Mrs. Doubtfire November 24, 1993. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Robin Williams was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actor. It grossed $441.3 million on a $25 million budget, becoming the second highest grossing film of 1993 worldwide. Though the film received mixed reviews during its original theatrical run, more recent reviews have been much more positive: the film placed 67th in the American Film Institute's "AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs" list and 40th on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies of All Time." The original music score was
Mrs. Ted Bliss Ford), " Galatea 2.2" (by Richard Powers, "Moo" (by Jane Smiley), and "The Tent of Orange Mist" (by Paul West). Elkin had earlier won in the same category for his 1982 novel "George Mills". Mrs. Ted Bliss Mrs. Ted Bliss is a 1995 novel by American author Stanley Elkin, published by Hyperion Books. It concerns the last eventful years in the life of an old widow. Elkin won the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in the fiction category for this work. Mrs. Dorothy Bliss is an old woman in her early 80s living alone in a retirement community near