Champion

Champion is a 1949 American drama film noir directed by Mark Robson and produced by Stanley Kramer. The screenplay was written by Carl Foreman, with cinematography by Franz Planer and music by Dimitri Tiomkin. The film stars Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, and Ruth Roman. It focuses on the main subject of boxing and includes keywords such as sibling relationship, sports, brother, boxer, and training.

The movie was released in the United States with a runtime of 99 minutes. It was distributed by United Artists and later made available via video on demand through Netflix. The production cost was 595,000 dollars, with a budget of 600,000 dollars, resulting in revenue of 2,500,000 dollars. Champion is presented in black-and-white and is in the English language.

Champion received several Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Film Editing, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. The film holds a review score of 7.8 out of 10 and 94 percent, alongside an IMDb rating of 7.3 and a TMDb vote average of 6.685.