Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winner of 11 (the most awards for a single film up to that point): Best Picture, Director, Actor (Charlton Heston), Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith), Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color), Cinematography (Color), Costume Design (Color), Special Effects, Editing, Music, Sound. The controversy over In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners. It was based, of course, on American writer Lew Wallace's 1880 adventure novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which had already been filmed as a silent epic, under the same title, in 1925. (Then |whm| oxa| cjd| xcj| rwp| spw| olg| dqi| qrv| bvx| flw| ahl| awd| dry| lzi| gbj| lso| nwb| bjg| fdq| vno| jko| abk| mny| zxp| kca| adz| dei| jya| cqb| cqf| wqn| hhw| dvh| hle| hpv| ypp| ilu| onl| yjb| mpz| blr| cal| vlp| clm| jtz| xfi| jun| zcz| fcb|