The Mission Movie

The Mission is a film distributed by Warner Bros. about a religious group that attempts to evangelize a village of South American Natives. Directed by Roland Joffe, the film was released on September 29, 1986. Joffe went on to direct: City of Joy, The Scarlett Letter and Vatel and is slated to work on You and I starring Mischa Barton.

1. Best Picture — Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam (nominated)
2. Best Director — Roland Joffe (nominated)
3. Best Art Direction — Stuart Craig and Jack Stephens (nominated)
4. Best Cinematography — Chris Menges (won)
5. Best Costume Design — Enrico Sabbatini (nominated)
6. Best Film Editing — Jim Clark (nominated)
7. Best Original Score — Ennio Morricone (nominated)

"Simultaneously slick and sloppy....For all of The Mission's back-to-nature trappings, it's actually a perfect film for the Reagan-and-Thatcher era that produced it." — Nick Davis from Nick's Flick Picks

"You'd like to know why so many talented people went to such incredible lengths to make a difficult and beautiful movie - without any of them, on the basis of the available evidence, having the slightest notion of what the movie was about. There isn't a moment in "The Mission" that is not watchable, but the moments don't add up to a coherent narrative. At the end, we can sort of piece things together, but the movie has never really made us care." — Roger Ebert