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Quills director Philip Kaufman's approach as "brutally horrific, vulgarly unamusing," creating a film that succeeds only as "soft-gore porn." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" dismissed the film as an "overripe contrivance masquerading as high art", while de Sade biographer Neil Schaeffer in "The Guardian" criticized the film for historical inaccuracies and for simplifying de Sade's complex life (see below). Although not winning any major awards, "Quills" was prominently nominated several times. "Quills" received three Oscar nominations at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards for Actor in a Leading Role (Geoffrey Rush, previous winner for 1996's "Shine"), Art Direction (Art: Martin