The Way We Were
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Movie poster by Bill Gold
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| Directed by | Sydney Pollack |
| Produced by | Ray Stark |
| Written by | Arthur Laurents |
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Barbra Streisand Robert Redford |
| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling, Jr. |
| Edited by | John F. Burnett Margaret Booth (supervising) |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $49,919,870 |
The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
A box office success, the film was nominated for several awards and won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for the theme song, "The Way We Were," It ranked at number 6 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions survey of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The Way We Were is considered one of the greatest romantic movies ever.
The soundtrack recording became a gold record and hit the Top 20 the Billboard 200 while the single became a million-selling gold single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 respectively, selling more than two million copies. Billboard named "The Way We Were" as the number 1 pop hit of 1974. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and finished at number 8 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema in 2004. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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