Apocalypse Now

1979 147 min Drama, War

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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IMDb 8.4 RT 91 Metacritic 94

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2 wins

1979 CINEMATOGRAPHY Vittorio Storaro
1979 SOUND Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer

6 nominations

1979 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore) Robert Duvall
1979 ART DIRECTION Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson
1979 BEST PICTURE Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, Tom Sternberg
1979 DIRECTING Francis Ford Coppola
1979 FILM EDITING Jerry Greenberg, Walter Murch, Richard Marks, Lisa Fruchtman
1979 WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius