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* [[Academy Award]]: 1984 Best Picture winner. [[Milos Forman]] also won Best Director, and F. Murray Abraham won Best Actor for his turn as
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]
* [[Always Second Best]]
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Curiously averted. Although the movie takes '''great''' [[Artistic License]] with Mozart and Salieri's relationship, it is surprisingly accurate on a number of levels. First, meticulous care was put into accurately portraying the period. Second, Mozart was just as annoying in real life: [[Joseph Haydn]] once saw him make a hundred enemies at a single party.
** Also, one of the film's greatest inaccuracies is Mozart's composition method, stating that he composed entirely in his head and then wrote the music down in a single draft. Although this is untrue (Mozart's sheet music went through numerous revisions, like any other composer), it is not a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]] so much as [[History Marches On]], as the single-draft method was perpetrated by historians in the 19th century.
* [[Driven by Envy]]: Salieri, Very much
* [[Faith Heel Turn]]
* [[Fan Service]]: In the [[Directors Cut]], you get to see Elizabeth Berridge topless.
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* [[Toilet Humour]]: Mozart's sense of humor is rather... lavatorial.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: While by no means pure, Salieri admitted at the end that Mozart (or at least, his music) was so sacred that {{spoiler|God himself called him home to [[Out-Gambitted]] Salieri's plot to kill him and steal the last laugh from right under the Most High's nose}}.
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: [[In-Universe]], Mozart is seen struggling against everyone who can't comprehend the operas and music he's creating for them. Most of
* [[Unknown Rival]]
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]
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