Title: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Runtime: 108 Min
Year: 1967
Genres: Drama - Romance
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Roy Glenn, Isabel Sanford, Virginia Christine, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D'Urville Martin, Tom Heaton, Grace Gaynor, Skip Martin, John Hudkins
Directed By: Stanley Kramer
PLOT
Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . .
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: William Rose
Awards:
1968- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
- Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn was not present at the awards ceremony. George Cukor accepted the award on her behalf. (WON)
-Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen William Rose (WON)
-Best Actor in a Leading Role Spencer Tracy Posthumously. (NOMINATED)
-Best Actor in a Supporting Role Cecil Kellaway (NOMINATED)
-Best Actress in a Supporting Role Beah Richards (NOMINATED)
-Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Robert Clatworthy and Frank Tuttle (NOMINATED)
-Best Director Stanley Kramer (NOMINATED)
-Best Film Editing Robert C. Jones (NOMINATED)
-Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment Frank De Vol (NOMINATED)
-Best Picture Stanley Kramer (NOMINATED)
|