Winners indicated (*). I still need to see films like The Emigrants, The New Land, Travels with My Aunt, The Ruling Class, Images, Jeremiah Johnson, Fellini's Roma, Un Flic, 1776, Eulogy, Fat City, Pete 'N' Tillie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Boxcar Bertha, Superfly, Pink Flamingos, The Canterbury Tales, Young Winston, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, The Hot Rock, Silent Running, Ben, The Odessa File, Bad Company, Hammersmith Is Out, Play It Again, Sam, and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
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| The Godfather |
BEST PICTURE:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Frenzy
The Godfather*
Solaris
BEST DIRECTOR:
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather*
Bob Fosse, Cabaret
Werner Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alfred Hitchcock, Frenzy
Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris
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| Aguirre, the Wrath of God |
BEST ACTOR:
Marlon Brando, The Godfather*
Michael Caine, Sleuth
Klaus Kinski, Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Laurence Olivier, Sleuth
Al Pacino, The Godfather
BEST ACTRESS:
Margit Carstensen, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Liza Minnelli, Cabaret*
Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues
Barbra Streisand, What's Up, Doc?
Cicely Tyson, Sounder
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| Cabaret |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Ned Beatty, Deliverance
Ernest Borgnine, The Poseidon Adventure
James Caan, The Godfather*
Joel Grey, Cabaret
Mickey Rooney, Pulp
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid
Natalya Bondarchuk, Solaris
Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free
Hanna Schygulla, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant*
Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure
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| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant |
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Frenzy
The Godfather*
The Heartbreak Kid
Sleuth
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God*
The Candidate
Chloe in the Afternoon
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Murmur of the Heart
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| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Cabaret
The Godfather*
The Poseidon Adventure
Solaris
BEST FILM EDITING:
Cabaret
The Candidate
Deliverance
The Godfather*
The Poseidon Adventure
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| Frenzy |
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Frenzy
The Godfather*
The Poseidon Adventure
Solaris
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Across 110th Street", Across 110th Street*
"Mein Herr", Cabaret
"Money", Cabaret
"The Morning After", The Poseidon Adventure
"The Theme from The Heartbreak Kid", The Heartbreak Kid
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| Solaris |
BEST ART DIRECTION:
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Cabaret
The Godfather
The Poseidon Adventure
Solaris*
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Cabaret*
The Godfather
Lady Sings the Blues
Solaris
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| The Poseidon Adventure |
BEST MAKEUP:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Cabaret*
The Godfather
BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Cabaret
The Getaway
The Godfather
The Poseidon Adventure*
Solaris
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Getaway
The Poseidon Adventure*
Solaris
Can't argue with the greatness of The Godfather. Solaris is beautiful, glad you give it the win for art direction
ReplyDeleteGlad you approve, Chris. :) Those are two brilliant films.
DeleteGreat wins here buddy! Liza is a goddess in Cabaret. So glad she has a CinSpec Award!
ReplyDeleteThanks man! Liza is SO GOOD. The only performance even close to topping her is Carstensen, and it's not that close.
DeleteAs long as you went with The Godfather for Best Pic we're still cool, lol. Haven't seen Cabaret so I'm going with Diana for Best Actress.
ReplyDeleteHaha, The Godfather is way ahead of the other films on here. Diana's a good pick, but you must see Liza.
DeleteHi Josh! Kind of hard to beat The Godfather this year, isn't it? Btw I saw The Getaway a couple of years back and didn't care for it at all, sooo boring!
ReplyDeleteHi Ruth! Haha, The Godfather is a classic, but I did enjoy The Getaway. ;)
DeleteA great, great year here. And this isn't to take anything away from The Godfather (or Aguirre, or Solaris), but Deliverance would dominate this year for me. That film still haunts me.
ReplyDeleteWow, I knew you loved Deliverance, but I forgot you loved it that much. That's a great pick, though. You should do your own alternate Oscars at some point.
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ReplyDeleteDeliverance-Winner
The Godfather
The Poseidon Adventure
Sleuth
What's Up, Doc?
Poseidon is an exciting thrill ride which still manages to engage you with its cast of characters, a skill seemingly lost on modern filmmakers. Doc an almost perfect homage to the screwball comedies of yore and Sleuth a duel of words between two expert players but this was between Deliverance and The Godfather for me. I know Godfather is venerated and was revolutionary upon its release, it is an outstanding achievement but the tension filled survivalism of Deliverance has always had a greater impact on me.
Director:
Peter Bogdanovich-What's Up, Doc?
John Boorman-Deliverance-Winner
Francis Ford Coppola-The Godfather
Joseph Mankiewicz-Sleuth
Ronald Neame-The Poseidon Adventure
Boorman is a wildly variable director but when he connects to the material, Hope and Glory, Excalibur, this film and a few others, he's capable of making amazing films.
