013 Las Vegas Film Critics' Society Award winners". HitFix. December 18, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
62.Jump up ^ "London Critics’ Circle Announces 2014 Film Awards Nominations". London Film Critics Circle. December 17, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
63.Jump up ^ "2013 London Film Critics' Circle winners". HitFix. February 2, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
64.Jump up ^ "‘Gravity,’ ‘Her’ Tie for Best Picture With L.A. Film Critics". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). December 8, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
65.Jump up ^ Walsh, Jason (January 15, 2014). "Sound Editors Announce 2013 Golden Reel Nominees". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). Retrieved January 15, 2014.
66.Jump up ^ "Complete list of 2014 Golden Reel award winners". Los Angeles Times. February 16, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
67.Jump up ^ "2014 MTV Movie Awards: Full Nominations List". MTV. March 6, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
68.Jump up ^ Gray, Tim (December 8, 2013). "’12 Years’ Tops New York Online Critics Awards". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). Retrieved December 20, 2013.
69.Jump up ^ "2013 North Texas Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. January 5, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
70.Jump up ^ "Online Film Critics Announce Nominees; Miyazaki and To Surprise with Multiple Nominations". Indiewire (Snagfilms). December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
71.Jump up ^ "2013 Online Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. December 16, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
72.Jump up ^ "Palm Springs Film Fest: Sandra Bullock to Receive Acting Honor for 'Gravity'". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). November 15, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
73.Jump up ^ "People's Choice Awards: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 8, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
74.Jump up ^ "Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Award Nominations". Phoenix Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
75.Jump up ^ "Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Awards". Phoenix Film Critics Society. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
76.Jump up ^ "25th Annual PGA Awards: First-Ever Tie For Best Motion Picture — ‘Gravity’ And ‘12 Years A Slave’; ‘Breaking Bad’ & ‘Modern Family’ Take Top TV Awards; Winners List". Deadline.com. January 19, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
77.Jump up ^ "San Diego Film Critics Nominate Top Films for 2013". San Diego Film Critics Society. December 10, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
78.Jump up ^ "2013 San Diego Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. December 11, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
79.Jump up ^ "2013 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Nominations". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
80.Jump up ^ "2013 San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners". HitFix. December 15, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
81.Jump up ^ Kilday, Gregg (December 2, 2013). "Satellite Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Leads Film Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). Retrieved December 20, 2013.
82.Jump up ^ "Satellite Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Wins Best Motion Picture". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). February 23, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
83.Jump up ^ "'Gravity,' 'Iron Man 3,' 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead' lead 2014 Saturn Award winners". HitFix. June 27, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
84.Jump up ^ "2013 Nebula Awards Winners Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. May 17, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
85.Jump up ^ "‘Midnight Rider’ Victim Sarah Jones Memorialized at Camera Operators Awards Ceremony Among Honors For ‘Gravity’ And ‘Mad Men’". Deadline.com. March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
86.Jump up ^ "St. Louis Film Critics Awards Nominees For 2013 Announced". St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association. December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
87.Jump up ^ "2013 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 16, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
88.Jump up ^ "2013 Utah Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 20, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
89.Jump up ^ "‘Gravity’ Tops Visual Effects Society Nominations". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
90.Jump up ^ "2013 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association nominations". HitFix. December 9, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
91.Jump up ^ "2013 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
External links[edit]
Accolades for Gravity at Internet Movie Database
  


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Photograph of producer David Heyman, actress Sandra Bullock and director Alfonso Cuarón attending San Diego Comic-Con in 2013
From left: producer David Heyman, actress Sandra Bullock, and director Alfonso Cuarón at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013

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Total number of awards and nominations[Note 1]
Totals 127 206
References
Gravity is a 2013 3D science-fiction thriller film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by Alfonso Cuarón. The film's musical score was composed by Steven Price, with the cinematography provided by Cuarón's longtime collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki.[1] The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts involved in the mid-orbit destruction of a space shuttle and their attempt to return to Earth.
Gravity premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013 where it won the Future Film Festival Digital Award.[2][3] The film then received a wide release at over 3,500 theaters in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2013 by Warner Bros.[4] On its opening weekend, it grossed over $55 million which broke the North American opening weekend record for the month of October.[5] Gravity has grossed a worldwide total of over $716 million on a budget of $100 million.[4] As of 2014, it is both Bullock's and Clooney's highest grossing film to date.[6][7] Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 305 reviews and judged 97 percent to be positive.[8]
Gravity has garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction, cinematography, score, and visual effects. The film received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards, the most nominations of 2014's ceremony tied with American Hustle.[9] It went on to earn the most awards at the ceremony, winning seven including Best Director for Cuarón, Best Cinematography for Lubezki, Best Original Score for Price, and Best Visual Effects.[10] The film received four nominations at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, with Cuarón winning for Best Director.[11][12] Gravity led the nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards with eleven nominations.[13] The film won six awards, the most at the ceremony, including Outstanding British Film, Best Director for Cuarón, Best Cinematography for Lubezki, Best Original Music for Price, and Best Visual Effects.[14]
At the Producers Guild Awards, Gravity tied for Best Theatrical Motion Picture with 12 Years a Slave.[15] Cuarón received the Best Director award from the Directors Guild of America and Bullock was also nominated for Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.[16][17] At the 40th Saturn Awards, Gravity joint-led the nominations with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, both films receiving eight nominations.[18] The film went on to win five Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Cuarón and Best Actress for Bullock. The film's visual effects were acclaimed by the Visual Effects Society, which gave the film six awards including their top award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Film.[19] Both the American Film Institute and National Board of Review included the film in their list of top ten films of 2013.[20][21]


Contents  [hide]
1 Accolades
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

Accolades[edit]

Award
Date
Category
Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
Result
Ref(s)


AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards
January 6, 2014 Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won [22]
Academy Awards
March 2, 2014 Best Picture Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Nominated [10]
[23]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, and Joanne Woodlard Nominated
Best Film Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Best Sound Editing Glenn Freemantle Won
Best Sound Mixing Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, and Chris Munro Won
Best Visual Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould Won
African-American Film Critics Association
December 13, 2013 Top Ten Films of the Year Gravity 5th place [24]
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
December 19, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [25]
[26]
Best Director (Female or Male) Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Music or Score Steven Price Nominated
Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star Sandra Bullock Won
Actress Defying Age and Agism Won
AWJF Female Icon Award Sandra Bullock "for the strong, capable and very positive female image presented in Gravity" Nominated
Unforgettable Moment Award "George Clooney reappears" Nominated
American Cinema Editors
February 7, 2014 Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated [27]
American Film Institute
January 10, 2014 Top 10 Movies of the Year Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Won [20]
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
February 1, 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Emmanuel Lubezki Won [28]
Art Directors Guild
February 8, 2014 Excellence in Production Design – Fantasy Film Andy Nicholson Won [29]
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts International Awards
January 10, 2014 Best Film Gravity Won [30]
[31]
Best Direction Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Bodil Awards
February 1, 2014 Best US Feature Gravity Nominated [32]
Boston Online Film Critics Association
December 7, 2013 Top 10 Films of the Year Gravity 4th place [33]
Boston Society of Film Critics
December 8, 2013 Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won [34]
British Academy Film Awards
February 16, 2014 Best Film Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Nominated [13]
[14]
Outstanding British Film Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, and Jonás Cuarón Won
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Original Music Steven Price Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, and Joanne Woodlard Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated
Best Sound Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, and Chris Munro Won
Best Special Visual Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, and Nikki Penny Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association
January 16, 2014 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [35]
[36]
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Gravity Won
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Actress in an Action Movie Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Art Direction Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Score Steven Price Won
Best Visual Effects Gravity Won
César Awards
February 28, 2014 Best Foreign Film Gravity Nominated [37]
Chicago Film Critics Association
December 13, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [38]
[39]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Art Direction/Production Design Gravity Won
Cinema Audio Society Awards
February 22, 2014 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Live Action Chris Munro, Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Gareth Cousins, Chris Navarro, Thomas J. O’Connell, and Adam Fil Mendez Won [40]
[41]
Denver Film Critics Society
January 13, 2014 Best Picture Gravity Won [42]
[43]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Film Gravity Won
Detroit Film Critics Society
December 13, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [44]
[45]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Directors Guild of America Award
January 25, 2014 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Alfonso Cuarón Won [16]
Dorian Awards
January 21, 2014 Film of the Year Gravity Nominated [46]
[47]
Film Performance of the Year – Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Visually Striking Film of the Year Gravity Won
Wilde Artist of the Year Alfonso Cuarón Nominated
Empire Awards
March 30, 2014 Best Film Gravity Won [48]
[49]
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Gravity Nominated
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Golden Globe Awards
January 12, 2014 Best Motion Picture – Drama Gravity Nominated [11]
[12]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Golden Tomato Awards
January 9, 2014 Wide Release Gravity Won [50]
Action/Adventure Gravity Won
Grammy Awards
February 8, 2015 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Steven Price Nominated [51]
Hollywood Film Festival
October 17, 2013 Actress of the Year Sandra Bullock Won [52]
Houston Film Critics Society
December 15, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [53]
[54]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Hugo Awards
August 17, 2014 Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Alfonso Cuarón (writer and director) and Jonás Cuarón (writer) Won [55]
International Online Film Critics' Poll
January 25, 2015 Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won [56]
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Visual Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould Won
Irish Film & Television Awards
April 5, 2014 International Film Gravity Nominated [57]
[58]
International Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Kansas City Film Critics Circle
December 15, 2013 Best Director Alfonso Cuarón (tied with Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave) Tied [59]
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Kids' Choice Awards
March 29, 2014 Favorite Movie Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated [60]
Favorite Female Buttkicker
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
December 18, 2013 LVFCS Top 10 Films of 2013 Gravity 3rd place [61]
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Art Direction Andy Nicholson Won
Best Film Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Visual Effects Gravity Won
London Film Critics Circle Awards
February 2, 2014 Film of the Year Gravity Nominated [62]
[63]
Actress of the Year Sandra Bullock Nominated
Director of the Year Alfonso Cuarón Won
Technical Achievement Award Tim Webber (special effects) Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
December 8, 2013 Best Film Gravity (tied with Her) Tied [64]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards
February 16, 2014 Best Sound Editing: Music Score in a Feature Film Christopher Benstead Nominated [65]
[66]
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects & Foley in a Feature Film Glenn Freemantle Won
Best Sound Editing: Dialogue & ADR in a Feature Film Glenn Freemantle Nominated
MTV Movie Awards
April 13, 2014 Best Female Performance Sandra Bullock Nominated [67]
National Board of Review
December 4, 2013 Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Alfonso Cuarón Won [21]
Top Ten Films Gravity Won
New York Film Critics Online
December 8, 2013 Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won [68]
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
North Texas Film Critics Association
January 7, 2014 Best Picture Gravity Won [69]
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards
December 16, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [70]
[71]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Palm Springs International Film Festival
January 13, 2014 Desert Palm Achievement Award Sandra Bullock Won [72]
People's Choice Awards
January 8, 2014 Favorite Dramatic Movie Gravity Won [73]
Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Favorite Movie Duo Sandra Bullock and George Clooney Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society
December 17, 2013 Top 10 Films Gravity Won [74]
[75]
Best Film Gravity Nominated
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Screenplay – Original Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Film Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Won
Best Visual Effects Chris Howell, Chris Lawrence, and Tim Webber Won
Producers Guild of America Awards
January 19, 2014 Best Theatrical Motion Picture Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman (tied with Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, and Dede Gardner for 12 Years a Slave) Tied [76]
San Diego Film Critics Society
December 11, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [77]
[78]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated
Best Original Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Nominated
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
December 13, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [79]
[80]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson Won
Satellite Awards
February 23, 2014 Best Motion Picture Gravity Nominated [81]
[82]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress – Motion Picture Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Nominated
Best Visual Effects Chris Howell, Chris Lawrence, and Tim Webber Won
Best Original Score Steven Price Won
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Glenn Freemantle, Niv Adiri, and Skip Lievsay Won
Saturn Awards
June 26, 2014 Best Science Fiction Film Gravity Won [18]
[83]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Writing Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Nominated
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Won
Best Supporting Actor George Clooney Nominated
Best Production Design Andy Nicholson Nominated
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Special Effects Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould Won
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
May 17, 2014 Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón Won [84]
Screen Actors Guild Awards
January 18, 2014 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Nominated [17]
Society of Camera Operators Awards
March 8, 2014 Camera Operator of the Year – Feature Film Peter Taylor Won [85]
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
December 16, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Nominated [86]
[87]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Runner-up
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Runner-up
Best Visual Special Effects Chris Howell, Chris Lawrence, and Tim Webber Won
Best Musical Score Steven Price Nominated
Best Scene "The opening tracking shot" Runner-up
Utah Film Critics Association
December 20, 2013 Best Picture Gravity Won [88]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock (tied with Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine) Runner-up
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Venice Film Festival
September 7, 2013 Future Film Digital Award Alfonso Cuarón Won [2]
[3]
Visual Effects Society Awards
February 12, 2014 Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture Tim Webber, Nikki Penny, Chris Lawrence, and Richard McBride Won [19]
[89]
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Max Solomon, Mathieu Vig, Michael Brunet, and David Shirk Nominated
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Interior:
Harry Bardak, Nathan Walster, Jonathan Fawkner, and Claire Michaud
Exterior:
 Paul Beilby, Kyle McCulloch, Stuart Penn, and Ian Comley Won
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Tim Webber, Emmanuel Lubezki, Richard McBride, and Dale Newton Won
Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture Ben Lambert, Paul Beilby, Chris Lawrence, and Andy Nicholson Won
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Alexis Wajsbrot, Sylvain Degrotte, Horacio Mendoza, and Juan‐Luis Sanchez Won
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture Mark Bakowski, Anthony Smith, Theodor Groeneboom, and Adrian Metzelaar Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
December 9, 2013 Best Film Gravity Nominated [90]
[91]
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón Won
Best Actress Sandra Bullock Nominated
Best Art Direction Andy Nicholson and Rosie Goodwin Nominated
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Won
Best Editing Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Won
Best Score Steven Price Nominated

^[I] Each date is linked to the article about the awards held that year wherever possible.
See also[edit]
2013 in film
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients and have runner-ups. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally.
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20.^ Jump up to: a b "AFI Awards 2013: Top 10 Films List Is Good News For Major Studios". Deadline.com. December 9, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
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25.Jump up ^ "2013 EDA Award Nominees". Alliance of Women Film Journalists. December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
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27.Jump up ^ "Film Editors Unveil ACE Eddie Award Nominations". Deadline.com. January 20, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
28.Jump up ^ "28th Annual ASC Awards: ‘Gravity’s Emmanuel Lubezki Wins Feature Film Honor; TV Winners Include ‘Killing Lincoln’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Drunk History’". Deadline.com. February 1, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
29.Jump up ^ "Winners Announced". Art Directors Guild. February 8, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
30.Jump up ^ "2013 AACTA International Awards". HitFix. January 13, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
31.Jump up ^ "'Gravity' Wins Best Film At Australian Academy Awards; '12 Years A Slave' Nabs Two Acting Nods". Deadline.com. 11 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
32.Jump up ^ "Denmark’s Bodil Prizes: ‘Nympho-maniac’, ‘The Hunt’ Lead Nominations". Deadline.com. January 7, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
33.Jump up ^ "2013 Boston Online Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
34.Jump up ^ "2013 Boston Society of Film Critics winners". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
35.Jump up ^ "American Hustle, 12 Years A Slave Lead BFCA’s Critics Choice Movie Awards Nominations". Deadline.com. December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
36.Jump up ^ "Critics' Choice Awards: The Winners". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 17, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
37.Jump up ^ "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 31, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
38.Jump up ^ "2013 Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
39.Jump up ^ "Chicago film critics name '12 Years a Slave' 2013's best movie". The Daily Herald. December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
40.Jump up ^ "Cinema Audio Society Unveils Nominations For The 50th Annual CAS Awards". Deadline.com. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
41.Jump up ^ "Cinema Audio Society Awards: 'Gravity', 'Frozen' Take Film Honors". Deadline.com. February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
42.Jump up ^ "2013 Denver Film Critics Society Nominations". HitFix. December 6, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
43.Jump up ^ "2013 Denver Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. January 22, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
44.Jump up ^ "The 2013 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards Nominations". Detroit Film Critics Society. December 9, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
45.Jump up ^ "2013 Detroit Film Critics Society Winners". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
46.Jump up ^ "'12 Years a Slave,' 'American Hustle' Among Dorian Award Nominees (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 14, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
47.Jump up ^ "2013 Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association Awards". HitFix. January 22, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
48.Jump up ^ "The Jameson Empire Awards 2014 Nominations Are Here!". Empire. February 24, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
49.Jump up ^ "Jameson Empire Awards 2014: The Winners". Empire. March 31, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
50.Jump up ^ "The 15th Annual Golden Tomato". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
51.Jump up ^ "Grammy Nominees 2015: The Full List". Forbes. December 5, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
52.Jump up ^ "Hollywood Film Awards: Sandra Bullock Thanks Hollywood for Making Her a Better Parent (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). October 22, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
53.Jump up ^ "2013 Houston Film Critics Society nominations". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
54.Jump up ^ "2013 Houston Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. December 15, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
55.Jump up ^ "2014 Hugo Award Winners". The Hugo Awards. August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
56.Jump up ^ "Winners of the 2013 – 2014 International Online Film Critics’ Poll Announced". Monsters and Critics. January 26, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
57.Jump up ^ "Award Categories". Irish Film & Television Awards. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
58.Jump up ^ "IFTA Announces Winners of the 11th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards". Irish Film and Television Network. April 5, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
59.Jump up ^ "2013 Kansas City Film Critics Circle winners". HitFix. December 15, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
60.Jump up ^ "Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards Nominations Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). February 24, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
61.Jump up ^ "2013 Las Vegas Film Critics' Society Award winners". HitFix. December 18, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
62.Jump up ^ "London Critics’ Circle Announces 2014 Film Awards Nominations". London Film Critics Circle. December 17, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
63.Jump up ^ "2013 London Film Critics' Circle winners". HitFix. February 2, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
64.Jump up ^ "‘Gravity,’ ‘Her’ Tie for Best Picture With L.A. Film Critics". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). December 8, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
65.Jump up ^ Walsh, Jason (January 15, 2014). "Sound Editors Announce 2013 Golden Reel Nominees". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). Retrieved January 15, 2014.
66.Jump up ^ "Complete list of 2014 Golden Reel award winners". Los Angeles Times. February 16, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
67.Jump up ^ "2014 MTV Movie Awards: Full Nominations List". MTV. March 6, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
68.Jump up ^ Gray, Tim (December 8, 2013). "’12 Years’ Tops New York Online Critics Awards". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). Retrieved December 20, 2013.
69.Jump up ^ "2013 North Texas Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. January 5, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
70.Jump up ^ "Online Film Critics Announce Nominees; Miyazaki and To Surprise with Multiple Nominations". Indiewire (Snagfilms). December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
71.Jump up ^ "2013 Online Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. December 16, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
72.Jump up ^ "Palm Springs Film Fest: Sandra Bullock to Receive Acting Honor for 'Gravity'". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). November 15, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
73.Jump up ^ "People's Choice Awards: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). January 8, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
74.Jump up ^ "Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Award Nominations". Phoenix Film Critics Society. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
75.Jump up ^ "Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Awards". Phoenix Film Critics Society. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
76.Jump up ^ "25th Annual PGA Awards: First-Ever Tie For Best Motion Picture — ‘Gravity’ And ‘12 Years A Slave’; ‘Breaking Bad’ & ‘Modern Family’ Take Top TV Awards; Winners List". Deadline.com. January 19, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
77.Jump up ^ "San Diego Film Critics Nominate Top Films for 2013". San Diego Film Critics Society. December 10, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
78.Jump up ^ "2013 San Diego Film Critics Society winners". HitFix. December 11, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
79.Jump up ^ "2013 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Nominations". HitFix. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
80.Jump up ^ "2013 San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners". HitFix. December 15, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
81.Jump up ^ Kilday, Gregg (December 2, 2013). "Satellite Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Leads Film Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). Retrieved December 20, 2013.
82.Jump up ^ "Satellite Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Wins Best Motion Picture". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). February 23, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
83.Jump up ^ "'Gravity,' 'Iron Man 3,' 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead' lead 2014 Saturn Award winners". HitFix. June 27, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
84.Jump up ^ "2013 Nebula Awards Winners Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. May 17, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
85.Jump up ^ "‘Midnight Rider’ Victim Sarah Jones Memorialized at Camera Operators Awards Ceremony Among Honors For ‘Gravity’ And ‘Mad Men’". Deadline.com. March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
86.Jump up ^ "St. Louis Film Critics Awards Nominees For 2013 Announced". St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association. December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
87.Jump up ^ "2013 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 16, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
88.Jump up ^ "2013 Utah Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 20, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
89.Jump up ^ "‘Gravity’ Tops Visual Effects Society Nominations". Variety (Penske Media Corporation). January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
90.Jump up ^ "2013 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association nominations". HitFix. December 9, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
91.Jump up ^ "2013 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association winners". HitFix. December 8, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
External links[edit]
Accolades for Gravity at Internet Movie Database
  


