Drama / Mystery
USA / UK,
1977, 137 min
Directed by:
Sidney LumetCinematography:
Oswald MorrisComposer:
Richard Rodney BennettCast:
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Jenny Agutter, Ken James, John Wyman, Brook Williams, Kate Reid (more)Plots(1)
A film adaptation of the play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth) who, in frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? (Sandpiper Pictures)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 1978 - Richard Burton (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
- 1978 - Peter Firth (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role)
- 1978 - Peter Shaffer (Best Adapted Screenplay)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 1978 - Jenny Agutter (Best Supporting Actress)
- 1978 - Colin Blakely (Best Supporting Actor)
- 1978 - Joan Plowright (Best Supporting Actress)
- 1978 - Peter Shaffer (Best Screenplay)
- 1978 - Richard Rodney Bennett (Best Music)
Golden Globes
- 1978 - Richard Burton (Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama)
- 1978 - Peter Firth (Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture)