![]() ![]() The Deer Hunter won five Oscars, earning one for Best Picture and another for Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken. Frequently mentioned among the ‘ greatest films ever made’, the film still stays relevant today as well. ![]() The story revolves around a voyage Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) embarks on, to move through the jungles of the Cambodia-Vietnam border in order to take out ace American colonel Kurtz who has supposedly gone insane and is being worshipped by the Vietnamese as a god.Īmidst all the Academies and Golden Globe nominations raining in on it, the film went home with a Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. The film starred Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen. Francis Ford Coppola took the novel ‘ Heart of Darkness’ written by Joseph Conrad and made it his own, changing the backdrop from the Belgian Congo to the Vietnam War.
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