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Gravity (film)
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Gravity
Poster
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Alfonso Cuarón
Produced by
Alfonso Cuarón
David Heyman
Screenplay by
Alfonso Cuarón
Jonás Cuarón
Starring
Sandra Bullock
George Clooney
Music by
Steven Price
Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Edited by
Alfonso Cuarón
Mark Sanger

Production
 company

Esperanto Filmoj
Heyday Films

Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures

Release dates

August 28, 2013 (Venice)
October 4, 2013 (United States)
November 8, 2013 (United Kingdom)


Running time
 91 minutes[1]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
 United States[2]
Language
English
Budget
$100 million[3]
Box office
$716.4 million[3]
Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Alfonso Cuarón. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts, and sees them stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle and their subsequent attempt to return to Earth.
Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the film at Universal Pictures. The rights were sold to Warner Bros. Pictures, where the project eventually found traction. David Heyman, who previously worked with Cuarón on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), produced the film with him. Gravity was produced entirely in the UK, where the British visual effects company Framestore spent more than three years creating most of the film's visual effects, which comprise over 80 of its 91 minutes.
Gravity opened the 70th Venice International Film Festival on 28 August 2013 and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. It was released to cinemas in the United States and Canada on 4 October 2013. The film was met with near-universal critical acclaim and was regarded as one of the best films of 2013. Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography, Steven Price's musical score, Cuarón's direction, Bullock's performance and Framestore's visual effects were all particularly praised by numerous critics. The film became the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2013 with a worldwide gross of over US$716 million.
At the 86th Academy Awards, Gravity received a leading ten nominations—tying with American Hustle—and won seven, the most for the ceremony, including Best Director for Cuarón, Best Cinematography for Lubezki, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Score for Price. The film was also awarded six BAFTA Awards, including Outstanding British Film and Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and seven Critics Choice Awards.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
4 Themes
5 Music
6 Release 6.1 Box office
6.2 Critical response 6.2.1 Top ten lists
6.3 Piracy
6.4 Accolades
6.5 Budget comparison to real life space explorations
6.6 Home media
7 Scientific accuracy
8 Lawsuit
9 See also
10 References
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Plot[edit]
Dr. Ryan Stone is a biomedical engineer aboard the NASA space shuttle Explorer for her first space mission, STS-157. Veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski is commanding his final mission. During a spacewalk to service the Hubble Space Telescope and Stone's upgrades to the Telescope, Mission Control in Houston warns the team about a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite, which has inadvertently caused a chain reaction forming a cloud of debris in space. Mission Control orders that the mission be aborted and the shuttle begin re-entry immediately because the debris is speeding towards the telescope. Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly thereafter.
High speed debris from the Russian satellite strikes the Explorer and Hubble, detaching Stone from the shuttle and leaving her tumbling through space. Kowalski, using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU), recovers Stone and they return to the Explorer. They discover that it has suffered catastrophic damage and the rest of the crew is dead. They use the MMU to reach the International Space Station (ISS), which is in orbit about 1,450 km (900 mi) away. Kowalski estimates they have 90 minutes before the debris field completes an orbit and threatens them again.
En route to the ISS, the two discuss Stone's home life and the death of her young daughter. As they approach the substantially damaged but still operational ISS, they see its crew has evacuated in one of its two Soyuz modules. The parachute of the remaining Soyuz has deployed, rendering the capsule useless for returning to Earth. Kowalski suggests using it to travel to the nearby Chinese space station Tiangong, 100 km (60 mi) away, in order to board a Chinese module to return safely to Earth. Out of air and maneuvering power, the two try to grab onto the ISS as they fly by. Stone's leg gets entangled in Soyuz's parachute cords and she grabs a strap on Kowalski's suit. Despite Stone's protests, Kowalski detaches himself from the tether to save her from drifting away with him, and she is pulled back towards the ISS while Kowalski floats away to certain death. He continues to support her until he is out of communications reach.
Stone enters the ISS via an airlock. She cannot re-establish communication with Kowalski and concludes that she is the sole survivor. A fire breaks out, forcing her to rush to the Soyuz. As she maneuvers the capsule away from the ISS, the tangled parachute tethers prevent it from separating from the station. She spacewalks to release the cables, succeeding just as the debris field completes its orbit and destroys the station. Stone aligns the Soyuz with Tiangong but discovers that its engine has no fuel.
After a poignant attempt at radio communication with an Eskimo–Aleut-speaking fisherman on Earth, Stone resigns herself to being stranded and shuts down the cabin's oxygen supply to commit suicide. As she begins to lose consciousness, Kowalski enters the capsule. Scolding her for giving up, he tells her to rig the Soyuz's landing rockets to propel the capsule toward Tiangong. Stone then realizes that Kowalski's reappearance was not real, but has nonetheless given her the strength of will to continue. She restores the flow of oxygen and uses the landing rockets to navigate toward Tiangong, which is rapidly deorbiting.
Unable to maneuver the Soyuz to dock with the station, Stone ejects herself via explosive decompression and uses a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel the final meters to Tiangong. Stone enters the Shenzhou capsule just as Tiangong starts to break up on the upper edge of the atmosphere. Stone radios that she is ready to head back to Earth. After re-entering the atmosphere, Stone hears Mission Control, which is tracking the capsule. But due to a harsh reentry and the premature separation of the heat shield a fire is starting inside the capsule.
After speeding through the atmosphere, the capsule lands in a lake, but dense smoke forces Stone to evacuate immediately after the splashdown. She opens the capsule hatch, allowing water to enter and sink it, forcing Stone to shed her spacesuit and swim ashore. She watches the remains of the Tiangong re-enter the atmosphere and takes her first shaky steps on land.
Cast[edit]



