And the Academy Award Goes to: In the Heat of the Night

Paul Gambaccini meets renowned director Norman Jewison to discuss his 1967 movie In the Heat of the Night, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1968. The film explores the uneasy collaboration of a black Philadelphia homicide detective and the white sheriff of a small Mississippi town, and was released at the height of the Civil Rights movement, mere months before the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jewison reveals why the story resonated with an America riven by racial tension. With contributions by producer Walter Mirisch and cinematographer Haskell Wexler