Dances With Wolves Wins Adapted Screenplay: 1991 Oscars

[@DoctorXander]

Anyone here from that Kevin Costner story on Graham Norton

[@cynthiabustamante2884]

DoctorXander I am !

[@hendrixmalik1439]

Lol yes

[@aredgirl1440]

DoctorXander Yes, I’ll never look at Michael Blake the same again. Had no idea he was a raccoon killer at one time, lol.

[@mikeronquillo1451]

DoctorXander present!

[@serhanakaln6959]

I am

[@mil8834]

You all need to hear kevin costner story about this script - he was in graham norton show

[@BD2784KOP]

Ha! Just watched it! That’s what drew me to find this video. Amazing story. 👍✌️❤️

[@ChrisWolff2013]

RIP Mr. Blake. You wrote a damn good book and movie.

[@captainjakemerica4579]

+Chris Wolff That he did

[@yutopi]

One of the greatest acceptance speeches I have ever seen. Michael Blake was the true fulcrum of Dances With Wolves, he delivered a magnificent screenplay filled with opulence, reality, and beauty. Godspeed Michael. Navid

[@janefromtennessee]

Agree

[@LPJack02]

RIP Michael Blake (July 5, 1945 - May 2, 2015), aged 69 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@janefromtennessee]

He was a great writer

[@starkingbiker]

RIP Michael Blake July 5, 1945 - May 2, 2015

[@JunebugPresents]

Nooooooooooooo! :(

[@andyrowlands50029]

Wonderful to hear Doris Leader Charge speaking in Lakota Sioux, she was instrumental in making Dances With Wolves the superb film it is. Sadly, she died in 2001.

[@hillena]

did she play the chiefs wife? in the movie?

[@andyrowlands50029]

Indeed she did :-)

[@hillena]

andyrowlands50029 I loved her story when she and Chief were in the tree because of a Buffalo :)

[@andyrowlands50029]

Yes that was funny, I think her name in the film was Pretty Shield.

[@mariahkelly1300]

andyrowlands50029 ow

[@Brospeedster]

And so it should - the movie Dances with Wolves sends a strong message to not only the American people but throughout the world as to the plights of the Native American people! Fantastic movie and fantastic script!

[@melanieblackelk4252]

Doris Leader Charge is from my tribe, The Rosebud Sioux Nation. We are both enrolled members💕......

[@alfonsomunoz4424]

Hearing her translate was outstanding!

[@charlesfuentes3695]

R.I.P. Doris Leadercharge & Michael Blake. Thank You for gifts to the world. Never forgotten...🙏

[@Komorebidreams]

Keeshond, 1991. Sir Anthony Hopkins still had hair, Jodie Foster was still in, but one thing remains the same...Dances with Wolves is still the Greatest.

[@rickram1961]

What a magnificent acceptance speech!

[@Bubbertan]

This is the exact moment Anthony Hopkins realized he needed glasses. All jokes aside, dances with wolves, both the book and the movie, are amazing. Michael Blake was a great writer.

[@patricew.4010]

SuspiciousEgroll 😂😂😂😂.

[@nicolesong6199]

Is it really?

[@aarango3552]

Hey! I'm learning Lakota Sioux and feel pretty confident of at least basic conversation and expressing basic necessities such as, 'I'm hungry,' 'Are you at home right now?' and 'How you doing?' I can understand Mrs. Leader Charge adequately fine at best; especially when she says wanáškaŋškaŋyaŋpi -- "movie" and šuŋgmánitu tȟáŋka ob wachi -- "Dances with wolf(ves)" What really helps is that she speaks with good volume and with both slow and clear enunciation, three key points in speaking ANY language in the world. What a wonderful spirit she was.

[@kardaya]

Santana Arango that’s awesome. Wish you the best

[@gizzad]

I want to learn it!

[@ompaloompa65]

RIP MICHAEL BLAKE!! But wtf, published yesterday, I was watching this like 2 months ago. But nonetheless Dances With Wolves was terrific and he deserved it.

[@rampageclover9788]

This the guy that Costner pinned against a wall?

[@kevinjonhason1106]

hahahah from the graham norton show, i think this is the guy, cant imagine him at a chinesse restaurant.

[@brianstoner2799]

HE probably didn't want to throw back...supposedly Kevin was letting him sleep in his house at the time...

[@rampageclover9788]

@@brianstoner2799 no that was after I think...he started to write Dances in Costners basement

[@janefromtennessee]

Yes

[@jacksonirving4594]

When wind in his hair shouts good bye at the end of the film , no matter how many times I've heard it , it makes me cry . He made freind out of a potential enemy..

[@mikekillagreen9432]

I remember Costner on Inside the Actors Studio telling Michael Blake's inspirational story and said Michael was dying.

[@EvilscooterKitty]

Doris Leader Charge - rest in light, you beautiful, dear lady. We miss you.

