JFK
(1991)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia)Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Director (Oliver Stone)
Academy Award for Best Original Score (John Williams)
Academy Award for Best Picture (A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone)
Academy Award for Best Sound
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Oliver Stone)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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JFK is a 1991 American historical conspiracy legal thriller film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and subsequent cover-up through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate the President, for which Lee Harvey Oswald was found responsible by two government investigations: the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The film was adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. Stone described this account as a "counter-myth" to the Warren Commission's "fictional myth." The film became embroiled in controversy. Upon JFK 's theatrical release, many major American newspapers ran editorials accusing Stone of taking liberties with historical facts, including the film's implication that President Lyndon B. Johnson was part of a coup d'état to kill Kennedy.