Awards don't mean everything. Could have been a slow movie year. ;)

I should have said something about unrealistic. ;):p

:LOL:


Eggzactly!

All kidding aside, it was a pretty damn good year for cinema in 1974:


Best Picture
Chinatown, Robert Evans, producer (Paramount)
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola, producer (Paramount)
The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola, producer; (Paramount)
Lenny, Marvin Worth, producer (United Artists)
The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen, producer (20th Century Fox)

Best Actor
Art Carney, Harry and Tonto
Albert Finney, Murder on the Orient Express
Dustin Hoffman, Lenny
Jack Nicholson, Chinatown
Al Pacino, The Godfather Part II

Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Diahann Carroll, Claudine
Faye Dunaway, Chinatown
Valerie Perrine, Lenny
Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under the Influence

Actor in a Supporting Role
Fred Astaire, The Towering Inferno
Jeff Bridges, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Robert De Niro, The Godfather Part II
Michael V. Gazzo, The Godfather Part II
Lee Strasberg, The Godfather Part II
Robert De Niro, The Godfather Part II

Actress in a Supporting Role
Ingrid Bergman, Murder on the Orient Express
Valentina Cortese, Day for Night
Madeline Kahn, Blazing Saddles
Diane Ladd, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Talia Shire, The Godfather Part II

Directing
John Cassavetes, A Woman Under the Influence
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II
Bob Fosse, Lenny
Roman Polanski, Chinatown
François Truffaut, Day for Night


Original Screenplay
Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation
Robert Getchell, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld, Harry and Tonto
Robert Towne, Chinatown
François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard and Suzanne Schiffman,
Day for Night

Screenplay Adapted From Other Material
Julian Barry, Lenny
Paul Dehn, Murder on the Orient Express
Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, The Godfather Part II
Mordecai Richler, screenplay; Lionel Chetwynd, adaptation,
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein

I just watched 300 last night. Great flick, if you don't mind all the violence.

Jet Li's Fearless was pretty good, as well.

Also watched Wild Hogs on Sunday. It was alright for a hokey, recycled jokes kind of fun movie. Definitely not a great movie, but worth a rental.

Wow, what a year for Coppola that year. Incredible.

The Towering Inferno?? WTF??

Always been a guilty pleasure flick of mine but hardly Oscar worthy. McQueen and Newman were so cool in that flick. :)

A guilty pleasure for me too. Fred Astaire was good as the con artist as well, but his best non dancing role was Julian Osborne.

The image of Philip Seymour Hoffman naked and having sex during the opening credits ruined any chance I had of enjoying the film.

You are undoubtedly not the only one.

And that's a sad fact.

harsh times was the worst movie ever

The Chronicles of Narnia and the gay prince Caspien. 7/10


DVD rentals:

The Mist 6/10

Day of the Dead 6/10

Narnia worth going to see? I thought it looked EXACTLY like the first one. Story, story, epic battle, end.

What didn't you like about the mist?

Was this the Day of the Dead that consisted of an army base and Dean Cain? I'm a zombie movie nut, but if this was the same one I'd have to give the flick like, a 2-3. It was garbage.

I didn't think it was that bad, i like zombie movies also. It kept my interest all through it.

Narnia was alright. Mainly for the kids i went. Battle scenes were good.
I caught myself nodding off a little during the dialog between the characters.

The Mist was alright. 6/10 means better then average but not great. I read the book so it kept with the storyline. The main story had them shacked up in the store 85 percent of the movie, maybe that was it.