Sandra Bullock

George Clooney

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star as Dr. Ryan Stone and Lieutenant Matt Kowalski respectively.
##Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone,[4] a medical engineer and mission specialist who is on her first space mission.[5]
##George Clooney as Lieutenant Matt Kowalski,[4] the commander of the team. Kowalski is a veteran astronaut planning to retire after the Explorer expedition. He enjoys telling stories about himself and joking with his team, and is determined to protect the lives of his fellow astronauts.[6]
##Ed Harris (voice) as Mission Control in Houston, Texas.[4][7]
##Orto Ignatiussen (voice) as Aningaaq,[4] a Greenlandic Inuit fisherman who intercepts one of Stone's transmissions. Aningaaq also appears in a self-titled short written and directed by Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón, which depicts the conversation between him and Stone from his perspective.[8][9]
##Phaldut Sharma (voice) as Shariff Dasari,[4] the flight engineer on board the Explorer.[10]
##Amy Warren (voice) as the captain of Explorer.[4]
##Basher Savage (voice) as the captain of the International Space Station.[4]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Alfonso Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás. Cuarón told Wired magazine, "I watched the Gregory Peck movie Marooned (1969) over and over as a kid."[11] That film is about the first crew of an experimental space station returning to Earth in an Apollo capsule that suffers a thruster malfunction. Cuarón attempted to develop his project at Universal Pictures, where it stayed in development for several years. After the rights to the project were sold, the project began development at Warner Bros., who acquired the project. In 2010, Angelina Jolie, who had rejected a sequel to Wanted (2008), was in contact with Warner Bros. to star in the film.[5][12] Scheduling conflicts involving Jolie's Bosnian war film In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), and a possible Salt (2009) sequel led Jolie to exit her involvement with Gravity, leaving Warner Bros. with doubts that the film would get made.[5]
In March, Robert Downey, Jr. entered discussions to be cast in the male lead role.[13] In mid-2010, Marion Cotillard attended a screen test for the female lead role. By August 2010, Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively were potential candidates for the role.[14] In September, Cuarón received approval from Warner Bros. to offer the role without a screen test to Natalie Portman, who was praised for her performance in Black Swan (2010) at that time.[15] Portman rejected the project because of scheduling conflicts and Warner Bros. then approached Sandra Bullock for the role.[5] In November 2010, Downey left the project to star in How to Talk to Girls—a project in development with Shawn Levy attached to direct.[16] The following December, with Bullock signed for the co-lead role, George Clooney replaced Downey.[6]
The problem of shooting long scenes in a zero-g environment was a challenge. Eventually, the team decided to use computer-generated imagery for the spacewalk scenes and automotive robots to move Bullock's character for interior space station scenes.[17] This meant that shots and blocking had to be planned well in advance for the robots to be programmed.[17] It also made the production period much longer than expected. When the script was finalized, Cuarón assumed it would take about a year to complete the film, but it took four and a half years.[18]
Filming[edit]



 The landing scene was filmed at Lake Powell, Arizona.
Made on a production budget of $100 million, Gravity was filmed digitally on multiple Arri Alexa cameras. Principal photography began in late May 2011.[19] CG elements were shot at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom.[20] The landing scene was filmed at Lake Powell, Arizona—where the astronauts' landing scene in Planet of the Apes (1968) was also filmed.[21] Visual effects were supervised by Tim Webber at the London-based VFX company Framestore, which was responsible for creating most of the film's visual effects—except for 17 shots. Framestore was also heavily involved in the art direction and, along with The Third Floor, the previsualization. Tim Webber stated that 80 percent of the movie consisted of CG—compared to James Cameron's Avatar (2009), which was 60 percent CG.[22] To simulate the authenticity and reflection of unfiltered light in space, a manually controlled lighting system consisting of 1.8 million individually controlled LED lights was built.[23] The 3D imagery was designed and supervised by Chris Parks. The majority of the 3D was created by stereo rendering the CG at Framestore. The remaining footage was converted into 3D in post production—principally at Prime Focus, London, with additional conversion work by Framestore. Prime Focus's supervisor was Richard Baker.
Filming began in London in May 2011.[24] The film contains 156 shots with an average length of 45 seconds—fewer and longer shots than in most films of this length.[25] Although the first trailer had audible explosions and other sounds, these scenes are silent in the finished film. Cuarón said, "They put in explosions [in the trailer]. As we know, there is no sound in space. In the film, we don't do that."[26] The soundtrack in the film's space scenes consists of the musical score and sounds astronauts would hear in their suits or in the space vehicles.[27]
For most of Bullock's shots, she was placed inside a giant, mechanical rig.[17] Getting into the rig took a significant amount of time, so Bullock chose to stay in it for up to 10 hours a day, communicating with others through a headset.[17] Cuarón said his biggest challenge was to make the set feel as inviting and non-claustrophobic as possible. The team attempted to do this by having a celebration each day when Bullock arrived. They nicknamed the rig "Sandy's cage" and gave it a lighted sign.[17] Most of the movie was shot digitally using Arri Alexa Classics cameras equipped with wide Arri Master Prime lenses. The final scene, which takes place on Earth, was shot on an Arri 765 camera using 65mm film to provide the sequence with a visual contrast to the rest of the film.[28]
Themes[edit]
Although Gravity is often cited in the media as a science fiction film,[29] Cuarón told BBC that he sees the film rather as "a drama of a woman in space".[30]
Despite being set in space, the film uses motifs from shipwreck and wilderness survival stories about psychological change and resilience in the aftermath of catastrophe.[31][32][33][34] Cuarón uses the character, Stone, to illustrate clarity of mind, persistence, training, and improvisation in the face of isolation and the consequences of a relentless Murphy's law.[29] The film incorporates spiritual or existential themes, in the facts of Stone's daughter's accidental and meaningless death, and in the necessity of summoning the will to survive in the face of overwhelming odds, without future certainties, and with the impossibility of rescue from personal dissolution without finding this willpower.[32] Calamities occur but only the surviving astronauts see them.[35]
The impact of scenes is heightened by alternating between objective and subjective perspectives, the warm face of the Earth and the depths of dark space, the chaos and predictability of the debris field, and silence of the vacuum of space with the background score giving the desired effect.[34][36] The film uses very long, uninterrupted shots throughout to draw the audience into the action but contrasts these with claustrophobic shots within space suits and capsules.[32][37]
Some commentators have noted religious themes in the film.[38][39][40][41] For instance, Fr. Robert Barron in The Catholic Register summarizes the tension between Gravity's technology and religious symbolism. He said, "The technology which this film legitimately celebrates... can't save us, and it can't provide the means by which we establish real contact with each other. The Ganges in the sun, the St. Christopher icon, the statue of Budai, and above all, a visit from a denizen of heaven, signal that there is a dimension of reality that lies beyond what technology can master or access ... the reality of God".[41]
The film also suggests themes of humanity's ubiquitous strategy of existential resilience; that, across cultures, individuals must postulate meaning, beyond material existence, wherever none can be perceived. Human evolution and the resilience of life may also be seen as key themes of Gravity.[42][43][44][45] The film opens with the exploration of space—the climax of human civilization, and ends with an allegory of the dawn of mankind when Dr. Ryan Stone fights her way out of the water after the crash-landing, passing an amphibian, grabs the soil and slowly regains her capacity to stand upright and walk. Director Cuarón said, "She’s in these murky waters almost like an amniotic fluid or a primordial soup. In which you see amphibians swimming. She crawls out of the water, not unlike early creatures in evolution. And then she goes on all fours. And after going on all fours she’s a bit curved until she is completely erect. It was the evolution of life in one, quick shot".[43] Other imagery depicting the formation of life includes a scene in which Stone rests in an embryonic position, surrounded by a rope strongly resembling an umbilical cord. Stone's return from space, accompanied by meteorite-like debris, may be seen as a hint that elements essential to the development of life on Earth may have come from outer space in the form of meteorites.[46]
Music[edit]
Main article: Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Steven Price composed the incidental music for Gravity. In early September 2013, a 23-minute preview of the soundtrack was released online.[47] A soundtrack album was released digitally on September 17, 2013, and in physical formats on October 1, 2013, by WaterTower Music.[48] Songs featured in the film include:[49]
##"Angels Are Hard to Find" by Hank Williams, Jr.
##"Sinigit Meerannguaq" by Juaaka Lyberth
##"Destination Anywhere" by Chris Benstead and Robin Baynton
##"922 Anthem" by 922 (featuring Gaurav Dayal)
##"Ready" by Charles Scott (featuring Chelsea Williams)
In most of the film's official trailers, Spiegel im Spiegel, written by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978, was used.[50]
Release[edit]



 David Heyman, Sandra Bullock, and Alfonso Cuarón at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting Gravity
Gravity had its world premiere at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013, and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival.[51] It was released in the USA in 3D and IMAX 3D on October 4, 2013 and in the UK on November 8, 2013.[52][53] The film's US release coincided with the beginning of World Space Week, which was observed from October 4 to 10. The film was originally scheduled to be released in the US on November 21, 2012, before being re-scheduled for a 2013 release to allow the completion of extensive post-production work.[54]


Box office[edit]
Preliminary reports predicted the film would open with takings of over $10 million in North America.[55][56] The film earned $1.4 million from its Thursday night showings,[57] and reached $17.5 million on Friday.[58] Gravity topped the box office and broke the record held by Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) as the highest-earning October and autumn openings, grossing $55.8 million.[59] 80 percent of the film's opening weekend gross came from its 3D showings, which grossed $44 million. $11.2 million—20 percent of the receipts—came from IMAX 3D showings; the highest percentage for a film opening more than $50 million.[60]
The film stayed at number one at the box office during its second and third weekends.[61][62] Gravity opened at number one in the United Kingdom, taking GB£6.23 million over the first weekend of release,[63] and remained there for the second week.[64] The film's largest markets outside North America were China ($71.2m),[65] the United Kingdom ($47.0m) and France ($38.2m).[66] On February 17, 2014, the film grossed $700m worldwide.[67] Gravity grossed $274,092,705 in North America and $442,300,000 in other countries, making a worldwide gross of $716,392,705—making it the eighth-highest grossing film of 2013.[3]
Critical response[edit]



Cuarón shows things that cannot be but, miraculously, are, in the fearful, beautiful reality of the space world above our world. If the film past is dead, Gravity shows us the glory of cinema's future. It thrills on so many levels. And because Cuarón is a movie visionary of the highest order, you truly can't beat the view.
Richard Corliss of Time[68]
Gravity was met with nearly universal acclaim from critics who praised the acting (especially Sandra Bullock's performance), direction, screenplay, cinematography, visual effects, production design, the use of 3D, and Steven Price's musical score.[69] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 97% based on reviews from 305 critics, with a "Certified Fresh" rating and an average score of 9.0/10. The site's consensus states: "Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is an eerie, tense sci-fi thriller that's masterfully directed and visually stunning."[70] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 96 based on 49 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim", making it the second highest scoring widely-released film of its year.[71] In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Gravity an average grade of A- on an A+ to F scale.[60]
Matt Zoller Seitz, writing on RogerEbert.com, gave the film four out of four stars, calling it "a huge and technically dazzling film and that the film's panoramas of astronauts tumbling against starfields and floating through space station interiors are at once informative and lovely".[72] Justin Chang writing for Variety said that the film "restores a sense of wonder, terror and possibility to the big screen that should inspire awe among critics and audiences worldwide".[73] Richard Corliss of Time praised Cuarón for playing "daringly and dexterously with point-of-view: at one moment you're inside Ryan's helmet as she surveys the bleak silence, then in a subtle shift you're outside to gauge her reaction. The 3-D effects, added in post-production, provide their own extraterrestrial startle: a hailstorm of debris hurtles at you, as do a space traveler's thoughts at the realization of being truly alone in the universe."[68]
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film five out of five stars, writing " a brilliant and inspired movie-cyclorama...a glorious imaginary creation that engulfs you utterly."[74] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph also awarded the film five out of five stars.[75]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film four out of four stars, stating that the film was "more than a movie. It's some kind of miracle."[76] A. O. Scott writing for The New York Times highlighted the use of 3-D which he said, "surpasses even what James Cameron accomplished in the flight sequences of Avatar". Scott also said that the film "in a little more than 90 minutes rewrites the rules of cinema as we have known them".[77] Quentin Tarantino said it was one of his top ten movies of 2013.[78] Empire, Time, and Total Film ranked the film as the best of 2013.[79][80][81]
Some critics have compared Gravity with other notable films set in space. Lindsey Weber of Vulture.com said the choice of Ed Harris for the voice of Mission Control is a reference to Apollo 13.[82] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter suggests the way "a weightless Stone goes floating about in nothing but her underwear" references Alien (1979).[36] Other critics made connections with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).[83] James Cameron praised the film and stated, "I think it's the best space photography ever done, I think it's the best space film ever done, and it's the movie I've been hungry to see for an awful long time".[84] Empire Online, Ask Men, and The Huffington Post also considered Gravity to be one of the best space films ever made,[85][86][87] though The Huffington Post later included Gravity on their list of "8 Movies From The Last 15 Years That Are Super Overrated".[88]
Top ten lists[edit]
Gravity was named one of the best films of 2013 by numerous critics and publications by appearing on 93 critics' top ten lists wherein 22 chose the film in first place, and was ranked second on Metacritic's Film Critic Top Ten List scorecard for 2013.[89]
##1st – Richard Corliss, Time
##1st – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
##1st – Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith, New York Post
##1st – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
##1st – Joel Neumaier, New York Daily News
##1st – Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter
##1st – Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain Dealer
##1st – Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
##1st – Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
##1st – Anne Thompson, Thompson on Hollywood
##1st – Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
##1st – Gregory Ellwood, Guy Lodge and Kristopher Tapley, HitFix
##1st – Norman Wilner, NOW Magazine Toronto
##1st – Mara Reinstein, US Weekly
##1st – Bob Mondello, NPR
##1st – Empire
##1st – Total Film
##1st – MTV
##1st – Den of Geek
##2nd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
##2nd – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
##2nd – Justin Chang, Variety
##2nd – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
##2nd – Steve Davis, Austin Chronicle
##2nd – Christopher Rosen and Mike Ryan, Huffington Post
##2nd – Mike Scott, New Orleans Times-Picayune
##2nd – The Daily Beast
##2nd – Genevieve Koski, The Dissolve
##2nd – David Sexton, London Evening Standard
##2nd – Sheila Benson and Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View
##2nd – Robbie Collin, The Telegraph UK
##2nd – TV Guide
##2nd – Yahoo! Movies
##3rd – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
##3rd – The Guardian
##3rd – David Chen, Slashfilm
##3rd – Robert Horton and Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly
##3rd – Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine Toronto
##3rd – Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
##3rd – Tom Brook, BBC
Piracy[edit]
According to piracy tracking site Excipio, Gravity was one of the most pirated films of 2014 with over 29.3 million illegal downloads via torrent sites.[90]
Accolades[edit]


Main article: List of accolades received by Gravity (film)
Gravity received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards; together with American Hustle it received the greatest number of nominations for the 2014 ceremony, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Bullock, and Best Production Design.[91] The film won the most of the night with seven Academy Awards: for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.[92][93][94] The film is second only to Cabaret (1972) to receive the most Academy Awards in its year without achieving the award for Best Picture.
Alfonso Cuarón won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress – Drama for Bullock and Best Original Score.[95][96]
Gravity received eleven nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, more than any other film of 2013. Its nominations included Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress in a Leading Role. Cuarón was the most-nominated person at the awards; he was nominated for five awards, including his nominations as producer for Best Film awards and editor.[97][98] Despite not winning Best Film, Gravity won six awards, the greatest number of awards in 2013. It won the awards for Outstanding British Film, Best Direction, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.[99][100]
Gravity also won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.[101]
Budget comparison to real life space explorations[edit]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while praising the cost-effective nature of Indian space programme, observed that the country's Mars Orbiter Mission had cost less than the film's production budget.[102]
Home media[edit]
Gravity was released on digital download on February 11, 2014, and was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on February 25, 2014, in the United States and on March 3, 2014, in the United Kingdom.[103] As of March 16, 2014, Gravity has sold 908,756 DVDs along with 957,355 Blu-ray discs for $16,465,600 and $22,183,843 respectively for a total of $38,649,443.[104] Gravity was also offered for free in HD on Google Play and Nexus devices in late October 2014 to early November 2014.
A "special edition" Blu-ray is scheduled to be released March 31, 2015. The release includes a "Silent Space Version" of the film which omits the score composed by Steven Price.[105]
Scientific accuracy[edit]



 A diagram showing the orbits of the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope
Cuarón has stated that Gravity is not always scientifically accurate and that some liberties were needed to sustain the story.[106] "This is not a documentary," Cuarón said. "It is a piece of fiction."[107] The film has been praised for the realism of its premises and its overall adherence to physical principles, despite several inaccuracies and exaggerations.[108][109][110] According to NASA Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, who took part in the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions STS-109 and STS-125, "nothing was out of place, nothing was missing. There was a one-of-a-kind wirecutter we used on one of my spacewalks and sure enough they had that wirecutter in the movie."[111]
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin called the visual effects "remarkable", and said, "I was so extravagantly impressed by the portrayal of the reality of zero gravity. Going through the space station was done just the way that I've seen people do it in reality. The spinning is going to happen—maybe not quite that vigorous—but certainly we've been fortunate that people haven't been in those situations yet. I think it reminds us that there really are hazards in the space business, especially in activities outside the spacecraft."[112] Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman said, "The pace and story was definitely engaging and I think it was the best use of the 3-D IMAX medium to date. Rather than using the medium as a gimmick, Gravity uses it to depict a real environment that is completely alien to most people. But the question that most people want me to answer is, how realistic was it? The very fact that the question is being asked so earnestly is a testament to the verisimilitude of the movie. When a bad science fiction movie comes out, no one bothers to ask me if it reminded me of the real thing."[113]
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronomer and skeptic Phil Plait, and veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker Scott E. Parazynski have offered comments about some of the most "glaring" inaccuracies.[110][114][115] 'The Dissolve' characterized these complaints as "absurd", problems "only an astrophysicist would find".[116]
Examples of differences from reality include:
##Several observers (including Plait and Tyson) said that in the scene in which Kowalski unclips his tether and floats away to his death to save Stone from being pulled away from the ISS, Stone would simply need to tug the tether gently to pull Kowalski toward her. According to the film's science adviser Kevin Grazier and NASA engineer Robert Frost, however, the pair are still decelerating with Stone's leg caught in the parachute cords from the Soyuz. The cords stretch as they absorb her kinetic energy. Kowalski thinks that the cords are not strong enough to absorb his kinetic energy as well as hers, and that he must release the tether to give Stone a chance of stopping before the cords fail and doom both of them.[117]
##Stone is shown not wearing liquid-cooled ventilation garments or even socks, which are always worn under the EVA suit to protect against extreme temperatures in space. Neither was she shown wearing space diapers.[110] No helmet is able to display images on the visor itself, as was featured in the film. Visors in space reflect sunlight, and thus would be opaque, in contrast to their transparency of the helmets in the film.[118]
##Stone's tears first roll down her face in micro-gravity, and are later seen floating off her face. Without sufficient force to dislodge the tears, they would remain on her face because of surface tension.[119] However, the movie correctly portrays the spherical nature of drops of liquid in a micro-gravity environment.[109]
##The Hubble Space Telescope, which is being repaired at the beginning of the movie, previously had an altitude of about 559 kilometres (347 mi) and an orbital inclination of 28.5 degrees. As of the release of the movie, the ISS had an altitude of around 420 kilometres (260 mi) and an orbital inclination of 51.65 degrees. The significant differences between orbital parameters would have made it impossible to travel between the two spacecraft without precise preparation, planning, calculation, the appropriate technology, and a large quantity of fuel at the time.[109][110][115]
Despite the inaccuracies in Gravity, Tyson, Plait and Parazynski said they enjoyed watching the film.[110][114][115] Aldrin said he hoped that the film would stimulate the public to find an interest in space again, after decades of diminishing investments into advancements in the field.[112]
Lawsuit[edit]
Author Tess Gerritsen sued Warner Bros in 2014 alleging breach of contract. She had sold the film rights to her book Gravity in 1999, a project that was closed down years later. In January 2015, a judge grounded Gerritsen's lawsuit, calling the allegations "entirely speculative".[120]
See also[edit]
##Apollo 13, a 1995 film dramatizing the Apollo 13 incident
##Kessler syndrome
##List of films featuring space stations
##Survival film
##Space exploration technologies
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Gravity
Poster
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Alfonso Cuarón
Produced by
Alfonso Cuarón
David Heyman
Screenplay by
Alfonso Cuarón
Jonás Cuarón
Starring
Sandra Bullock
George Clooney
Music by
Steven Price
Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Edited by
Alfonso Cuarón
Mark Sanger

