A film won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup and Best Music, Original Song (Stephen Sondheim) for "Sooner or Later". It was besides nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Al Pacino), Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Sound.

A independent plot line of the film is Dick Tracy's efforts to bring down Large Son Caprice's (Pacino) gangster empire. The secondary plot line follows Tracy's romances using Tess Trueheart (Headly) & Breathless Mahoney (Madonna).

the film has a super distinctive look due to its utilise of single primary colors. This was done to produce the "cartoon" look. A cinematography by Vittorio Storaro gives the film the bewitching atmosphere, assisted by Danny Elfman's score.

Although doing with modesty easily at a pack professional & spawning a big marketing & marketing campaign, this film has non universally received the attention that numbers of sense it should exist as given.