Rock me, Amadeus

Milos Forman's 1984 film Amadeus won the 1985 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham). It also won for Costume Design, Makeup, Sound, Writing (Adapted Screenplay), and Art Direction. It was also nominated for Best Cinematography and Editing and Tom Hulce was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his extremely memorable role as the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Now, I hate on the academy awards as much as anybody, but it's rare that a film can clean up like that if it doesn't legitimately kick ass. Amadeus does not disappoint. The story of the prodigious and irreverant young musician and composer is told through the last confession of inferior composer Antonio Salieri, his greatest enemy and the perpetrator of Herr Mozart's early demise. This film is incredibly enjoyable for anyone, but for lovers of opera, it is truly marvelous.