bridge on the river kwai won seven academy awards.
bridge on the river kwai won seven academy awards.
how many academy awards did bridge on the river kwai win?
seven
the film was widely praised, winning seven academy awards (including best picture) at the 30th academy awards. it used lush colour to bring out the british stiff upper lip of the colonel, played by alec guinness in an oscar-winning performance. in 1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the national film registry by the united states library of congress. it has been included on the american film institute's list of best american films ever made. in 1999, the british film institute voted "the bridge on the river kwai" the 11th greatest british film of the 20th century.
the bridge on the river kwai
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"the "river kwai" march" is a march composed by malcolm arnold in 1957. it was written as an orchestral counter-march to the "colonel bogey march", which is whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film "the bridge on the river kwai" and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally dedicated. the arnold march re-appears (without the "colonel bogey march") several times in the film and is repeated at the finale.
the river kwai march