TORONTO – It’s high praise, indeed: astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) congratulated Gravity on its Oscar wins Sunday night.
Gravity won a total of seven Academy Awards on Sunday night, including Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón); Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Cinematography; Film Editing and Original Score (Steven Price).
The film is about two astronauts, played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, who are stranded in space after their space shuttle is damaged by debris from satellites that collided.
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Though the film is rife with scientific inaccuracies, many astronauts have said that the special effects — from the tools used, to the interior of the ISS — were highly detailed and accurate. The film made $705 million worldwide.
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The film used real images taken from space. On Monday, NASA created a Flickr gallery of images entitled “Gravity – NASA’s Real-Life Images from Space.”
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