Salvador (film)

Salvador
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Oliver Stone
Written by	Oliver Stone Richard Boyle
Produced by	Oliver Stone Gerald Green
Starring	James Woods Jim Belushi Michael Murphy John Savage Elpidia Carrillo Cindy Gibb
Cinematography	Robert Richardson
Edited by	Claire Simpson
Music by	Georges Delerue
Distributed by	Hemdale Film Corporation
Release date	March 5, 1986 (1986-03-05) [1]
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Spanish
Budget	$4.5 million
Box office	$1.5 million (US)[1]

Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. It stars James Woods as Richard Boyle, alongside Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy and Elpidia Carrillo, with John Savage and Cynthia Gibb in supporting roles. Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Boyle.

The film tells the story of an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War who becomes entangled with both the FMLN and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children. The film is highly sympathetic toward the left-wing revolutionaries and strongly critical of the US-supported military dictatorship, focusing on the murder of four American Catholic missionaries, including Jean Donovan, and the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero by death squads. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Woods) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Stone and Boyle).^[2]