Actor:
Marlon Brando-The Godfather
Michael Caine-Sleuth
Steven McQueen-Junior Bonner
Laurence Olivier-Sleuth
Al Pacino-The Godfather-Winner
McQueen gives one of his most thoughtful performances as Junior Bonner. Olivier and Caine are so good together it would be impossible to pick one over the other as the best. It's really between Brando and Pacino. Brando's excellent but some of the power of his performance is aided by his transformative makeup whereas Pacino's is strictly through the force of his personality, gravitas and nuance. I wish he had won for this thereby sparing him from the consolation Oscar for the dreadful Scent of a Woman.
Actress:
Liza Minnelli-Cabaret
Barbra Streisand-What's Up, Doc?
Cicely Tyson-Sounder
Tuesday Weld-Play It As It Lays-Winner
Susannah York-Images
Two iconic performances, two obscure but incredibly complex ones and a celebrated one. All are great and although I'm not a big fan of the film Liza's would seem to be the leader. But while her musical numbers are awesome, to me they actually weaken her interpretation of the role. The root of the problem is she's too talented to be Sally Bowles, a second-rate talent at best playing in a lowdown dive. She's compelling but I think it's a major flaw. Streisand is the most delightful she's ever been on screen in Doc, loose, daffy and a total hoot. Cicely makes her struggles and weariness vivid in Sounder and Susannah makes the scrambled narrative of Images worth navigating. I'm handing the prize to Tuesday Weld though for making the fractured Maria Wyeth, in the hard to like Play It As It Lays, so layered. It's the sort of work rarely acknowledged but wonderful to find.
Supporting Actor:
James Caan-The Godfather
John Cazale-The Godfather-Winner
Joel Grey-Cabaret
Kenneth Mars-What's Up, Doc?
Robert Preston-Junior Bonner
Mars's over the top performance in Doc is a source of endless joy, his "I am Hugh" bit makes me laugh ever time, in a weaker year he'd be my winner. Grey gets the sleazy MC just right and Preston is perfect as the difficult Dad in Bonner. Caan got most of the attention for his flashy work as Sonny in The Godfather but I prefer Cazale's work as the hapless Fredo.
Supporting Actress:
Uta Hagen-The Other
Eileen Heckart-Butterflies Are Free
Madeline Kahn-What's Up, Doc?-Winner
Ida Lupino-Junior Bonner
Shelley Winters-The Poseidon Adventure
Uta made something from virtually nothing in The Other. Shelley does lovely things with Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure, particularly near the end and Ida Lupino is just right as the wise and weary mother in Bonner, a role that should have lead to more great work for her but was her last decent role. I hate to take Eileen's Oscar away because she was wonderful, the best thing in that dated mess however it's the one of a kind Madeline Kahn and her masterful creation of THE Eunice Burns that I think deserved the award.
I like Deliverance a lot, but it doesn't hold me like The Godfather does. Can't argue with giving the wins to Pacino and Cazale instead of Brando and Caan. There are several great performances in The Godfather. Kahn is a fun win, and it's great that Winters gets a nomination. I need to watch more of Weld's work, and I really want to see Images for York's performance.
DeleteI love Tuesday Weld, she's a wonderfully idiosyncratic actress but she's the queen of turning down projects that went on to be great successes. I don't think anyone else comes close to the number of roles she refused that were great triumphs for other actresses. She refused Bonnie & Clyde, Elaine in The Graduate, Lolita, True Grit, Norma Rae, Cactus Flower, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Rosemary's Baby, the 70's version of The Great Gatsby, Polanski's MacBeth, The Stepford Wives and The Rocky Horror Picture Show! What's amazing considering the wide range of women ultimately cast in those roles is that because of her versatility I can see her in all of them. Just for example could you see Dyan Cannon in True Grit or Kim Darby in B&C&T&A? No way but Tuesday would have made sense in both. I've read that she didn't like the limelight and actually had a keen script sense choosing to stay away from anything she felt would make her too famous, if true she certainly knew what she was doing.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's amazing. If she really turned down those roles because she didn't want to be too famous, then she really did have a good eye. And to think: she still got an Oscar nomination.
DeleteIt is surprising that she was recognized at last. Being the purposeful outsider that she was usually translates to no nomination acknowledgement at all. As seems to be the academy's standard practice though they handed her the nod for a role that didn't offer much in the way of a challenge in a year where the winner was pre-determined before a ballot had been put in a box.
ReplyDeleteOf course once Vanessa won and made that speech they might have wished they'd gone with Tuesday!!
Haha, I really need to see Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
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