Fatal Attraction
(1987)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Director (Adrian Lyne)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Peter E. Berger)
Academy Award for Best Picture (Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing)
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Anne Archer)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (James Dearden)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer. The film centers on a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end, resulting in emotional blackmail, stalking, and an ensuing obsession on her part. The film was adapted by James Dearden and Nicholas Meyer from an earlier 1980 short film by Dearden for British television, Diversion. Fatal Attraction was a hit, finishing as the second highest-grossing film of 1987 in the United States and the highest-grossing film of the year worldwide. Critics were enthusiastic about the film, and it received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Close, and Best Supporting Actress for Archer. Both lost to Cher and Olympia Dukakis, respectively, for Moonstruck.