Quote:
Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Awards don't mean everything. Could have been a slow movie year.  |
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