Producer: Norman Jewison
Director: Norman Jewison
Awards: "Fiddler on the Roof" won three Academy Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Music & Best Sound. It was also nominated for five other Oscars: Best Actor (Topol), Best Supporting Actor (Leonard Frey), Best Art Direction, Best Picture & Best Director. It has achieved six other awards with nominations for an additional thirteen.
Interesting Fact: They had created a little white ball to atach above the camera. It's location represented the direction that Topol would look when he was talking to God, so his eyes stayed on a consistent area throughout the film.
My Favorite Scene: Who doesn't love the "If I Were a Rich Man" sequence. The song is powerful, with a powerful message. His dancing is original and comes straight from his soul. This is a beautiful movie.
To this day my Mom is still upset that the Best Picture Academy Award went to "The French Connection" (1971) instead of this movie. I love this film for it's spyglass history on an era long forgotten. Just as we read books to discover the past, the rising generation will be looking to the films of the past also. I've heard of the repression faced in Russia, but never saw it or understood it. At the center of every dance step and every note sung you see and hear their tragedy and triumphs being written out on tablets of film strips.
Tevye: "As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face."
Trailer
"If I Were a Rich Man"
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