The editing of '' The Player '' by Geraldine Peroni was honored by a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing . In 2004 , Tony Sloman wrote an appreciation of the film 's editing : On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 98 % based on 61 reviews , with an average rating of 8.8 / 10 . The site 's critical consensus reads , " Bitingly cynical without succumbing to bitterness , '' The Player '' is one of the all-time great Hollywood satires -- and an ensemble-driven highlight of the Altman oeuvre . " On Metacritic , the film has a score of 86 out of 100 , based on 20 critics , indicating " universal acclaim . " Roger Ebert gave the film a full four stars out of four and called it " a smart movie , and a funny one . It is also absolutely of its time . After the savings and loan scandals , after Michael Milken , after junk bonds and stolen pension funds , here is a movie that uses Hollywood as a metaphor for the avarice of the 1980s . It is the movie ' The Bonfire of the Vanities ' wanted to be . " Gene Siskel also gave the film a perfect four-star grade and wrote , " If you knew nothing and cared nothing about the movie business , you can still appreciate ' The Player ' as a ripping good thriller , too . " Vincent Canby of '' The New York Times '' wrote , " Robert Altman has not really been away . Yet his new Hollywood satire titled ' The Player ' is so entertaining , so flip and so genially irreverent that it seems to announce the return of the great gregarious film maker whose ' Nashville ' remains one of the classics of the 1970 's . Todd McCarthy of '' Variety '' wrote , " Mercilessly satiric yet good-natured , this enormously entertaining slam dunk represents a remarkable American come-back for eternal maverick Robert Altman . " Terrence Rafferty of '' The New Yorker '' called it " a brilliant dark comedy about the death of American filmmaking , " adding , " In this picture Altman is doing one of his specialties : exploring an odd American subculture — revealing its distinctive textures and explicating the peculiar principles of social intercourse which keep it functioning . But when his idiosyncratic style of anthropological realism is applied to the tight community of Hollywood ' players ' it has an almost hallucinatory effect . " Peter Rainer of the '' Los Angeles Times '' wrote that " Altman has made a movie that 's supremely deft and pleasurable . As if to taunt his detractors , he even ' tells a story ' this time , and he does a better job of it than the hacks who have been getting work when he could n't . " Altman won a number of European best-director awards ( the BAFTA Award , Best Director at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival ) and he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Director ( the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical ) . Tolkin was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay , and he received an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay . Geraldine Peroni 's editing was nominated for both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award . Tim Robbins also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Comedy or Musical and Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival
1992 Cannes Film Festival
1992 Cannes Film Festival
The Player (film)