On the 35th anniversary of NASA selecting eleven men for the brand-new space program, The Right Stuff, the movie about the selection of those astronauts won 4 Oscars at the 56th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, April 9, 1984.
It won Best Original Score for Bill Conti (beating John Williams for Return of the Jedi), Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing (beating Return of the Jedi), and Best Film Editing. It had been nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Shepard, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography.
It had an all-star cast, which surprises me that not more of them were nominated for Oscars. Among them were some of my favorites: Dennis Quaid (Gordon Cooper); Ed Harris (John Glenn) Lance Henriksen (Wally Schirra), and Veronica Cartwright (Betty Grissom).
It was a critically acclaimed movie but was a box-office failure. In 2013, it was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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