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(Bonus) Dr. Strangelove Movie - Wikipedia
02/22/2024
(Bonus) Dr. Strangelove Movie - Wikipedia
(Bonus) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 directed, co-written, and produced by and starring in three roles, including the title character. The film, which satirizes the fears of a between the and the , also stars , , , , and , and is loosely based on the novel (1958) by , who also co-wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and . The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force exchange officer as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 (following orders from the general) from bombing the Soviet Union and starting a nuclear war. The film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made and . In 1998, the ranked it twenty-sixth in (in the 2007 edition, the film ranked thirty-ninth), and in 2000, it was listed as number three on . In 1989, the United States included Dr. Strangelove as one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film received four nominations, including , , , and for Sellers. The film was also nominated for seven , winning , , and , and it also won the .
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