Who played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the film "Amadeus"?

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Who played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the film "Amadeus"? Tom Hulce played him.

Hulce portrayed Mozart in Miloš Forman’s 1984 film, adapted from Peter Shaffer’s stage play. The story is framed through the recollections of Antonio Salieri, played by F. Murray Abraham, who becomes consumed by jealousy of Mozart’s extraordinary musical talent.

The film presents Mozart as both a musical genius and an immature, mischievous young man. That characterization is memorable, but it is also dramatized: "Amadeus" is not a literal biography, and historians have found little evidence for a personal rivalry between Mozart and Salieri on the scale shown in the film.

Hulce received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, while Abraham won Best Actor for Salieri. The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and helped make Mozart’s music accessible to a much wider popular audience.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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