Quigley Down Under challenged the status quo of Western filmmaking in 1990, and it continues to inspire three decades later.
Thirty years ago, Dances with Wolves was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and was awarded 10 Oscars.
The film’s star, Kevin Costner, earned Oscars for direction and production, the first producer to accept a Best Picture Oscar for a Western film since Cimarron in 1931. Costner’s film, categorized as a revisionist versus traditional Western, was only one of
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