American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations

Select Academy Awards

1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 9 Select Academy Awards ■■■■■■■■■■ 1970 Best Picture: Patton, Twentieth Century Fox Best Actor: George C. Scott in Patton, Twentieth Century Fox Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in Women in Love, United Artists Best Supporting Actor: John Mills in Ryan’s Daughter, MGM Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes in Airport, Universal Best Director: Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton, Twentieth Century Fox Best Adapted Screenplay: Ring Lardner Jr., M*A*S*H, Twentieth Century Fox Best Original Story and Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, Patton, Twentieth Century Fox Best Cinematography: Freddie Young, Ryan’s Daughter, MGM Best Film Editing: Hugh S. Fowler, Patton, Twentieth Century Fox Best Original Score: Francis Lai, Love Story, Paramount Best Original Song Score: The Beatles, Let It Be, United Artists ■■■■■■■■■■ 1971 Best Picture: The French Connection, Twentieth Century Fox Best Actor: Gene Hackman in The French Connection, Twentieth Century Fox Best Actress: Jane Fonda in Klute, Warner Bros. Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show, Columbia Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show, Columbia Best Director: William Friedkin, The French Connection, Twentieth Century Fox Best Adapted Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman, The French Connection, Twentieth Century Fox Best Original Story and Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital, United Artists Best Cinematography: Oswald Morris, Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Production Best Film Editing: Gerald B. Greenberg, The French Connection, Twentieth Century Fox Best Original Score: Michel Legrand, Summer of ’42, Warner Bros. Best Adaptation Score: John Williams, Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Production 251 ■■■■■■■■■■ 1972 Best Picture: The Godfather, Paramount Best Actor: Marlon Brando in The Godfather, Paramount Best Actress: Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, MGM Best Supporting Actor: Joel Grey in Cabaret, MGM Best Supporting Actress: Eileen Heckart in Butterflies Are Free, Frankovich Productions Best Director: Bob Fosse, Cabaret, MGM Best Adapted Screenplay: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Paramount Best Original Story and Screenplay: Jeremy Larner, The Candidate, Warner Bros. Best Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth, Cabaret, MGM Best Film Editing: David Bretherton, Cabaret, MGM Best Original Score: Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell, Limelight, Celebrated Productions (distributed by United Artists in 1952, but did not play in Los Angeles until 1972) Best Adaptation Score: Ralph Burns, Cabaret, MGM ■■■■■■■■■■ 1973 Best Picture: The Sting, Universal Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger, Paramount Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class, Avco Embassy Pictures Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman in The Paper Chase, Twentieth Century Fox Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon, Paramount Best Director: George Roy Hill, The Sting, Universal Best Adapted Screenplay: William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, Warner Bros. Best Original Story and Screenplay: David S. Ward, The Sting, Universal Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist, Cries and Whispers, Cinematograph AB Best Film Editing: William Reynolds, The Sting, Universal Best Original Score: Marvin Hamlisch, The Way We Were, Columbia Best Adaptation Score: Marvin Hamlisch, The Sting, Universal ■■■■■■■■■■ 1974 Best Picture: The Godfather: Part II, Paramount Best Actor: Art Carney in Harry and Tonto, Twentieth Century Fox 252 SELECT ACADEMY AWARDS, 1970–1979 Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Warner Bros. Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro in The Godfather: Part II, Paramount Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express, EMI Films Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II, Paramount Best Original Screenplay: Robert Towne, Chinatown. Paramount Best Adapted Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, The Godfather: Part II, Paramount Best Cinematography: Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc, The Towering Inferno, Twentieth Century Fox Best Film Editing: Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress, The Towering Inferno, Twentieth Century Fox Best Original Score: Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola, The Godfather: Part II, Paramount Best Adaptation Score: Nelson Riddle, The Great Gatsby, Newdone Productions ■■■■■■■■■■ 1975 Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, United Artists Best Actor: Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, United Artists Best Actress: Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, United Artists Best Supporting Actor: George Burns in The Sunshine Boys, MGM Best Supporting Actress: Lee Grant in Shampoo, Columbia Best Director: Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, United Artists Best Original Screenplay: Frank Pierson, Dog Day Afternoon, Warner Bros. Best Adapted Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, United Artists Best Cinematography: John Alcott, Barry Lyndon, Warner...