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A particularly sadistic dentistry scene provides one of the more memorable moments of the film, which neatly draws upon Levy’s memories of the heroic feats of two-time Olympic marathon champion Abeba Bikila to help him escape from the bad guys.Īwards: Laurence Olivier won the best actor in a supporting role award at the 1977 Golden Globes. This 1976 suspense thriller stars Dustin Hoffmann as grad student and running obsessive Thomas 'Babe' Levy, who is pursued by Nazi war criminal Dr Christian Szell over a briefcase of missing diamonds.

It was also nominated for best foreign language film at the 1999 Academy Awards. When he can't, he tries a new way to ‘win’ a new pair: a local 4km race.Īwards: the film won four accolades at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival, as well as numerous other awards at various other international ceremonies. After Ali loses his Zahra’s pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. This 1997 Iranian family drama focuses on a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. It also won three Golden Globes, a Bafta, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He replies: “I just felt like running”.Īwards: it dominated the 67th Academy Awards, picking up six Oscars, including best picture. In one memorable scene, Forrest is swarmed by a pack of journalists who all ask him why he is doing it. A talented runner, Forrest embarks on a relentless three-year run across the USA which attracts the attention of the national press. The eponymous character, played by Tom Hanks, is a slow-witted but kind-hearted man who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century United States. It also scooped awards at the Grammys, Golden Globes, Baftas and Cannes Film Festival.Īlthough not strictly a film solely about athletics, running is a key theme in this 1994 film. This 1981 film tells the story of two British athletes at the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew.Īwards: it cleaned up at the 54th Academy Awards, winning the gongs for best picture, best original screenplay, best costume design and best original score. Not just the best athletics movie ever made, but one of the greatest films, period.

No such films have made it among the nominees at this year’s Academy Awards, but here are some of the most successful athletics-related flicks of all time. It may be a niche genre, but athletics movies tend to perform pretty well during awards season.

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