The Burning Season (1994 film)

The Burning Season

Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Produced by	John Frankenheimer Thomas M. Hammel Grazia Rade Grazka Taylor
Screenplay by	William Mastrosimone Michael Tolkin Ron Hutchinson
Story by	William Mastrosimone
Based on	The Burning Season by Andrew Revkin
Starring	Raúl Juliá Carmen Argenziano Sonia Braga Kamala Lopez-Dawson Luis Guzmán
Music by	Gary Chang
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Edited by	Paul Rubell
Distributed by	HBO
Release dates	September 16, 1994 (1994-09-16)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Burning Season is a 1994 television movie directed by John Frankenheimer. The film chronicles Chico Mendes' fight to protect the rainforest. This was one of Raúl Juliá's last film releases (The other being the film adaptation of Street Fighter). The movie was based in part on the 1990 book of the same name by journalist Andrew Revkin.

Plot

Chico Mendes was a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist who was murdered in 1988 by ranchers opposed to his activism. The movie opens in 1951 with a young Chico Mendes witnessing his father's interaction with corrupt ranchers who are exploiting peasants for their work. The bulk of the film then takes place between 1983 and 1988, showing Mendes' activism to preserve the Amazon rainforest, to his murder in a drive-by shooting by a disgruntled rancher.

Cast

Raúl Juliá.....Francisco "Chico" Mendes
Carmen Argenziano.....Alfredo Sezero
Sonia Braga.....Regina de Carvalho
Kamala Lopez.....Ilzamar
Luis Guzmán.....Estate Boss
Nigel Havers.....Steven Kaye
Tomas Milian.....Darli Alves
Esai Morales.....Jair
Edward James Olmos.....Wilson Pinheiro

Awards and nominations

American Cinema Editors

Nominated: Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television (Françoise Bonnot and Paul Rubell)

Casting Society of America

Nominated: Best Casting for TV Movie of the Week (Junie Lowry-Johnson)

Emmy Awards

Won: Outstanding Directing in Miniseries or a Special (John Frankenheimer)
Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special (Raúl Juliá [posthumously])
Nominated: Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Special (Ron Hutchinson, William Mastrosimone and Michael Tolkin)
Nominated: Outstanding Made for Television Movie
Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special (Edward James Olmos)
Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special (Sonia Braga)

Golden Globe Awards

Won: Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (Raúl Juliá [posthumously])
Won: Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Won: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (Edward James Olmos)
Nominated: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (Sonia Braga)

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Won: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries (Raúl Juliá [posthumously])

External links

The Burning Season at the Internet Movie Database
The Burning Season (1994 film) at AllMovie
The Burning Season (1994 film) at the TCM Movie Database
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (1990 Mendes biography by Andrew Revkin)

Films directed by John Frankenheimer

The Young Stranger (1957)
The Young Savages (1961)
All Fall Down (1962)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Train (1964)
Seconds (1966)
Grand Prix (1966)
The Fixer (1968)
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
I Walk the Line (1970)
The Horsemen (1971)
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
Story of a Love Story (1973)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
French Connection II (1975)
Black Sunday (1977)
Prophecy (1979)
The Challenge (1982)
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Dead Bang (1989)
The Fourth War (1990)
Year of the Gun (1991)
Against the Wall (1994)
The Burning Season (1994)
Andersonville (1996)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
George Wallace (1997)
Ronin (1998)
Reindeer Games (2000)
Path to War (2002)

Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk (1971)
That Certain Summer (1972)
The Shadow Box (1980)
Bill (1981)
Brideshead Revisited (1982)
The Thorn Birds (1983)
Something About Amelia (1984)
The Jewel in the Crown (1985)
Promise (1986)
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
War and Remembrance (1988)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Decoration Day (1990)
One Against the Wind (1991)
Sinatra (1992)
Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
The Burning Season (1994)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)
George Wallace (1997)
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
RKO 281 (1999)
Dirty Pictures (2000)
Band of Brothers (2001)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Angels in America (2003)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Empire Falls (2005)
Elizabeth I (2006)
Longford (2007)
John Adams (2008)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Carlos (2010)
Downton Abbey, series 1 (2011)
Game Change (2012)
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Fargo, season 1 (2014)
Wolf Hall (2015)

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