Winners indicated (*). I have a lot left to watch, like 1900, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Heart of Glass, The Tenant, Cousin, Cousine, Obsession, Harlan County, USA, Small Change, King Kong, The Missouri Breaks, In the Realm of the Senses, The Front, Through the Looking Glass, Stay Hungry, The Inheritance, Je T'aime Moi Non Plus, Silent Movie, Voyage of the Damned, The Innocent, Assault on Precinct 13, Murder by Death, The Shootist, Black and White in Color, The Marquise of O, The Last Tycoon, Bugsy Malone, Kings of the Road, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, A Matter of Time, Chinese Roulette, The Memory of Justice, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Silver Streak, The Bad News Bears, and Next Stop, Greenwich Village.
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| All the President's Men |
BEST PICTURE:
All the President's Men*
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Network
Rocky
Taxi Driver
BEST DIRECTOR:
Ingmar Bergman, Face to Face
John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Sidney Lumet, Network
Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men*
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
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| Taxi Driver |
BEST ACTOR:
Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver*
Peter Finch, Network
Ben Gazzara, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Giancarlo Giannini, Seven Beauties
William Holden, Network
BEST ACTRESS:
Faye Dunaway, Network
Audrey Hepburn, Robin and Marian
Sissy Spacek, Carrie
Ana Torrent, Cría Cuervos
Liv Ullmann, Face to Face*
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| Face to Face |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Hal Holbrook, All the President's Men
Erland Josephson, Face to Face
Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man
Jason Robards, All the President's Men*
Roy Scheider, Marathon Man
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jane Alexander, All the President's Men
Geraldine Chaplin, Cría Cuervos
Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver*
Piper Laurie, Carrie
Beatrice Straight, Network
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| Network |
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
All the President's Men*
Bound for Glory
Carrie
Marathon Man
The Outlaw Josey Wales
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Face to Face
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Network*
Rocky
Taxi Driver
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| The Killing of a Chinese Bookie |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Carrie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Taxi Driver*
BEST FILM EDITING:
All the President's Men*
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Network
Rocky
Taxi Driver
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| Rocky |
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Carrie
Family Plot
The Omen
Rocky
Taxi Driver*
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Ave Satani", The Omen
"Gonna Fly Now", Rocky
"I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me", Carrie
"Rainy Fields of Frost and Magic", The Killing of a Chinese Bookie*
"Take Me Back", Rocky
Additional Categories
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| Marathon Man |
BEST ART DIRECTION:
All the President's Men*
Bound for Glory
Family Plot
Fellini's Casanova
Logan's Run
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Bound for Glory
Face to Face
Family Plot
Fellini's Casanova*
Seven Beauties
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| Carrie |
BEST MAKEUP:
Carrie
Fellini's Casanova*
The Outlaw Josey Wales
BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
All the President's Men*
Carrie
Logan's Run
Rocky
Taxi Driver
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Carrie
Logan's Run*
The Omen
Hahah, this year is one hell of a blind spot for me - haven't seen ANY of these movies.
ReplyDeleteYou've got some great films to see then. :)
DeleteI'm sure I do!
DeleteI passed the Sunshine Award over to you, btw: http://limereviews.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-sunshine-award.html
Thanks!
DeleteI kind of hate Rocky (lol, I've been planning a Top Ten AGAINST the film for a while...maybe I should wrap that up) but I love your acting wins! I need to see more from this year though. Right now I have a Taxi Driver sweep. Robert Duvall is my winner in supporting for Network...such a quiet yet unnerving performance.
ReplyDeleteHaha, do it! Rocky's my #5, so it could lose ground when I'm more caught up. Can't argue with a Taxi Driver sweep. Duvall is my #6. He was in until I remembered Josephson in Face to Face.
DeleteAaaargh! I knew you'd have a film I've been meaning to see on your ballot. I really should watch 'All the President's Men' already. Fun post as always Josh!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ruth! Haha, I hate it when that happens. Hope you get to see All the President's Men soon - it's one of my all-time favorites.
DeleteArguably my favorite year of cinema ever. Love '76. Really dug your choices, glad Taxi Driver could snag some!
ReplyDeleteIt's a great year, no doubt. And I've got so much to see! Knew you'd dig the Taxi Driver love. :)
DeleteTwo of the most acclaimed movies of this year are ones I have little affection for. Network is a competently made film with an ugly, if truthful outlook, but I can't say I like it much. The other is Taxi Driver, a movie I actively hate although I agree that De Niro and Foster are phenomenal. But the year also produced two of my favorite films, All the President's Men and Marathon Man. I've yet to see Face to Face.