Production
 company

Esperanto Filmoj
Heyday Films

Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures

Release dates

August 28, 2013 (Venice)
October 4, 2013 (United States)
November 8, 2013 (United Kingdom)


Running time
 91 minutes[1]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
 United States[2]
Language
English
Budget
$100 million[3]
Box office
$716.4 million[3]
Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Alfonso Cuarón. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts, and sees them stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle and their subsequent attempt to return to Earth.
Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the film at Universal Pictures. The rights were sold to Warner Bros. Pictures, where the project eventually found traction. David Heyman, who previously worked with Cuarón on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), produced the film with him. Gravity was produced entirely in the UK, where the British visual effects company Framestore spent more than three years creating most of the film's visual effects, which comprise over 80 of its 91 minutes.
Gravity opened the 70th Venice International Film Festival on 28 August 2013 and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. It was released to cinemas in the United States and Canada on 4 October 2013. The film was met with near-universal critical acclaim and was regarded as one of the best films of 2013. Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography, Steven Price's musical score, Cuarón's direction, Bullock's performance and Framestore's visual effects were all particularly praised by numerous critics. The film became the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2013 with a worldwide gross of over US$716 million.
At the 86th Academy Awards, Gravity received a leading ten nominations—tying with American Hustle—and won seven, the most for the ceremony, including Best Director for Cuarón, Best Cinematography for Lubezki, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Score for Price. The film was also awarded six BAFTA Awards, including Outstanding British Film and Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and seven Critics Choice Awards.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
4 Themes
5 Music
6 Release 6.1 Box office
6.2 Critical response 6.2.1 Top ten lists
6.3 Piracy
6.4 Accolades
6.5 Budget comparison to real life space explorations
6.6 Home media
7 Scientific accuracy
8 Lawsuit
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Plot[edit]
Dr. Ryan Stone is a biomedical engineer aboard the NASA space shuttle Explorer for her first space mission, STS-157. Veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski is commanding his final mission. During a spacewalk to service the Hubble Space Telescope and Stone's upgrades to the Telescope, Mission Control in Houston warns the team about a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite, which has inadvertently caused a chain reaction forming a cloud of debris in space. Mission Control orders that the mission be aborted and the shuttle begin re-entry immediately because the debris is speeding towards the telescope. Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly thereafter.
High speed debris from the Russian satellite strikes the Explorer and Hubble, detaching Stone from the shuttle and leaving her tumbling through space. Kowalski, using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU), recovers Stone and they return to the Explorer. They discover that it has suffered catastrophic damage and the rest of the crew is dead. They use the MMU to reach the International Space Station (ISS), which is in orbit about 1,450 km (900 mi) away. Kowalski estimates they have 90 minutes before the debris field completes an orbit and threatens them again.
En route to the ISS, the two discuss Stone's home life and the death of her young daughter. As they approach the substantially damaged but still operational ISS, they see its crew has evacuated in one of its two Soyuz modules. The parachute of the remaining Soyuz has deployed, rendering the capsule useless for returning to Earth. Kowalski suggests using it to travel to the nearby Chinese space station Tiangong, 100 km (60 mi) away, in order to board a Chinese module to return safely to Earth. Out of air and maneuvering power, the two try to grab onto the ISS as they fly by. Stone's leg gets entangled in Soyuz's parachute cords and she grabs a strap on Kowalski's suit. Despite Stone's protests, Kowalski detaches himself from the tether to save her from drifting away with him, and she is pulled back towards the ISS while Kowalski floats away to certain death. He continues to support her until he is out of communications reach.
Stone enters the ISS via an airlock. She cannot re-establish communication with Kowalski and concludes that she is the sole survivor. A fire breaks out, forcing her to rush to the Soyuz. As she maneuvers the capsule away from the ISS, the tangled parachute tethers prevent it from separating from the station. She spacewalks to release the cables, succeeding just as the debris field completes its orbit and destroys the station. Stone aligns the Soyuz with Tiangong but discovers that its engine has no fuel.
After a poignant attempt at radio communication with an Eskimo–Aleut-speaking fisherman on Earth, Stone resigns herself to being stranded and shuts down the cabin's oxygen supply to commit suicide. As she begins to lose consciousness, Kowalski enters the capsule. Scolding her for giving up, he tells her to rig the Soyuz's landing rockets to propel the capsule toward Tiangong. Stone then realizes that Kowalski's reappearance was not real, but has nonetheless given her the strength of will to continue. She restores the flow of oxygen and uses the landing rockets to navigate toward Tiangong, which is rapidly deorbiting.
Unable to maneuver the Soyuz to dock with the station, Stone ejects herself via explosive decompression and uses a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel the final meters to Tiangong. Stone enters the Shenzhou capsule just as Tiangong starts to break up on the upper edge of the atmosphere. Stone radios that she is ready to head back to Earth. After re-entering the atmosphere, Stone hears Mission Control, which is tracking the capsule. But due to a harsh reentry and the premature separation of the heat shield a fire is starting inside the capsule.
After speeding through the atmosphere, the capsule lands in a lake, but dense smoke forces Stone to evacuate immediately after the splashdown. She opens the capsule hatch, allowing water to enter and sink it, forcing Stone to shed her spacesuit and swim ashore. She watches the remains of the Tiangong re-enter the atmosphere and takes her first shaky steps on land.
Cast[edit]



Sandra Bullock

George Clooney

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star as Dr. Ryan Stone and Lieutenant Matt Kowalski respectively.
##Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone,[4] a medical engineer and mission specialist who is on her first space mission.[5]
##George Clooney as Lieutenant Matt Kowalski,[4] the commander of the team. Kowalski is a veteran astronaut planning to retire after the Explorer expedition. He enjoys telling stories about himself and joking with his team, and is determined to protect the lives of his fellow astronauts.[6]
##Ed Harris (voice) as Mission Control in Houston, Texas.[4][7]
##Orto Ignatiussen (voice) as Aningaaq,[4] a Greenlandic Inuit fisherman who intercepts one of Stone's transmissions. Aningaaq also appears in a self-titled short written and directed by Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón, which depicts the conversation between him and Stone from his perspective.[8][9]
##Phaldut Sharma (voice) as Shariff Dasari,[4] the flight engineer on board the Explorer.[10]
##Amy Warren (voice) as the captain of Explorer.[4]
##Basher Savage (voice) as the captain of the International Space Station.[4]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Alfonso Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás. Cuarón told Wired magazine, "I watched the Gregory Peck movie Marooned (1969) over and over as a kid."[11] That film is about the first crew of an experimental space station returning to Earth in an Apollo capsule that suffers a thruster malfunction. Cuarón attempted to develop his project at Universal Pictures, where it stayed in development for several years. After the rights to the project were sold, the project began development at Warner Bros., who acquired the project. In 2010, Angelina Jolie, who had rejected a sequel to Wanted (2008), was in contact with Warner Bros. to star in the film.[5][12] Scheduling conflicts involving Jolie's Bosnian war film In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), and a possible Salt (2009) sequel led Jolie to exit her involvement with Gravity, leaving Warner Bros. with doubts that the film would get made.[5]
In March, Robert Downey, Jr. entered discussions to be cast in the male lead role.[13] In mid-2010, Marion Cotillard attended a screen test for the female lead role. By August 2010, Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively were potential candidates for the role.[14] In September, Cuarón received approval from Warner Bros. to offer the role without a screen test to Natalie Portman, who was praised for her performance in Black Swan (2010) at that time.[15] Portman rejected the project because of scheduling conflicts and Warner Bros. then approached Sandra Bullock for the role.[5] In November 2010, Downey left the project to star in How to Talk to Girls—a project in development with Shawn Levy attached to direct.[16] The following December, with Bullock signed for the co-lead role, George Clooney replaced Downey.[6]
The problem of shooting long scenes in a zero-g environment was a challenge. Eventually, the team decided to use computer-generated imagery for the spacewalk scenes and automotive robots to move Bullock's character for interior space station scenes.[17] This meant that shots and blocking had to be planned well in advance for the robots to be programmed.[17] It also made the production period much longer than expected. When the script was finalized, Cuarón assumed it would take about a year to complete the film, but it took four and a half years.[18]
Filming[edit]



