‘Out of Africa’ was the movie that won in the Best Picture category at the 58th Academy Awards. The film was directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starred Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The movie was based on the auto-biographical novel by Isak Dinesen, the pen name of Danish writer Karen Blixen. It tells of Blixen’s time in the Kenyan highlands in the years before, during, and after World War I.
The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch Hatton; and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. The movie is taken from the perspective of Karen Blixen.
The movie was shot in many of the real places mentioned in the book, like the Ngong hills, and Nairobi. It received eleven Academy Award nominations, and won seven of them including- Best Picture and Best Director. The music for ‘Out of Africa’ was composed by John Barry, who won an Oscar for his work.
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