‘The Exorcist’ director William Friedkin dies at 87

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The Exorcist’ fame, William Friedkin has passed away at the age of 87. Chapman University Dean Stephen Galloway has confirmed that the filmmaker has died in Los Angeles.

William Friedkin won an Oscar for best director for ‘The French Connection’ in 1972. ‘The Exorcist’ also got him an Oscar nomination in 1974. It was ‘The Exorcist’ for which Friedkin is best known as he made the film, which is considered as the most horror film ever made.

‘The Exorcist’ was an adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s horror novel by the same name. It was a blockbuster movie that earned $425 million produced with a budget of $12 million. It was the first horror movie to be nominated for an Oscar award. The movie led to a television series and franchise.

William Friedkin won the Oscar award for best feature film in 1972 for the ‘French Connection’. It was also the first hit movie of the director and his first commercially successful venture. The film was a crime thriller, and it is considered one of the greatest films ever made.

Great film directors like David Fincher, Steven Spielberg and Akira Kurosawa have admitted that they have been influenced by the ‘French Connection’ in one way or the other.

The action thriller ‘Sorcerer’ was a commercial disappointment, but it is said to be the favorite of the director. William Freidkin has said he failed to understand why the adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel ‘The Wages of Fear’ failed.

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