Contact

Summary

Contact is a film^[1]. Contact ranks in the top 0.62% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,663 views/month, #587 of 94,065).^[2]

Key Facts

• Contact received the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation^[3].
• Contact's image is recorded as Contact uniforms.jpg^[4].
• Contact's instance of is recorded as film^[5].
• Contact's director is recorded as Robert Zemeckis^[6].
• Contact's screenwriter is recorded as James V. Hart^[7].
• Contact's screenwriter is recorded as Michael Goldenberg^[8].
• Contact's screenwriter is recorded as Carl Sagan^[9].
• Contact's screenwriter is recorded as Ann Druyan^[10].
• Contact's composer is recorded as Alan Silvestri^[11].
• Contact's genre is recorded as science fiction film^[12].
• Contact's genre is recorded as drama film^[13].
• Contact's genre is recorded as film based on a novel^[14].
• Contact's based on is recorded as Contact^[15].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Jodie Foster^[16].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Matthew McConaughey^[17].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as James Woods^[18].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Tom Skerritt^[19].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as William Fichtner^[20].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as John Hurt^[21].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Angela Bassett^[22].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as David Morse^[23].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Jena Malone^[24].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Rob Lowe^[25].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Alex Veadov^[26].
• Contact's cast member is recorded as Jake Busey^[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Contact's performer is recorded as Alan Silvestri^[28]. Producers include Steve Starkey^[29] and Q6708571^[30]. Contact's director is recorded as Robert Zemeckis^[6]. Screenwriters include James V. Hart^[7], Michael Goldenberg^[8], Carl Sagan^[9], and Ann Druyan^[10]. Cast members include Jodie Foster^[16], Matthew McConaughey^[17], James Woods^[18], Tom Skerritt^[19], William Fichtner^[20], and John Hurt^[21].

Publication

Publication dates include +1997-07-11T00:00:00Z^[31], +1997-11-07T00:00:00Z^[32], and +1997-10-09T00:00:00Z^[33]. Contact's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English^[34]. Genres include science fiction film^[12], drama film^[13], and film based on a novel^[14].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include extraterrestrial life^[35], first contact fiction^[36], relationship between religion and science^[37], science^[38], and religion^[39].

Reception

Contact received the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation^[3]. Reviews include 6.9/10^[40], 62/100^[41], and 69%^[42].

Why It Matters

Contact ranks in the top 0.62% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,663 views/month, #587 of 94,065).^[2] Contact has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[43] Contact is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[44]

FAQs

What awards did Contact receive?

Honors received include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation^[3].