[@johndelossantos7678]

What a competitive year, all great movies

[@dianewigell578]

Hearing Doris Leader Charge made my heart sing. Aho!!!

[@MrMcGiblets1]

It's a shame that the academy award no longer has meaning.

[@Lundahlium]

Should have won them all

[@luisrobles0453]

It was great to hear the Souix language in person. Tai guey guaitao

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

How gorgeous is Jodie ♥️♥️

[@michaelj.r457]

RIP Michael Blake. I know we only have a short time before the Goodfellas vs. DWW debate starts again. But even if I did not agree that DWW deserved to win over Goodfellas (jury's still out on that) your story of how you went from living in your car to being a successful author/screenwriter is an inspiration to a would be writer like me. Also props to you from bringing Doris Leader Charge who played a big role in the film (translating the script, teaching the actors the Lakota language.)

[@mariahkelly1300]

Michael J.R you should be saying rip michael jackson

[@darthartagnan4737]

how is the jury still out? He won.. that's it lol.. so his movie WAS better.. the end.. there I helped solve your debate.

[@delasantos]

@@darthartagnan4737 Damn right! DWW won. Full stop.

[@VelhaGuardaTricolor]

1991 - The Goodfellas, Awakenings, Dance with Wolves and Reversal of Fortune. 2019 - Avengers, Transformers, Spider Man, Ant Man, Wolverine, X Men, etc... WTF happened to CINEMA?

[@avishkamariosenewiratne8031]

Let's be optimistic 2019- Irishman, Marriage Story, Once upon a time in Hollywood, Parasite, The two Popes

[@TheErockaustin]

💰💰💰💰💰💰 is what happened

[@delasantos]

@@avishkamariosenewiratne8031 Fair point!

[@BCE-111]

Just think of all Michael went through to write this magnificent book and screenplay. If you're wondering how much he was paid for his screenplay......................................... it was $6,500. Just think of how much money this movie generated. Worldwide box office is $424.2 million.

[@janefromtennessee]

Strange!

[@JCMELKOR]

Dat young Denzel 👀

[@Cotton088]

Lakota is a beautiful language

[@adagiobreeze8493]

That’s such a pretty language

[@Darkasknightfall]

I sure hope Michael Blake’s novel ‘The Holy Road’ makes it to the big screen but only if someone can do the film justice

[@rs7458]

What’s it about?

[@markelijio6012]

Good films by good screenwriters providing excellent storytelling. You'll get a whole lot more but don't settle for nothing less. Work with the best writers for both films and TV and then you have some very good ideas of your own!

[@Mr.Razon369]

Ok. how to into?????

[@vicsaul5459]

All that and Debra ❤ too, great clip

[@thomassteven6292]

hannibal and clarice presenting the award

[@Natedawg38]

I keep telling antho to stop drinking before he goes onstage

[@heroooo848]

Damn, Jodie looks miraculous...

[@HoldenNY22]

Several Years later, a filmaker stole his Idea for Dances with Wolves and made his own Movie with just some minor alterations in it from the Original Dances with Wolves. That Filmmaker made one of the biggest , if not the Biggest Blockbuster Movie of all time- basically plagerizing Dances with Wolves. That Filmmaker was James Cameron and the Movie was Called Avatar. Avatar is just basically a Science Fiction Version of Dances with Wolves.

[@Mr.Razon369]

😮

[@spacecatboy2962]

how in the fuck has this already been 40 years ago now

[@itkapatanka]

Interesting his words are being translated in female Lakota.

[@stefanmovieflixtomasi]

Surprised to see Hopkins and Foster together as Oscar hosts

[@dnasty312]

I believe _Lambs_ had just come out

[@stefanmovieflixtomasi]

@@dnasty312 it was current at the time

[@leehollywood196]

Real pride

[@oolala53]

This length of thank you, would probably never happen today. I wonder if at the end of his life he would say the same thing to young people if his stories had never been turned into films. If he had gone to his grave, still dreaming and wishing that life could be different than it was, is it possible to do both to have dreams, unfulfilled and yet feel like life is enough as it is, as the Zen Masters proclaim?

[@christopherallen9580]

Marlon Brando was proud

[@ezequiellima1665]

Jodie Foster😍😍

[@josefranciscosandinlavado9413]

…and to think ‘Silence of the Lambs’ wouldn’t come out until one year later…

[@distinguishedflyer]

It had already come out (on Valentine's Day, no less) - a rare instance of a Best Picture winner getting released before the previous ceremony.

[@orlandonastacio6265]

Debra Wringer best actress for Sissy in Urban Cowboy ❤❤❤

[@joewhitehead3]

This is kinda like when the writer/director of Paradise had an interpreter

[@markelijio6012]

Mary Agnes Donoghue who had an interpreter. She was an writer/director of many credits and has been an long time favorite for Disney since 1982 as well as an member of WGA, DGA and AMPAS since 1990.

[@Guvna07]

Graham Norton guided me here

[@BD2784KOP]

Me too!

