The Great Race won the film an Oscar. In his Top 10 Favorite Comedies video, Doug Walker cited Jack Lemmon's performance as Professor Fate as a major influence for his "Nostalgia Critic" internet persona. The Great Race The Great Race is a 1965 American Technicolor slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost US$12 million (equivalent to $ million in ),
Fate (role-playing game system) also are used for the "Dresden Files" role-playing game. The System Reference Documents for "Spirit of the Century" and "Diaspora" are also currently available. Several other role-playing games are built on the game mechanics of "Fate 3.0". A new (4th) edition called "Fate Core" (again a generic version) was published in 2013, funded by a successful crowdfunding campaign, and released under two free content licenses: CC BY 3.0 and the Open gaming license. As a result of the crowd funding effort, Evil Hat Productions released "Fate Accelerated", a streamlined version of the rules based on the same core mechanic intended