43rd Academy Awards
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- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Franklin J. Schaffner
Winner - Best Actor for George C. Scott (refused)
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North
Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Jerry Goldsmith
Winner - Best Sound Mixing for Douglas O. Williams and Don J. Bassman
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Fred J. Koenekamp
Winner - Best Film Editing for Hugh S. Fowler
Nominated - Best Visual Effects for Alex Weldon - DirectorGeorge SeatonHenry HathawayStarsBurt LancasterDean MartinGeorge KennedyA bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.Nominated - Best Picture
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Helen Hayes
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Maureen Stapleton
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for George Seaton
Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Alfred Newman
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Ronald Pierce and David H. Moriarty
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Edith Head
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ernest Laszlo
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Stuart Gilmore - DirectorBob RafelsonStarsJack NicholsonKaren BlackBilly Green BushA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Jack Nicholson
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Karen Black
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Bob Rafelson - DirectorArthur HillerStarsAli MacGrawRyan O'NealJohn MarleyA boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Arthur Hiller
Nominated - Best Actor for Ryan O'Neal
Nominated - Best Actress for Ali MacGraw
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for John Marley
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Erich Segal
Winner - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Francis Lai - DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Robert Altman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Sally Kellerman
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ring Lardner Jr.
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Danford B. Greene - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.Nominated - Best Director for Federico Fellini
- DirectorKen RussellStarsAlan BatesOliver ReedGlenda JacksonTwo best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.Nominated - Best Director for Ken Russell
Winner - Best Actress for Glenda Jackson
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Larry Kramer
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Billy Williams - DirectorGilbert CatesStarsMelvyn DouglasGene HackmanDorothy StickneyA man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.Nominated - Best Actor for Melvyn Douglas
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Woodruff Anderson - DirectorMartin RittStarsJames Earl JonesJane AlexanderLou GilbertA Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.Nominated - Best Actor for James Earl Jones
Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Alexander - DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert MitchumTrevor HowardJohn MillsSet in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.Nominated - Best Actress for Sarah Miles
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for John Mills
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Gordon K. McCallum and John Bramall
Winner - Best Cinematography for Freddie Young - DirectorFrank PerryStarsRichard BenjaminFrank LangellaCarrie SnodgressA housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.Nominated - Best Actress for Carrie Snodgress
- DirectorCy HowardStarsGig YoungBea ArthurBonnie BedeliaMike and Susan's wedding is overshadowed by family drama, including Mike's brother's divorce, Susan's father's affair, her sister's marital troubles, and Mike's friend pursuing the maid of honor.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Richard S. Castellano
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman
Winner - Best Original Song for "For All We Know" - DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Chief Dan George
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsBeau BridgesLee GrantDiana SandsAt the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind. He's grown fond of the black tenants and particularly of Fanny (Diana Sands), the wife of a black radical; he's maybe fallen in love with Lanie (Marki Bey), a mixed race girl; he's lost interest in redecorating his home. Joyce (Lee Grant), his mother has not relinquished this interest and in one of the film's most hilarious sequences gives her MasterCharge card to Marge (Pearl Bailey), a black tenant and appoints her decorator.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Lee Grant
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsPeter BoyleDennis PatrickSusan SarandonTwo men--wealthy conservative Bill and far-right factory worker Joe--form a dangerous bond after Bill confesses to Joe about murdering his daughter's drug-dealer boyfriend.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Norman Wexler
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianMarie-Christine BarraultA devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Eric Rohmer
- DirectorMichael WadleighStarsJoan BaezRichie HavensRoger DaltreyOscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.Winner - Best Documentary Picture
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Dan Wallin and L. A. Johnson
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker - DirectorHarald ReinlStarsHeinz-Detlev BockKlaus KindlerChristian MarschallBased on Erich Von Daniken's book purporting to prove that throughout history aliens have visited earth.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorWilliam CaytonStarsBrock PetersKevin KennedyTommy BurnsA documentary on the first African-American boxer to ever become world heavyweight champion. Released on the same year as "The Great White Hope" and also Oscar nominated like that film, this project uses of stills, archive footage and his own words narrated by actor Brock Peters to present Johnson's life, trajectory and of course, 'the fight of the century' against James Jeffries.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorSidney LumetJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsHarry BelafonteRuby DeeBen GazzaraFollows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDavid H. VowellStarsRod McKuenThe imperiled relationship between man and nature.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorJoseph StrickStarsRichard HammerInterviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they discuss the orders that were issued leading up to the attack, their expectations of what they would find there, and the subsequent massacre of the inhabitants and destruction of the village, as well as possible motivations for the killings and rapes which took place.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- StarsLorne GreeneWater pollution in the United States: an early warning produced for the just established federal Environmental Protection Administration. Narrated by "Bonanza" series TV star Lorne Greene. "The most beautiful film on ugliness ever made." -VarietyNominated - Best Documentary Short
