10 original press kit publicity photos for the 1981 Paramount Pictures film, with Paramount Pictures publicity caption on detached piece of paper for each photo. REDS, produced and directed by Warren Beatty, written by Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths (loosely based on the lives of American radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant before and during the Russian Revolution), and starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, and M. Emmet Walsh. Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as activist Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as playwright Eugene O'Neill. Beatty was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to Chariots of Fire. Beatty, Keaton, Nicholson and Stapleton were nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, with Stapleton winning her category. In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed AFI's 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the film community. Reds came in ninth in the epic genre.