Working Girl (1988)
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Working Girl Cast
 

On-Screen Couples
Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford Melanie Griffith (as Tess McGill) with Harrison Ford (as Jack Trainer)

 

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Awards
1990: Grammy Awards of 1990 for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television - "Let the River Run" (Composing and arranging) Grammy Awards [1989] (Won/Nominated: Won)
1989: Academy Award for Best Song - "Let the River Run" Academy Awards [1989] (Won/Nominated: Won)
1989: Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - "Let the River Run" Golden Globes [1989] (Won/Nominated: Won)
1989: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (Sigourney Weaver) Golden Globes [1989] (Won/Nominated: Won)
1989: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Melanie Griffith) Golden Globes [1989] (Won/Nominated: Won)
1989: Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Golden Globes [1989] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Plot Summary
Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is an intelligent, working-class secretary, at a firm called Petty Marsh, who has recently earned a bachelor`s degree in Business by attending college at night. Her goal is to move out of the secretarial pool and into a... (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Girl)
 

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Awards
Working Girl (1988) was nominated for the following awards:

Academy Awards

1.
Oscar
1989
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated  
2.
Oscar
1989
Best Director
Nominated  
3.
Oscar
1989
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated  
4.
Oscar
1989
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated  

BAFTA Awards

5.
BAFTA Film Award
1990
Best Actress
Nominated  
6.
BAFTA Film Award
1990
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated  

Golden Globes

7.
Golden Globe
1989
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Won  
8.
Golden Globe
1989
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Won  
9.
Golden Globe
1989
Best Director - Motion Picture
Nominated  

Directors Guild of America, USA

10.
DGA Award
1989
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Nominated  

American Comedy Awards, USA

11.
American Comedy Award
1989
Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Won  
 

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  • In her review for the Washington Post, Rita Kempley described Melanie Griffith as "luminous as Marilyn Monroe, as adorable as one of Disney`s singing mice. She clearly has the stuff of a megastar, and the movie glows from her".
    Actors and Acting (Rita Kempley)
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  • Working Girl was released on December 23, 1988 in 1,051 theaters and grossed USD $4.7 million on its opening weekend. It went on to make $63.8 million in North America and $39.2 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $103 million.[1]
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Girl)
  • The movie is David Duchovny`s screen debut. He appears in two scenes; once at Tess`s birthday party at her apartment and later at Cyn`s engagement party. This is also Oliver Platt`s first screen role.
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Girl)
  • Michelle Pfeiffer and Meryl Streep were considered for the roles of Tess McGill and Katharine Parker respectively. Studio executives seriously considered Shelley Long for the role of Tess McGill because of her high TV Q rating at the time. Lorraine Bracco revealed in her memoir, On the Couch (2007) that she was devastated when director Mike Nichols didn`t offer her the title role after she thought she gave a great audition.
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Girl)
  • When Tess goes to meet Katharine Parker on the helipad, she is carrying a stuffed gorilla, a direct reference to the film Gorillas in the Mist, a film that Sigourney Weaver had finished a few months earlier.
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Girl)
  • Kevin Spacey was brought in as a last-minute replacement for another actor in the part of Bob Speck.
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Girl)
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