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He looks up at Salieri not with an expression of one upmanship, but pure joy, fully expecting Salieri to appreciate the new sound that has been created. It all comes together in a cruel scene in which Mozart, on the spot, impulsively improves a piece of music Salieri has composed in his honor. Hulce gets to have the most fun, but also layers the laughs with a tender understanding that as frivolous as he may seem, Mozart loves music too.

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As Salieri, Abraham orchestrates a series of pauses, snarls, and sighs-as if he were a conductor-offering a portrait of a man whose greatest curse is an ear that recognizes exactly how heavenly MozartвЂ™s music is. Hulce and Abraham make for a perfect yin and yang (both were nominated for Best Actor Abraham won). There he tells a priest (Richard Frank) about the source of his despair: anger that God chose to give otherworldly musical talent not to himself, but to the impetuous, irresponsible, and irreverent Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce, giggling about in pink wigs, less courtly composer than New Wave punk-or Puck). We first meet Salieri in old age, en route to a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. What follows is as much reverential drama as messy farce. Murray Abraham), court composer in 1770s Vienna, and pause before entering to help themselves to a taste, leaving dollops of whipped cream on their noses. Two servants bearing desserts approach the door of Antonio Salieri (F. Despite its Oscar haul-11 nominations and eight wins, including Best Picture-itвЂ™s clear from the very start that Amadeus is not your usual, stuffy, historical biopic.

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