All That Jazz | |
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Directed by | Bob Fosse |
Written by | Robert Alan Aurthur Bob Fosse |
Produced by | Robert Alan Aurthur |
Starring | Roy Scheider Jessica Lange Ann Reinking Leland Palmer Cliff Gorman Ben Vereen |
Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
Edited by | Alan Heim |
Music by | Ralph Burns |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox (United States and Canada) Columbia Pictures (International) |
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Running time | 123 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million[2] |
Box office | $37.8 million[3] |
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider. The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging the 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. It borrows its title from the Kander and Ebb tune "All That Jazz" in that production.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival (tied with Kagemusha). At the 52nd Academy Awards, it was nominated for nine Oscars, winning four: Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, and Best Film Editing.
In 2001, All That Jazz was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[4][5][6]