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The screenplay was adapted by Oliver Stone from the book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer . Alan Parker directed.

Billy Hayes has acknowledged the inaccuracy of many of the scenes in the movie; he was in a low-security prison, and no guard was killed in order for him to escape.

Although the film is set largely in Turkey, most of the location work was done in Malta, using local actors along with some GreeksGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania and ArmeniansArmenia ( Armenian: ''Hayastan is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in th.

It won Academy Awards for Best Music, Original ScoreFrom "Rule Sixteen" of the "Special Rules for The Music Awards Original Score An original score is a substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. The years shown are the produ ( Giorgio MoroderGiorgio Moroder (born April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an innovative record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on techno and electronic music in general. Particu) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another MediumThe Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play). See also the A (Stone), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleThe Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners a (Hurt), Best DirectorThe Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wi, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.