- The film traces the progress of four autistic children over one year in a behavioral modification program conducted by psychologist Ivar Lovaas.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorPatrick CareyThis non-narrated documentary short focuses on the songs and natural sounds of birds, animals, and the various types of landscapes in Ireland.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorRobert MénégozNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJames R. RokosStarsJohnny CrawfordKristin HarmonRuth HusseyThe story of a young man (Johnny Crawford) who dreams of being a cowboy in the old west, but lives in a big city in present time.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorRobert SieglerStarsSal CatenaKevin MichaelCarolyn SchultzA genie grants three wishes to a plumbing store owner and his wife. When unexpected consequences arrive, will the couple really get what they want?Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorJohn D. HancockStarsVal BisoglioCarolee CampbellCharles DurningA film about a man accepting his old age.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorLee MishkinStarsOrson WellesDiana HaleThe world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right."Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorDale CaseRobert MitchellUncle Sam has been living peacefully in the American southwest, running a gas station. But when terrorists kidnap the Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam teams up with an eagle to go rescue her.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorCameron GuessStarsScott BeachA shepherd, who wants to be left alone to pursue his career, finally faces the reality that there are no jobs for shepherds. He sends his sheep to the country and takes a correspondence course to train for a new career.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorKen HughesStarsRichard HarrisAlec GuinnessRobert MorleyPuritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Frank Cordell
Winner - Best Costume Design for Vittorio Nino Novarese - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniLyudmila SavelevaAn Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Henry Mancini
- DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonThe filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back-to-basics album, which instead drove them further apart.Winner - Best Original or Adaptation Score
- DirectorJames BridgesStarsBarbara HersheyCollin Wilcox PaxtonSam GroomAfter Tish Gray gives up her baby for adoption, she is contacted by a childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to conceive. She accepts the offer, but finds that getting to know the couple and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score
- DirectorBill MelendezStarsPeter RobbinsPamelyn FerdinGlenn GilgerCharlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals.Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJulie AndrewsRock HudsonJeremy KempSet during World War I, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Whistling Away the Dark"
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Jack Bear and Donald Brooks - DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlbert FinneyAlec GuinnessEdith EvansA musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Thank You Very Much"
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Margaret Furse
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorJerry HopperStarsRichard BooneLeslie CaronGabi AmraniA nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Till Love Touches Your Life"
- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsRobert ForsterLauren HuttonWill GeerYoung priest Greg begins having philosophical differences with the church. He meets a divorced social worker and, despite their differences, begin a sexual relationship. Greg has to decide where the church and Pamela fit into his future.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Pieces of Dreams"
- DirectorRichard FleischerKinji FukasakuToshio MasudaStarsMartin BalsamSô YamamuraJason RobardsThe story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Murray Spivack and Herman Lewis
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda, Masamichi Satoh and Charles F. Wheeler
Nominated - James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring and Inoue Chikaya
Winner - Best Visual Effects for A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott - DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsJohn Moulder-BrownDominique SandaMaximilian SchellBased on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Switzerland)
- DirectorRaoul CoutardStarsPhi LanHuynh CazenasXuan HaA small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorJacques BoigelotStarsChristian BarbierGeorges PoujoulyClaire WauthionPeace in the Fields takes place around 1925. Stanne a wealthy Flemish farmer, is alleged to have murdered his fiancée 20 years before. Although the case against him was dismissed fierce resentment still burns between his family and that of Johanna, the victim's mother. And then the farmer's son falls in love with the girl's younger sister. Johanna forbids their marriage and her old enemy starts to feel again the pangs of conscience, the need to confess the crime.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Belgium)
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveFernando ReyFranco NeroShortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
- DirectorTom GriesStarsCharlton HestonTina ChenGeraldine ChaplinCaptain Whip returns to Hawaii. He's inherited "worthless" land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.Nominated - Best Cinematography for Bill Thomas
- DirectorMartin RittStarsSean ConneryRichard HarrisSamantha EggarIn 1876 Pennsylvania, a group of Irish immigrant coal miners begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment.Nominated - Best Art Direction