Awards and Nominations
- Academy Awards
Moulin Rouge received seven Academy Award nominations and won two:
- Best Picture
- Best Director - John Huston
- Best Actor - José Ferrer
- Best Supporting Actress - Colette Marchand
- Best Editing - Ralph Kemplen
- Best Art Direction - Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertès (winner)
- Best Costume Design - Marcel Vertès (winner)
Rather incredibly, it was not nominated for its color cinematography, which many critics found remarkable. Leonard Maltin, in his annual Movie and Video Guide, declared "If you can't catch this in color, skip it".
- BAFTA Awards
The film received three BAFTA Nominations for
- Best British Film
- Best Film from any Source
- Most Promising Newcomer - Colette Marchand
- Golden Globe Awards
The film won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Colette Marchand
In an interview shortly after his successful film version of "Cabaret" opened, Bob Fosse acknowledged Huston's filming of the can-can in "Moulin Rouge" as being very influential on his own film style.
- Other awards
- Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival - John Huston
- British Society of Cinematographers - Oswald Morris
The Moulin Rouge Theme became quite well known, and made it to the charts.
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