You’ll Never Believe What Went on Behind the Scenes of These Award-Winning Films

The Martian

The scene where Mark became emotional upon hearing Commander Lewis’ voice was genuine; Matt Damon was still on set after all the other actors had gone home, and their pre-recorded voices were being played to Damon through his helmet. When Damon dwelled on the realization that his character had been all alone on Mars for two years, he began to tear up. Director Ridley Scott was so impressed with the performance that he only did one take of the scene.

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The More You Know

  • While filming ‘The Machinist,’ Christian Bale only ate an apple and a can of tuna each day. His goal was to weigh 100 pounds before producers stopped him.
  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for.
  • While shooting 'Batman Begins' (2005) in Chicago, a drunk driver panicked and crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an invading alien.spacecraft
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