Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. Adapting the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, the film chronicles the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, depicting how an onboard explosion forced NASA' s flight controllers to improvise solutions to return the three astronauts safely to Earth.
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AwardAcademy Award for Best Film Editing 1 AwardAcademy Award for Best Sound 1 Release Year Connections
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1. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: The 68th Academy Awards | 1996
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesCeremony 1996: Film Editing
Film Editing Winner Apollo 13
Ceremony 1996: Sound
Sound Winner Apollo 13
View the Source 2. Library of Congress, National Film Preservation Board: Complete National Film Registry Listing
Library of Congress, National Film Preservation BoardNational Film Registry listing row: film released 1995, inducted 2023Quote, National Film Registry listing row: film released 1995, inducted 2023
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3. Apollo 13 (film) (Wikipedia)
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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.
Created By: Ron Howard, Infobox: director
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