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ET 'better than my Gandhi film'
Attenborough: 'ET should have won'
Steven Spielberg film ET: The Extra-Terrestrial was a better film than Gandhi and should have won more Oscars, its director Richard Attenborough says.
His biopic about Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi won eight awards, including best director and picture, at 1983's Oscars compared with ET's four.
Lord Attenborough told BBC Radio Five Live Gandhi was a wonderful story "because it's about a wonderful man".
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ET was "extraordinary" as it "depended on the concept of cinema," he added.
In an interview with presenter Simon Mayo, Lord Attenborough said ET was "an infinitely more creative and fundamental piece of cinema" than Gandhi.
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He added: "[Business partner] Diana and I went to see ET in Los Angeles shortly before all the awards and we used language, when we came out, to the extent of saying 'we have no chance - ET should and will walk away with it'."
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