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Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur(1959)

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  • Voted Best Picture of the Year by the 1959 New York Film Critics Association.
  • Voted Best Supporting Actor (Griffith) and One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1959 National Board of Review.
  • Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1959 New York Times Film Critics.
  • Winner of a Special Citation for Andrew Morton and Yakima Canutt by the 1959 National Board of Review for their direction of the chariot sequence.
  • Released in United States 2011
  • Released in United States on Video March 13, 2001
  • Released in United States Winter December 1959
  • Re-released in United States September 14, 1990
  • The film's eleven Oscars is tied with director James Cameron's "Titanic" (USA/1997) for most wins in Academy Award history.
  • Released in USA on video.
  • Selected in 2004 for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
  • Released in United States 2011 (Masterworks)
  • Released in United States on Video March 13, 2001
  • Re-released in United States September 14, 1990 (Los Angeles)
  • Camera 65
  • Released in United States Winter December 1959