All That Jazz (film)

All That Jazz
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBob Fosse
Written byRobert Alan Aurthur
Bob Fosse
Produced byRobert Alan Aurthur
StarringRoy Scheider
Jessica Lange
Ann Reinking
Leland Palmer
Cliff Gorman
Ben Vereen
CinematographyGiuseppe Rotunno
Edited byAlan Heim
Music byRalph Burns
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century-Fox (United States and Canada)
Columbia Pictures (International)
Release date
  • December 20, 1979 (1979-12-20)
Running time
123 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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]

  1. ^ "ALL THAT JAZZ (X)". British Board of Film Classification. 1980-01-28. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  2. ^ Solomon 2002, p. 258.
  3. ^ "All That Jazz, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
  4. ^ "ALL THAT JAZZ". Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
  5. ^ "Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2020-11-15. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  6. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2020-10-04. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

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