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All the President's Men-Winner
Assault on Precinct 13
Marathon Man
1900
The Seven Percent Solution
Our winners are the same! I understand how Rocky won with it's underdog champion story both before and behind the camera but I don't think it was deserving. Assault, 1900 & 7% are all special in their ways but as I said the other two are favorites. Marathon Man is an incredibly tense thriller with top flight performances across the board but in its unique way so is President's Men but with a richer canvas, I can watch it endlessly and notice different details each time.
Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci-1900
John Carpenter-Assault on Precinct 13
Alan J. Pakula-All the President's Men-Winner
Herbert Ross-The Seven Percent Solution
John Schlesinger-Marathon Man
Again we match, I think the greatest strength of Pakula's direction in this film is that it doesn't feel like there is too much of it. Obviously everything is completely thought out but the whole film feels organic, a very you are there and this is just happening vibe.
Actor:
Robert De Niro-Taxi Driver
Dustin Hoffman-Marathon Man
Robert Redford-All the President's Men
John Wayne-The Shootist-Winner
Nicol Williamson-The Seven Percent Solution
It's wonderful that the great Finch was finally awarded an Oscar, though a shame he wasn't around to enjoy it, but while his big showy role was textbook Oscar bait I think he's been better in many other films.
Redford and Hoffman make a great team in President's Men but Hoffman's commitment to Marathon Man and his level of escalating intensity made me choose that performance over his precise but subdued work in the former film. De Niro's Travis Bickle is iconic, he performs it expertly during this most fruitful part of his career and Williamson's drug addled Sherlock is a template that changed the detective from his Basil Rathbone competence to the edgier more complex version we have today. I went with Wayne's swan song though, he's bone deep weary and there seems to be an extra pathos to his work, probably aided by the knowledge of his terminal diagnosis. I wasn't always the biggest fan of his work but he's very moving in this.
Actress:
Sonia Braga-Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Geraldine Chaplin-Welcome to L.A.
Faye Dunaway-Network
Barbara Harris-Freaky Friday
Sissy Spacek-Carrie-Winner
I'm glad Faye won an Oscar before her career collapsed but to me this is nowhere near her best work, she's good but not at the Chinatown/Bonnie & Clyde level. Sonia's fabulous in Dona Flor, Geraldine the best part of the rocky L.A. and Barbara Harris brilliantly individual in Friday. I was tempted to include Jodie Foster for the same film but she's in my supporting for Taxi Driver. I'm not a horror fan, although Carrie could be considered a suspense film with supernatural elements rather than horror, but Sissy Spacek raises her film to another level with her incredible performance, she's my easy winner.
I'm behind on this year, but so glad to see All the President's Men get those wins. That's one of my all-time favorite films. Marathon Man just missed my lineup. It was in until I saw The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. I really wanted to include Hoffman and Redford in Best Actor, but they just missed. Love that you give Spacek the win for Carrie as well.
DeleteSupporting Actor:
ReplyDeleteHal Holbrook-All the President's Men-Winner
Laurence Olivier-Marathon Man
Richard Pryor-Silver Streak
Jason Robards, Jr.-All the President's Men
Roy Scheider-Marathon Man
Pryor is his own entertainment center in the funny Silver Streak and both Marathon men make more out of their somewhat stock characters than was on the page, particularly Olivier, but both Robards and Holbrook managed to standout from the phenomenal ensemble of President's Men. Robards won and he's deserving but I've always favored Holbrook's shadowy Deep Throat slightly more and always found it strange that he was ignored come nomination time.
Supporting Actress:
Jane Alexander-All the President's Men
Jodie Foster-Taxi Driver
Rita Moreno-The Ritz-Winner
Alexis Smith-The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Billie Whitelaw-The Omen
I've always had a soft spot for the undervalued Alexis Smith and her diamond hard bitch in Little Girl is another sharp characterization in her gallery. Again Alexander stood out from that remarkable cast in President's Men and Whitelaw's malevolent Mrs. Baylock is right in tune with the eerie Omen. Foster certainly shed any of her child star trappings as Taxi Driver's Iris, she should have won out of the nominated actresses that year but I'm handing this to the comic volcano that is Rita Moreno in The Ritz. From the moment she blows onto the screen as the hopelessly untalented Googie Gomez nobody else stands a chance, you can't take your eyes off her.
Holbrook is a great choice, and I must see Moreno's performance. I've never even heard of The Ritz, so I'll have to check it out.
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