"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" released 1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the third installment of Steven Spielberg's and George Lucas' Indiana Jones franchise, was released May 24, 1989.  Harrison Ford starred in the title role and Sean Connery played his father. 

It became the highest grossing movie world-wide in 1989.  It won an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing.  It was nominated for Best Sound and John Williams was nominated for his original score.

Sean Connery was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Professor Henry Jones.

"The Right Stuff" wins 4 Academy Awards 1984

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".