1978
Academy Awards
Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Burton
Actor in a Supporting Role
Peter Firth
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)
Peter Shaffer

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
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1978
Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Burton
Actor in a Supporting Role
Peter Firth
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)
Peter Shaffer
1978
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Richard Burton
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Peter Firth
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