Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Apted
Screenplay by	Anna Hamilton Phelan
Story by	Anna Hamilton Phelan Tab Murphy
Based on	Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Produced by	Arne Glimcher Terence A. Clegg
Starring	Sigourney Weaver Bryan Brown
Cinematography	John Seale
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production company	The Guber-Peters Company
Distributed by	Universal Pictures (North America) Warner Bros. (International)
Release date	September 23, 1988 (1988-09-23)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$22 million[1]
Box office	$61.1 million[2]

Gorillas in the Mist^[a] is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes. It stars Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey and Bryan Brown as photographer Bob Campbell. It tells the story of Fossey, who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

The film was theatrically released in the United States by Universal Pictures on September 23, 1988. At the 61st Academy Awards, it earned five nominations, including Best Actress for Weaver and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film won Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Weaver and Best Original Score for Jarre at the 46th Golden Globe Awards, where it was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

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