after 24 weeks on March 26,
2015. Over this time the film
grossed $33 million, against a
production budget of $3.3
million.
Whiplash premiered in
competition in the US
Dramatic Category at the 2014
Sundance Film Festival on
January 16, 2014, as the
DHEEPAN
festival's opening film Sony
Pictures Worldwide acquired
the international distribution
rights. At the87th Academy
Awards, Whiplash won Best
Film Editing, Best Sound
Mixing, and Best Supporting
Actor for Simmons, and was
nominated for Best Adapted
Screenplay and Best Picture.
Dheepan is a 2015
French drama film directed
by Jacques Audiard. The film
was partly inspired
by Montesquieu's Persian
Letters. Featuring novelist, and
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