The film also features, as "witnesses," interviews with the celebrated radical educator and peace activist 98-year old Scott Nearing (1883-1983), author Dorothy Frooks (1896-1997), reporter and author George Seldes (1890-1995), and the American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), among others. Warren Beatty was awarded the Oscar for Best Director for the film. It was also nominated for Best Picture, but lost to Chariots of Fire.
During filming, Beatty lectured his Russianextras on the capitalistexploitation of labour, attempting to inspire them. According to the magazineTotal Film in 2004, this was the 4th "dumbest decision in movie history": the extras duly went on strike, demanding higher wages.
To date, this is the last film to receive Oscar nominations in each of the four acting categories. No film since Reds has achieved this feat.
Warren Beatty began filming interviews with the "witnesses" in the early 1970s.
Gene Hackman performed in an unbilled cameo role as Pete Van Wherry. The scene in which he tells Jack Reed that Louise Bryant no longer works for him took exactly 100 takes to shoot. Hackman vowed that he would not shoot a 101st take and he did not.
In a 1981 interview with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd on a talk show (included as a bonus on the 'Best of Saturday Night Live: John Belushi' DVD), Belushi and Aykroyd mentioned 'Reds' as one of their favorite recent movies.
Jerzy Kosinski played the role of Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Grigory Zinoviev. The Time magazine critic wrote: "As Reed's Soviet nemesis, novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself nicely--a tundra of ice against Reed's all-American fire." Newsweek complimented Kosinski's "delightfully abrasive" performance."[1]
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