 The landing scene was filmed at Lake Powell, Arizona.
Made on a production budget of $100 million, Gravity was filmed digitally on multiple Arri Alexa cameras. Principal photography began in late May 2011.[19] CG elements were shot at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom.[20] The landing scene was filmed at Lake Powell, Arizona—where the astronauts' landing scene in Planet of the Apes (1968) was also filmed.[21] Visual effects were supervised by Tim Webber at the London-based VFX company Framestore, which was responsible for creating most of the film's visual effects—except for 17 shots. Framestore was also heavily involved in the art direction and, along with The Third Floor, the previsualization. Tim Webber stated that 80 percent of the movie consisted of CG—compared to James Cameron's Avatar (2009), which was 60 percent CG.[22] To simulate the authenticity and reflection of unfiltered light in space, a manually controlled lighting system consisting of 1.8 million individually controlled LED lights was built.[23] The 3D imagery was designed and supervised by Chris Parks. The majority of the 3D was created by stereo rendering the CG at Framestore. The remaining footage was converted into 3D in post production—principally at Prime Focus, London, with additional conversion work by Framestore. Prime Focus's supervisor was Richard Baker.
Filming began in London in May 2011.[24] The film contains 156 shots with an average length of 45 seconds—fewer and longer shots than in most films of this length.[25] Although the first trailer had audible explosions and other sounds, these scenes are silent in the finished film. Cuarón said, "They put in explosions [in the trailer]. As we know, there is no sound in space. In the film, we don't do that."[26] The soundtrack in the film's space scenes consists of the musical score and sounds astronauts would hear in their suits or in the space vehicles.[27]
For most of Bullock's shots, she was placed inside a giant, mechanical rig.[17] Getting into the rig took a significant amount of time, so Bullock chose to stay in it for up to 10 hours a day, communicating with others through a headset.[17] Cuarón said his biggest challenge was to make the set feel as inviting and non-claustrophobic as possible. The team attempted to do this by having a celebration each day when Bullock arrived. They nicknamed the rig "Sandy's cage" and gave it a lighted sign.[17] Most of the movie was shot digitally using Arri Alexa Classics cameras equipped with wide Arri Master Prime lenses. The final scene, which takes place on Earth, was shot on an Arri 765 camera using 65mm film to provide the sequence with a visual contrast to the rest of the film.[28]
Themes[edit]
Although Gravity is often cited in the media as a science fiction film,[29] Cuarón told BBC that he sees the film rather as "a drama of a woman in space".[30]
Despite being set in space, the film uses motifs from shipwreck and wilderness survival stories about psychological change and resilience in the aftermath of catastrophe.[31][32][33][34] Cuarón uses the character, Stone, to illustrate clarity of mind, persistence, training, and improvisation in the face of isolation and the consequences of a relentless Murphy's law.[29] The film incorporates spiritual or existential themes, in the facts of Stone's daughter's accidental and meaningless death, and in the necessity of summoning the will to survive in the face of overwhelming odds, without future certainties, and with the impossibility of rescue from personal dissolution without finding this willpower.[32] Calamities occur but only the surviving astronauts see them.[35]
The impact of scenes is heightened by alternating between objective and subjective perspectives, the warm face of the Earth and the depths of dark space, the chaos and predictability of the debris field, and silence of the vacuum of space with the background score giving the desired effect.[34][36] The film uses very long, uninterrupted shots throughout to draw the audience into the action but contrasts these with claustrophobic shots within space suits and capsules.[32][37]
Some commentators have noted religious themes in the film.[38][39][40][41] For instance, Fr. Robert Barron in The Catholic Register summarizes the tension between Gravity's technology and religious symbolism. He said, "The technology which this film legitimately celebrates... can't save us, and it can't provide the means by which we establish real contact with each other. The Ganges in the sun, the St. Christopher icon, the statue of Budai, and above all, a visit from a denizen of heaven, signal that there is a dimension of reality that lies beyond what technology can master or access ... the reality of God".[41]
The film also suggests themes of humanity's ubiquitous strategy of existential resilience; that, across cultures, individuals must postulate meaning, beyond material existence, wherever none can be perceived. Human evolution and the resilience of life may also be seen as key themes of Gravity.[42][43][44][45] The film opens with the exploration of space—the climax of human civilization, and ends with an allegory of the dawn of mankind when Dr. Ryan Stone fights her way out of the water after the crash-landing, passing an amphibian, grabs the soil and slowly regains her capacity to stand upright and walk. Director Cuarón said, "She’s in these murky waters almost like an amniotic fluid or a primordial soup. In which you see amphibians swimming. She crawls out of the water, not unlike early creatures in evolution. And then she goes on all fours. And after going on all fours she’s a bit curved until she is completely erect. It was the evolution of life in one, quick shot".[43] Other imagery depicting the formation of life includes a scene in which Stone rests in an embryonic position, surrounded by a rope strongly resembling an umbilical cord. Stone's return from space, accompanied by meteorite-like debris, may be seen as a hint that elements essential to the development of life on Earth may have come from outer space in the form of meteorites.[46]
Music[edit]
Main article: Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Steven Price composed the incidental music for Gravity. In early September 2013, a 23-minute preview of the soundtrack was released online.[47] A soundtrack album was released digitally on September 17, 2013, and in physical formats on October 1, 2013, by WaterTower Music.[48] Songs featured in the film include:[49]
##"Angels Are Hard to Find" by Hank Williams, Jr.
##"Sinigit Meerannguaq" by Juaaka Lyberth
##"Destination Anywhere" by Chris Benstead and Robin Baynton
##"922 Anthem" by 922 (featuring Gaurav Dayal)
##"Ready" by Charles Scott (featuring Chelsea Williams)
In most of the film's official trailers, Spiegel im Spiegel, written by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978, was used.[50]
Release[edit]



 David Heyman, Sandra Bullock, and Alfonso Cuarón at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting Gravity
Gravity had its world premiere at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013, and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival.[51] It was released in the USA in 3D and IMAX 3D on October 4, 2013 and in the UK on November 8, 2013.[52][53] The film's US release coincided with the beginning of World Space Week, which was observed from October 4 to 10. The film was originally scheduled to be released in the US on November 21, 2012, before being re-scheduled for a 2013 release to allow the completion of extensive post-production work.[54]


Box office[edit]
Preliminary reports predicted the film would open with takings of over $10 million in North America.[55][56] The film earned $1.4 million from its Thursday night showings,[57] and reached $17.5 million on Friday.[58] Gravity topped the box office and broke the record held by Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) as the highest-earning October and autumn openings, grossing $55.8 million.[59] 80 percent of the film's opening weekend gross came from its 3D showings, which grossed $44 million. $11.2 million—20 percent of the receipts—came from IMAX 3D showings; the highest percentage for a film opening more than $50 million.[60]
The film stayed at number one at the box office during its second and third weekends.[61][62] Gravity opened at number one in the United Kingdom, taking GB£6.23 million over the first weekend of release,[63] and remained there for the second week.[64] The film's largest markets outside North America were China ($71.2m),[65] the United Kingdom ($47.0m) and France ($38.2m).[66] On February 17, 2014, the film grossed $700m worldwide.[67] Gravity grossed $274,092,705 in North America and $442,300,000 in other countries, making a worldwide gross of $716,392,705—making it the eighth-highest grossing film of 2013.[3]
Critical response[edit]



