Hugh Hudson, who directed one classic film — Oscar winner “Chariots of Fire” — over a career that spanned only 15 films, died Friday in London. He was 86. The Guardian said he had died…
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“Chariots of Fire” was the story of the rivalry between two British runners, one Jewish, the other a devout Christian, culminating in the 1924 Olympics. Hudson was Oscar nominated for best director in 1982, and the movie won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best score for the electronic compositions of Vangelis that somehow worked splendidly in the period film.
Hudson had done a great deal with the £3 million budget of “Chariots of Fire” given the costs usually associated with a period film — and the movie had generated box office of $58 million in the U.S. alone. The New York Times said Hudson and “his associates have made something much more than a good fantasy. They have discovered reserves of feeling and beauty in the old Edgar Rice Burroughs tales that remained unexplored by Burroughs himself and by the dozens of journeymen who have been cranking out Tarzan movies and television serials over the years.
Almost 20 years after “Chariots of Fire,” Hudson reteamed with “Chariots” producer David Puttnam to make another period film centered on the English aristocracy of the 1920s. “My Life So Far” starred Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irene Jacob and Malcolm McDowell. Firth played an oddball inventor who falls in love with the fiancée of his more practical businessman uncle , all at a strange castle in the Scottish Highlands where Harris, playing Firth’s mother, sternly presides.
Hudson was also an award-winning director of commercials before, during and after his feature helming career, working at times with Ridley Scott’s RSA company, though he did much of his significant commercials work at his own Hudson Films. His most famous spot, which was for British Airways, depicted large groups of people forming parts of the face and finally the entire face. The very expensive so-called face commercial, which first aired in 1989, was seen around the world.
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