
Event Details
The memoir of Danish author Karen Blixen (published under her pen name Isak Dinesen) was adapted by director Sydney Pollack and screenwriter Kurt Leudtke for this lavish romantic drama, focusing on the years Blixen (Best Actress nominee Meryl Streep) spent running a coffee farm in Nairobi and her relationship with hunter Denys Finch-Hatton (Robert Redford). Out of Africa was nominated for 11 Oscars and won seven including Best Picture, Directing (both for Pollack), Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography and Sound, with John Barry winning his fourth Oscar for an achingly romantic score.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1985 | 162 min. | USA | Color | English | Rated PG | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Sydney Pollack
WRITTEN BY: Kurt Leudtke
WITH: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.