Blowup Overview:

Blowup (1966) was a Mystery - Drama Film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti and Pierre Rouve.

Academy Awards 1966 --- Ceremony Number 39 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniNominated
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Quotes from Blowup:

Jane: What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.
Thomas: Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.


Thomas: What do you they call you in bed?


Thomas: Someone's been killed. I want you to see the corpse.


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Facts about Blowup:

The film contains a rare performance of The Yardbirds during the period when Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were both in the band. Jeff Beck would leave a few months later.
Loosely based on the careers of Swinging London's ace fashion photographers David Bailey and Terence Donovan.
Among the homeless men whose photos were taken by the David Hemmings character is Julio Cortázar who wrote the original short story on which Blowup is based.
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