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Being There

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Original title: Being There

4

nominations

25%

winning rate

1

win

British Academy Film Awards #34 - 1981

Award People Status
Best Picture Andrew Braunsberg - as producer(s)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Peter Sellers
Best Actress in a Leading Role Shirley MacLaine
Best Screenplay Jerzy Kosiński Winner

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