Awards
A film won a 1970 ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival. It was nominated for 5 Academy Awards and won an Oscar for its screenplay. It was deemed "culturally significant" per Library of Congress and selected in 1996 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Within 1998, a film was recognized per American Film Institute (AFI) as one of the 100 greatest American films; two years later, AFI recognized it as one of the 10 funniest American films.

Unique touch
MASH, unlike numerous war films, has an anti-war message, but delivers it using a weak touch across moderate lawlessness, eccentric conversation, & the ennui, stress, & rancor of the drafted physicians. A film famously juxtaposes gory operating room procedures using absurdist & typically silly humor; from time to time these 2 elements co-survive inside a equivalent shot. A plot is episodic, which final result within many considerable changes in the film's tone. In that way, too when others mentioned above, these are said to become similar to the book Catch-22. MASH is marked by Altman's trademark healthy editing style, where to each one scene contains many co-occurrent or even overlapping conversations, besides when his unusual have of zoom.

Criticism
A select few of the film's critics disliked the restricts in war mass murder in favour of campy being, & likewise for the certain cauterize attitude, notably in the coarse of action of the characters Major Burns (Duvall) & Major O'Houlihan (Kellerman).

Cast
Donald Sutherland as Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Elliott Gould as Capt. John Francis Xavier "Trapper John" McIntyre Tom Skerritt as Capt. Augustus Bedford "Duke" Forrest Sally Kellerman as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan Robert Duvall as Major Frank Burns Roger Bowen as Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake René Auberjonois as Father John Patrick "Dago Red" Mulcahy John Schuck as Capt. Walter Kosciusko "Painless" Waldowski, DDS David Arkin as SSgt. Vollmer/PA Announcer Jo Ann Pflug as Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider Gary Burghoff as Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly Fred Williamson as Capt. Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones Michael Murphy as Capt. Ezekiel Bradbury "Me Lay" Marston IV

Trivia
In a director's comment on the DVD release of this film, Altman claims that this was a 1st picture show to dare utilise the word "fuck" (spoken during a football touching a prevent of the film). This is mayhap untrue, notwithstanding, when a picture show ''I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname and Ulysses (both released in 1967) each claim to be the first to utter the famous profanity.

MASH'' features a song "Suicide is Painless", with music by Johnny Mandel and lyrics by Mike Altman, the director's boy. A television show used an instrumental version as its theme tune.

MASH was a original title of the 1953 film Battle Circus starring Humphrey Bogart, the film too astir life within a MASH unit.

When you took principal photography, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould spent a third of their instance trying to make their way Robert Altman fired.

Inside two or three shots of the "speaker" when asleep, a moon is visible in the background. On the equivalent nighttime once these scenes were shot, Our contries astronauts landed on the moon.