Where to watch Dances with Wolves (1990)

Trivia & production notes

• Kevin Costner encouraged screenwriter Michael Blake to adapt his unsold 1980s screenplay into a novel after they worked together on Stacy's Knights in 1983, which helped get the project off the ground.
• Costner turned down a starring role in The Hunt for Red October to direct and star in Dances With Wolves instead.
• Multiple studios rejected the project, citing the declining popularity of Westerns, the failure of Heaven's Gate, and the script's length.
• Costner secured final cut rights as part of his deal with Orion Pictures, a crucial concession that gave him complete creative control.
• Production lasted roughly four months, from mid-July to late November 1989, with most of the film shot on location in South Dakota.
• The character Stands With A Fist was based on Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman captured by Comanches who became the mother of Chief Quanah Parker.
• Composer John Barry's Oscar-winning score also won a Grammy Award.
• Members of the Lakota Sioux Nation formally adopted Costner, McDonnell, and Wilson into their families as an honor for the film.
• Dances With Wolves became the first Western film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture since Cimarron in 1931, and holds the record for most Oscars won by a Western with seven awards.
• The film's home video rental was released in 1991 and broke the rental record previously set by Ghost with 649,000 units.

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