Cuarón shows things that cannot be but, miraculously, are, in the fearful, beautiful reality of the space world above our world. If the film past is dead, Gravity shows us the glory of cinema's future. It thrills on so many levels. And because Cuarón is a movie visionary of the highest order, you truly can't beat the view.
Richard Corliss of Time[68]
Gravity was met with nearly universal acclaim from critics who praised the acting (especially Sandra Bullock's performance), direction, screenplay, cinematography, visual effects, production design, the use of 3D, and Steven Price's musical score.[69] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 97% based on reviews from 305 critics, with a "Certified Fresh" rating and an average score of 9.0/10. The site's consensus states: "Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is an eerie, tense sci-fi thriller that's masterfully directed and visually stunning."[70] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 96 based on 49 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim", making it the second highest scoring widely-released film of its year.[71] In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Gravity an average grade of A- on an A+ to F scale.[60]
Matt Zoller Seitz, writing on RogerEbert.com, gave the film four out of four stars, calling it "a huge and technically dazzling film and that the film's panoramas of astronauts tumbling against starfields and floating through space station interiors are at once informative and lovely".[72] Justin Chang writing for Variety said that the film "restores a sense of wonder, terror and possibility to the big screen that should inspire awe among critics and audiences worldwide".[73] Richard Corliss of Time praised Cuarón for playing "daringly and dexterously with point-of-view: at one moment you're inside Ryan's helmet as she surveys the bleak silence, then in a subtle shift you're outside to gauge her reaction. The 3-D effects, added in post-production, provide their own extraterrestrial startle: a hailstorm of debris hurtles at you, as do a space traveler's thoughts at the realization of being truly alone in the universe."[68]
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film five out of five stars, writing " a brilliant and inspired movie-cyclorama...a glorious imaginary creation that engulfs you utterly."[74] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph also awarded the film five out of five stars.[75]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film four out of four stars, stating that the film was "more than a movie. It's some kind of miracle."[76] A. O. Scott writing for The New York Times highlighted the use of 3-D which he said, "surpasses even what James Cameron accomplished in the flight sequences of Avatar". Scott also said that the film "in a little more than 90 minutes rewrites the rules of cinema as we have known them".[77] Quentin Tarantino said it was one of his top ten movies of 2013.[78] Empire, Time, and Total Film ranked the film as the best of 2013.[79][80][81]
Some critics have compared Gravity with other notable films set in space. Lindsey Weber of Vulture.com said the choice of Ed Harris for the voice of Mission Control is a reference to Apollo 13.[82] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter suggests the way "a weightless Stone goes floating about in nothing but her underwear" references Alien (1979).[36] Other critics made connections with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).[83] James Cameron praised the film and stated, "I think it's the best space photography ever done, I think it's the best space film ever done, and it's the movie I've been hungry to see for an awful long time".[84] Empire Online, Ask Men, and The Huffington Post also considered Gravity to be one of the best space films ever made,[85][86][87] though The Huffington Post later included Gravity on their list of "8 Movies From The Last 15 Years That Are Super Overrated".[88]
Top ten lists[edit]
Gravity was named one of the best films of 2013 by numerous critics and publications by appearing on 93 critics' top ten lists wherein 22 chose the film in first place, and was ranked second on Metacritic's Film Critic Top Ten List scorecard for 2013.[89]
##1st – Richard Corliss, Time
##1st – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
##1st – Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith, New York Post
##1st – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
##1st – Joel Neumaier, New York Daily News
##1st – Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter
##1st – Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain Dealer
##1st – Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
##1st – Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
##1st – Anne Thompson, Thompson on Hollywood
##1st – Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
##1st – Gregory Ellwood, Guy Lodge and Kristopher Tapley, HitFix
##1st – Norman Wilner, NOW Magazine Toronto
##1st – Mara Reinstein, US Weekly
##1st – Bob Mondello, NPR
##1st – Empire
##1st – Total Film
##1st – MTV
##1st – Den of Geek
##2nd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
##2nd – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
##2nd – Justin Chang, Variety
##2nd – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
##2nd – Steve Davis, Austin Chronicle
##2nd – Christopher Rosen and Mike Ryan, Huffington Post
##2nd – Mike Scott, New Orleans Times-Picayune
##2nd – The Daily Beast
##2nd – Genevieve Koski, The Dissolve
##2nd – David Sexton, London Evening Standard
##2nd – Sheila Benson and Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View
##2nd – Robbie Collin, The Telegraph UK
##2nd – TV Guide
##2nd – Yahoo! Movies
##3rd – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
##3rd – The Guardian
##3rd – David Chen, Slashfilm
##3rd – Robert Horton and Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly
##3rd – Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine Toronto
##3rd – Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
##3rd – Tom Brook, BBC
Piracy[edit]
According to piracy tracking site Excipio, Gravity was one of the most pirated films of 2014 with over 29.3 million illegal downloads via torrent sites.[90]
Accolades[edit]


Main article: List of accolades received by Gravity (film)
Gravity received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards; together with American Hustle it received the greatest number of nominations for the 2014 ceremony, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Bullock, and Best Production Design.[91] The film won the most of the night with seven Academy Awards: for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.[92][93][94] The film is second only to Cabaret (1972) to receive the most Academy Awards in its year without achieving the award for Best Picture.
Alfonso Cuarón won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress – Drama for Bullock and Best Original Score.[95][96]
Gravity received eleven nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, more than any other film of 2013. Its nominations included Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress in a Leading Role. Cuarón was the most-nominated person at the awards; he was nominated for five awards, including his nominations as producer for Best Film awards and editor.[97][98] Despite not winning Best Film, Gravity won six awards, the greatest number of awards in 2013. It won the awards for Outstanding British Film, Best Direction, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.[99][100]
Gravity also won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.[101]
Budget comparison to real life space explorations[edit]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while praising the cost-effective nature of Indian space programme, observed that the country's Mars Orbiter Mission had cost less than the film's production budget.[102]
Home media[edit]
Gravity was released on digital download on February 11, 2014, and was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on February 25, 2014, in the United States and on March 3, 2014, in the United Kingdom.[103] As of March 16, 2014, Gravity has sold 908,756 DVDs along with 957,355 Blu-ray discs for $16,465,600 and $22,183,843 respectively for a total of $38,649,443.[104] Gravity was also offered for free in HD on Google Play and Nexus devices in late October 2014 to early November 2014.
A "special edition" Blu-ray is scheduled to be released March 31, 2015. The release includes a "Silent Space Version" of the film which omits the score composed by Steven Price.[105]
Scientific accuracy[edit]



 A diagram showing the orbits of the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope
Cuarón has stated that Gravity is not always scientifically accurate and that some liberties were needed to sustain the story.[106] "This is not a documentary," Cuarón said. "It is a piece of fiction."[107] The film has been praised for the realism of its premises and its overall adherence to physical principles, despite several inaccuracies and exaggerations.[108][109][110] According to NASA Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, who took part in the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions STS-109 and STS-125, "nothing was out of place, nothing was missing. There was a one-of-a-kind wirecutter we used on one of my spacewalks and sure enough they had that wirecutter in the movie."[111]
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin called the visual effects "remarkable", and said, "I was so extravagantly impressed by the portrayal of the reality of zero gravity. Going through the space station was done just the way that I've seen people do it in reality. The spinning is going to happen—maybe not quite that vigorous—but certainly we've been fortunate that people haven't been in those situations yet. I think it reminds us that there really are hazards in the space business, especially in activities outside the spacecraft."[112] Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman said, "The pace and story was definitely engaging and I think it was the best use of the 3-D IMAX medium to date. Rather than using the medium as a gimmick, Gravity uses it to depict a real environment that is completely alien to most people. But the question that most people want me to answer is, how realistic was it? The very fact that the question is being asked so earnestly is a testament to the verisimilitude of the movie. When a bad science fiction movie comes out, no one bothers to ask me if it reminded me of the real thing."[113]
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronomer and skeptic Phil Plait, and veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker Scott E. Parazynski have offered comments about some of the most "glaring" inaccuracies.[110][114][115] 'The Dissolve' characterized these complaints as "absurd", problems "only an astrophysicist would find".[116]
Examples of differences from reality include:
##Several observers (including Plait and Tyson) said that in the scene in which Kowalski unclips his tether and floats away to his death to save Stone from being pulled away from the ISS, Stone would simply need to tug the tether gently to pull Kowalski toward her. According to the film's science adviser Kevin Grazier and NASA engineer Robert Frost, however, the pair are still decelerating with Stone's leg caught in the parachute cords from the Soyuz. The cords stretch as they absorb her kinetic energy. Kowalski thinks that the cords are not strong enough to absorb his kinetic energy as well as hers, and that he must release the tether to give Stone a chance of stopping before the cords fail and doom both of them.[117]
##Stone is shown not wearing liquid-cooled ventilation garments or even socks, which are always worn under the EVA suit to protect against extreme temperatures in space. Neither was she shown wearing space diapers.[110] No helmet is able to display images on the visor itself, as was featured in the film. Visors in space reflect sunlight, and thus would be opaque, in contrast to their transparency of the helmets in the film.[118]
##Stone's tears first roll down her face in micro-gravity, and are later seen floating off her face. Without sufficient force to dislodge the tears, they would remain on her face because of surface tension.[119] However, the movie correctly portrays the spherical nature of drops of liquid in a micro-gravity environment.[109]
##The Hubble Space Telescope, which is being repaired at the beginning of the movie, previously had an altitude of about 559 kilometres (347 mi) and an orbital inclination of 28.5 degrees. As of the release of the movie, the ISS had an altitude of around 420 kilometres (260 mi) and an orbital inclination of 51.65 degrees. The significant differences between orbital parameters would have made it impossible to travel between the two spacecraft without precise preparation, planning, calculation, the appropriate technology, and a large quantity of fuel at the time.[109][110][115]
Despite the inaccuracies in Gravity, Tyson, Plait and Parazynski said they enjoyed watching the film.[110][114][115] Aldrin said he hoped that the film would stimulate the public to find an interest in space again, after decades of diminishing investments into advancements in the field.[112]
Lawsuit[edit]
Author Tess Gerritsen sued Warner Bros in 2014 alleging breach of contract. She had sold the film rights to her book Gravity in 1999, a project that was closed down years later. In January 2015, a judge grounded Gerritsen's lawsuit, calling the allegations "entirely speculative".[120]
See also[edit]
##Apollo 13, a 1995 film dramatizing the Apollo 13 incident
##Kessler syndrome
##List of films featuring space stations
##Survival film
##Space exploration technologies
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