The movie is technically as perfect as an historical epic can be. My favorite Movie of all time and fairly accurate historically. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS is an outstanding (and brilliantly filmed) study of a man who is faced with a harrowingly difficult moral choice. A Man for All Seasons, a play written by Robert Bolt, retells the historic events surrounding Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor of England who remained silent regarding Henry VIII's divorce.Because More would not take an oath which essentially endorsed the king's separation from the church in Rome, the Chancellor was imprisoned, tried, and eventually executed. The 1966 film (there is also a 1988 Charlton Heston made-for-TV version), which won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Paul Scofield), is brilliant and compelling, steely with conviction, luminous with genuine wisdom and wit. Amazon.com: A Man for All Seasons: Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Martin Chamberlain, Fraser C. Heston, Peter Snell, Robert Bolt: Movies & TV This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of A Man For All Seasons. Majestic music by Georges Delerue accompanies the opening sequence and credits from the 1966 Best Picture winner A Man for All Seasons, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw and Leo McKern, from the play and screenplay by Robert Bolt. The film is simply exquisite. A Man for All Seasons: a Play in Two Acts, Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More. (He drinks from the cup) All right-the Six-- (He breaks off, agreeably surprised by the Man for All Seasons, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Sequence. The choice remains clear to him, even at great cost not just to himself but to his family. He won Oscars both for the movie and his direction. Sir Thomas More is a man of principle and reason, and is thus placed in a difficult position: should he stand up for his principles, risking the wrath of a corrupt King fond of executing people for treason? Yet at the play’s close, even the Common Man has unraveled and behaves in a reprehensible way, causing us to rethink the opinions we have had of him all along. burst o f conversational merriment off; he pauses and indicates head o f stairs) There's company to dinner. It presents the man as he was with all his flaws but also his greatness. A Man for All Seasons was one of the last highly-regarded films to be helmed by Fred Zinnemann. With Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson. For many years, A Man for All Seasons was the definitive dramatic portrayal of Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield). Read, review and discuss the entire A Man for All Seasons movie script by Robert Bolt on Scripts.com This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Man for All Seasons. Finally, the A Man For All Seasons script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Paul Scofield as Thomas More movie. I wish that the film had been able to present a more complete biography, but it would take 6 or 7 hours to do so and that was not possible for a film (maybe a mini-series, but it would have lost its impact). I wish that the film had been able to present a more complete biography, but it would take 6 or 7 hours to do so and that was not possible for a film (maybe a mini-series, but it would have lost its impact). Directed by Charlton Heston. All that being said, as I reflect momentarily in my head on closing this, it is Scofield's incomparable and breathtaking performance which still leaves me in complete awe. Voila! It was his second such victory, the other having come for From Here to Eternity. A short summary of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. The "Common Man," an important bridging-the-scenes character in the original play, is removed from the film version, which does just fine without him. A Man for All Seasons won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, as well as seven British Film Academy awards. A Sixteenth-Century Butler! King Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife, and seeks the approval of the aristocracy. In the beginning of the play, the characters the Common Man plays seem to be insightful and clever members of the lower class, who astutely critique and satirize the nobility. Yet within his clear moral imperative, he does calibrate. Key sounds punctuate three pregnant pauses with explosive impact. A Man for All Seasons is the story of a man who knows who he is. ... More refuses to relent. A man embodying the struggle of keeping one's conscience in the face of power. A Man for All Seasons, a play written by Robert Bolt, retells the historic events surrounding Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor of England who remained silent regarding Henry VIII's divorce.Because More would not take an oath which essentially endorsed the king's separation from the church in Rome, the Chancellor was imprisoned, tried, and eventually executed.