[@pischrelli]

Same here

[@supermariofan03]

For me this list should have been: Dances With Wolves Goodfellas Awakenings The Grifters Postcards from the Edge The Godfather III was really good but some of the writing was another weak aspect aside from Sofia Coppola.

[@sorenthefilmbrony]

If you really think DwW wasn't a screenplay film, why didn't you replace that movie instead?

[@HAL-vm3wn]

supermariofan03 explain what the screenplay of The Godfather part 3 is supposed to have done wrong, please

[@ronaldmcdonald2817]

The Godfather part 3 was garbage.

[@Zachito15]

Rosebud, SD!!

[@linkbiff1054]

If Goodfellas featured fluent foreign language dialogue throughout almost half of it instead of heavy profanity and low-class New York english, it probably would have won.

[@mariahkelly1300]

Denzel is my boyfriend

[@rjmacready9828]

robbery, goodfellas should have won this, director, and best picture. worst mess-up in academy awards history

[@jacknsht5337]

Hell nah, clarice and dr. Lecter presenting like nothing happened 🤨🥴😳

[@Cunninghamily]

1:19

[@willhandsen2492]

At 1:23 is that Michael Jackson?

[@HyenaKiller]

It seems that way, I played the video in slo mo and it does appear to be him!

[@wolfpeach7501]

Yeah , he came to oscars that year.

[@Winduct]

Why do they make it such a big deal?

[@patricew.4010]

Winduct White guilt that was likely taught to them in school and media. However because of that, it also made bank.

[@supermariofan03]

Goodfellas should have won this, Dances with Wolves was more on the size and scope than writing.

[@supermariofan03]

Melanie Black Elk Why is everyone in these Oscar videos only reply to me just to cause bullshit?

[@melanieblackelk4252]

I have no clue what you are talking about. However, you should know that I come from Native American Royalty dude😂😂😂!

[@supermariofan03]

Melanie Black Elk 1. Good for you? 2. Writing is about dialogue and character interactions. Dances With Wolves does have that but in reality it’s the visuals and the cinematography that told the story so I don’t see that as a good enough reason to award it Best Screenplay when Goodfellas has all that.

[@handsomesttruebeautybodygu7263]

@@supermariofan03 it deserved it... Tired of those mafia movies always being celebrated

[@supermariofan03]

Blaise Samaki So you’re just focusing on the genre than the actual quality of the movie? Good to know.

[@alessandrom.vischio6672]

Al cinema (al mitico Maestoso di MI, sparito) visto tre volte, FOLGORATO ! In tv ..ho perso il conto, idem in BlueRay. Ho locandina e foto con dedica Di Kevin. Ho letto il libro, ed il film non molto distante. (A parte la mastrurbazione sulla collina)

[@kareypoorbear44]

❤️💛🤍🖤

[@austinteutsch]

We keep trying to make amends for our past mistakes, slavery of the blacks and stealing land from the Indians, and these Oscars given to this film is part of that amends. Now, let's get on with life as it is today. Tearing down statues is also part of that amends. IMO it ain't right, but I guess we're cleaning up our past. But enough already. Let's move forward.

[@patricew.4010]

austin teutsch Black slavery is still legal and operating in Africa (the world news is your friend.) and white have basically NOTHING to do with it, and conquering land isn’t exclusive to whites only. Asians, whites, blacks and “gasp” Indians have done it as well. Will never understand why whites get so much flack for doing what others have done, who don’t get the same exposure.

[@nenabunena]

Stealings people's land, killing off 99% of the population, relegating them in site condition, and apparently making 1 film that was the hatdwork of Blake and Costner to bring this to the publics attention is the US' way of making amends and reparations? Lol, so all the suffering equals 1 film that 2 Individuals made is now the amendment of the entire US nation? And people think the Japanese are villains for what they did to East Asia in ww2, lol

[@lynnturman8157]

Is Anthony Hopkins semi-literate?

[@maurabeamish2064]

No, he needed glasses.

[@diegopisfil614]

Goodfellas should have won

[@angelamitchinson8439]

No

[@vincentknight27]

Everybody knows Goodfellas was robbed that night

[@Denis-89]

Vincent Knight Time to get over that. It's been 25 years, pointless to still bicker over that. The Academy won't reclaim the win.. At the time Dances With Wolves was the better film and expected to win. It is still a masterpiece today and you can like both Dances With Wolves and Goodfellas.

[@ledepi34]

Vincent Knight The only thing I know or knew is I would find little comments like this.

[@TheTerryE]

jajceboy Anyone who thinks that Dances with Wolves is a masterpiece is completely illiterate.

[@joancarlestomas]

TheTerryE That's the kind of comment I was expecting.

[@Lundahlium]

Stop being delusional

[@branshatch6862]

what happened to movies??? so awful now, its all about diversity and promoting left wig agenda.

[@nenabunena]

Sjw has taken over the west and are heading over the rest of the world unfortunately