ON THIS DATE (18 YEARS AGO) April 5, 1996 – The film “Fargo” is released to a wide national audience and is immediately ranked #7 that weekend, grossing $2.5M. Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H. Macy as a car salesman who hires two criminals to kidnap his wife, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare as the criminals, and Harve Presnell as the salesmans father-in-law. The film earned seven Academy Award nominations, winning two for Best Original Screenplay for the Coens and Best Actress in a Leading Role for McDormand. It also won the BAFTA Award and the Award for Best Director for Joel Coen at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Fargo was met with universal critical acclaim. Film critic Roger Ebert named Fargo his fourth favorite film of the 1990s (he also named it best of 1996). In his original review, Ebert called it one of the best films Ive ever seen and explained that films like Fargo are why I love the movies. The film was ranked number 84 on the American Film Institutes 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1998 (although it was removed from the 2007 version) and number 93 on its 100 Years...100 Laughs list. The character Marge Gunderson was ranked number 33 on AFIs 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In 2006 it was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Fargo
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