Also, at the 51st Academy Awards in 1979, Christopher Walken got his first Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. These scenes helped “The Deer Hunter” win five Oscars in 1979, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cimino. Late in the film it is Nick who will kill himself while he is playing a game of Russian roulette for money in a crowded gambling club in Saigon.ĭirector Michael Cimino's Vietnam War classic 'The Deer Hunter' is now truly known for having some of the most tense Russian roulette scenes of any in a Hollywood movie. They are forced to risk their lives that the single bullet in the pistol they fire at their own head is not in the chamber. Nikanor 'Nick' Chevotarevich are forced by their Vietnamese captors to play Russian roulette. Steven Pushkov, and Christopher Walken as Cpl.

Released in 1978, “The Deer Hunter” contains harrowing scenes in which the main characters, American POWs played by Robert DeNiro as SSG Michael 'Mike' Vronsky, Jon Savage as Cpl.

The deer hunter cast