Jurassic Park (1993 Film)

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Jurassic Park
A black poster featuring a red shield with a stylized Tyrannosaurus skeleton under a plaque reading "Jurassic Park". Below is the tagline "An Adventure 65 Million Years In the Making".
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Produced by
Screenplay by
Based onJurassic Park 
by Michael Crichton
Starring
Music byJohn Williams
CinematographyDean Cundey
Edited byMichael Kahn
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • June 11, 1993 (1993-06-11)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$63 million [1]
Box office$1,029,153,882[1]

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the first installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. It is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, with a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp. The film centers on the fictional Isla Nublar, an islet located off Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, where a billionaire philanthropist and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.


Plot

John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), the founder and CEO of bioengineering company InGen, has created a theme park called Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, a tropical island near Costa Rica, populated with cloned dinosaurs. After a park worker is killed by a Velociraptor, the park's investors, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), demand that experts visit the park and certify it as safe. Gennaro

Cast

Main article: List of Jurassic Park characters
  • Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant, a leading paleontologist.
  • Laura Dern as Dr. Ellie Sattler, a paleobotanist.
  • Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm, a mathematician and chaos theorist.
  • Richard Attenborough as John Hammond, InGen's billionaire CEO and the park's creator.
  • Ariana Richards as Alexis "Lex" Murphy, Hammond's granddaughter.
  • Joseph Mazzello as Timothy "Tim" Murphy, Hammond's grandson.
  • Bob Peck as Robert Muldoon, the park's game warden.
  • Martin Ferrero as Donald Gennaro, a lawyer who represents Hammond's concerned investors.
  • Wayne Knight as Dennis Nedry, the disgruntled architect of the park's computer systems.
  • Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold, the park's chief engineer.
  • Cameron Thor as Dr. Lewis Dodgson, the head of InGen's rival, BioSyn.
  • Miguel Sandoval as Juanito Rostagno, the Mano de Dios amber mine's proprietor.
  • Gerald R. Molen as Dr. Gerry Harding, the park's veterinarian.
  • BD Wong as Dr. Henry Wu, the park's chief geneticist.
  • Richard Kiley as himself, providing audio narration for the park's main tour.
  • Greg Burson as Mr. D.N.A., the animated DNA strand that explains the miracle of cloning.

Production

Development

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Michael Crichton's book attracted the attention of director Steven Spielberg even before publishing. The author was also responsible for the film's first scripts.

Michael Crichton originally conceived a screenplay about a graduate student who recreates a dinosaur; he continued to wrestle with his fascination with dinosaurs and cloning until he began writing the novel Jurassic Park.[2] Even before publication, Steven Spielberg learned of the novel in October 1989 while he a

Writing

Universal paid Crichton a further $500,000 to adapt his own novel,[3] which he had finished by the time Spielberg was fi

Filming

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Replica of the Ford Explorers featured in the film at Universal Studios Japan.

After 25 months of pre-production, filming began on August 24, 1992, on the Hawaiian island of [[Kauai|KauaTemplate:Okinai]].[4] While Costa Rica was considered as a location given it is the story's setting, Spielberg's concerns on infrastructure and accessibility made him choose a place where he had already worked before.[5] T

Post-production

Special effects work continued on the film

Music

Main article: Jurassic Park (film score)
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John Williams

Composer John Williams began scoring the film at the end of February,

Dinosaurs on screen

[[File:StanWinstonTRex.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The life-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus on the set. It is the largest sculpture ever made by Stan Winston Studio.[6]|alt=A life-sized Tyrannosaurus robotic model, with hydraulics where the dinosaur's feet would be, touches a car in a mov

Release and promotion

Universal took the lengthy pre-production to carefully plan the Jur

Theatrical re-releases

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The theatrical poster for the 3D re-release of Jurassic Park

In anticipation to the Blu-ray release, Jurassic Park had a digital print released in UK cinemas on September 23, 2011.[7] It wound up gro

Reception

Box office

Jurassic Park became the highest grossing film released worldwide up to that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial which previously held the title (though it did not top E.T.

Critical response

Jurassic Park received widespread critical acclaim.[8] High praise was heaped on the visual effects, although there was some criticism leveled at departures from the book.

American Film Institute recognition

Accolades

In March 1994, Jurassic Park won all three Academy Awards it was nominated for: Best Sound Editing, [[Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing|Be

Year Award Category Nominees Result
1993 Bambi Awards[9] International Film Jurassic Park Won
1994 66th Academy Awards[10] Best Sound Editing Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns Won
Best Sound Mixing Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins Won
Best Visual Effects Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri Won
Saturn Awards[11] Best Director Steven Spielberg Won
Best Science Fiction Film Jurassic Park Won
Best Special Effects Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri Won
Best Writing Michael Crichton and David Koepp Won
Best Actress Laura Dern Nominated
Best Costumes Nominated
Best Music John Williams Nominated
Best Performance by a Young Actor Joseph Mazzello Nominated
Best Performance by a Young Actor Ariana Richards Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Jeff Goldblum Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Wayne Knight Nominated
Awards of the Japanese Academy[12] Best Foreign Film Jurassic Park Won
BAFTA Awards[13] Best Special Effects Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri Won
Best Sound Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins Nominated
BMI Film Music Award[14] BMI Film Music Award John Williams Won
Blue Ribbon Awards[15] Best Foreign Language Film Steven Spielberg Won
Bram Stoker Award[16] Screenplay Michael Crichton and David Koepp Nominated
Cinema Audio Society[17] Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins Nominated
Czech Lions[18] Best Foreign Language Film Steven Spielberg Won
Grammy Awards[19] Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television John Williams Nominated
MTV Movie Award[20] Best Action Sequence Nominated
Best Movie Jurassic Park Nominated
Best Villain T. rex Nominated
Mainichi Film Concours[21] Best Foreign Language Film (Fan Choice) Steven Spielberg Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors[22] Best Sound Editing Won
People's Choice Awards[23] Favorite Motion Picture Jurassic Park Won
Young Artist Awards[24] Best Youth Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture Drama Joseph Mazzello Won
Best Youth Actress Leading Role in a Motion Picture Drama Ariana Richards Won
Outstanding Family Motion Picture - Action/Adventure Jurassic Park Won
Hugo Awards[25] Best Dramatic Presentation Jurassic Park Won

Legacy

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Entrance to the Jurassic Park Discovery Center at Islands of Adventure.

In the years following its release, Jurassic Park has frequently been cited by film critics and industry professionals as one of the greatest movies of the action and thriller genres. The [[American Film In

Sequels and merchandise

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Home media

The film made its


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