1974 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Warner Bros; David Susskind & Audrey
Maas
BLAZING SADDLES
Warner Bros; Michael Herzberg
CHINATOWN
Paramount; Robert Evans
THE CONVERSATION
Paramount / Directors Company; Francis Ford
Coppola
THE GODFATHER PART II
Paramount; Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Fredrickson &
Fred Roos
LENNY
United Artists; Marvin Worth
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
United Artists / Palomar / Palladium; Gabriel Katzka &
Edgar J. Scherick
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Vortex; Tobe Hooper
THE TOWERING INFERNO
20th Century Fox / Warner Bros; Irwin Allen
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
20th Century Fox / Crossbow; Michael
Gruskoff
Also Considered:
AMARCORD (Franco Crustaldi); THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER
(Werner Herzog); THE FRONT PAGE (Paul Monash); HARRY & TONTO (Paul Mazursky); LACOMBE, LUCIEN (Louis Malle & Claude Nedjar); THE LONGEST YARD (Albert S. Ruddy); MURDER ON THE ORIENT
EXPRESS (John Brabourne & Richard Goodwin); THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula); THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Richard D. Zanuck & David Brown); A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (Sam
Shaw)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
James Caan as "Axel Freed" - THE GAMBLER
Art Carney as "Harry Coombes" - HARRY &
TONTO
Richard Dreyfuss as "Duddy Kravitz" - THE APPRENTICESHIP
OF DUDDY KRAVITZ
Peter Falk as "Nick Longhetti" - A WOMAN UNDER THE
INFLUENCE
Gene Hackman as "Harry Caul" - THE
CONVERSATION
Dustin Hoffman as "Lenny Bruce" - LENNY
Jack Nicholson as "J.J. Gittes" - CHINATOWN
Al Pacino as "Michael Corleone" - THE GODFATHER PART
II
Jon Voight as "Peter Miller" - THE ODESSA
FILE
Gene Wilder as "Dr. Frederick Frankenstein" - YOUNG
FRANKENSTEIN
Also Considered:
Warren Beatty (THE PARALLAX VIEW); Albert Finney (MURDER
ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS); James Earl Jones (CLAUDINE); Burt Lancaster (CONVERSATION PIECE); Steve McQueen (THE TOWERING INFERNO); Jack Lemmon (THE FRONT PAGE); Cleavon Little (BLAZING SADDLES);
Walter Matthau (THE FRONT PAGE); Paul Newman (THE TOWERING INFERNO); Burt Reynolds (THE LONGEST YARD)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Lucille Ball as "Mame Dennis" - MAME
Ellen Burstyn as "Alice Hyatt" - ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE
ANYMORE
Diahann Carroll as "Claudine Price" -
CLAUDINE
Faye Dunaway as "Evelyn Mulwray" - CHINATOWN
Mia Farrow as "Daisy Buchanan" - THE GREAT
GATSBY
Goldie Hawn as "Lou Jean Sparrow" - THE SUGARLAND
EXPRESS
Brigette Mira as "Emmi Kurowski" - FEAR EATS THE
SOUL
Valerie Perrine as "Honey Bruce" - LENNY
Gena Rowlands as "Mabel Longhetti" - A WOMAN UNDER THE
INFLUENCE
Susannah York as "Terry Steyner" - GOLD
Also Considered:
Juliet Berto (CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING); Pam Grier
(FOXY BROWN); Helen Hayes (HERBIE RIDES AGAIN); Dominique Labourier (CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING); Silvana Mangano (CONVERSATION PIECE); Mariangela Melato (SWEPT AWAY... BY AN UNUSUAL
DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST); Charlotte Rampling (THE NIGHT PORTER); Sissy
Spacek (GINGER IN THE MORNING); Cicely Tyson (THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN); Liv Ullmann (SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE)
BEST DIRECTOR
Mel Brooks - YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Francis Ford Coppola - THE CONVERSATION
Francis Ford Coppola - THE GODFATHER PART II
Federico Fellini - AMARCORD
Bob Fosse - LENNY
John Guillermin - THE TOWERING INFERNO
Tobe Hooper - THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Sam Peckinpah - BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
Roman Polanski - CHINATOWN
Martin Scorsese - ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Also Considered:
Mel Brooks (BLAZING SADDLES); John Cassavetes (A WOMAN
UNDER THE INFLUENCE); Jack Clayton (THE GREAT GATSBY); Werner Herzog (THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER); Sidney Lumet (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS); Louis Malle (LACOMBE, LUCIEN); Paul Mazursky
(HARRY & TONTO); Alan J. Pakula (THE PARALLAX VIEW); Joseph Sargent (THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE); Steven Spielberg (THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jeff Bridges as "Lightfoot" - THUNDERBOLT &
LIGHTFOOT
John Cazale as "Fredo Corleone" - THE GODFATHER PART
II
Robert DeNiro as "Vito Corleone" - THE GODFATHER PART II
Michael V. Gazzo as "Frankie Pentangeli" - THE GODFATHER
PART II
John Gielgud as "Beddoes" - MURDER ON THE ORIENT
EXPRESS
John Huston as "Noah Cross" - CHINATOWN
Austin Pendleton as "Earl Williams" - THE FRONT
PAGE
Robert Shaw as "Bernard Ryder" - THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE
TWO THREE
Lee Strasberg as "Hyman Roth" - THE GODFATHER PART
II
Sam Waterston as "Nick Carraway" - THE GREAT
GATSBY
Also Considered:
Eddie Albert (THE LONGEST YARD); Fred Astaire (THE
TOWERING INFERNO); Martin Balsam (THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE); Charles Boyer (STAVINSKY); Marty Feldman (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN); Holger Löwenadler (LACOMBE, LUCIEN); James Mason (ELEVEN
HARROWHOUSE); John Saxon (BLACK CHRISTMAS); Gene Wilder (BLAZING SADDLES); Noel Willman (THE ODESSA FILE)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Beatrice Arthur as "Vera Charles" - MAME
Ingrid Bergman as "Greta Ohlsson" - MURDER ON THE ORIENT
EXPRESS
Karen Black as "Nancy Pryor" - AIRPORT 1975
Marilyn Burns as "Sally" - THE TEXAS CHAINSAW
MASSACRE
Lelia Goldoni as "Bea" - ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE
ANYMORE
Georgina Hale as "Alma Mahler" - MAHLER
Madeliene Kahn as "Lili Von Shtupp" - BLAZING
SADDLES
Diane Ladd as "Flo Castleberry" - ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Talia Shire as "Connie Corleone" - THE GODFATHER PART
II
Marian Waldman as "Mrs. MacHenry" - BLACK
CHRISTMAS
Also Considered:
Jacqueline Bisset (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS); Karen
Black (THE GREAT GATSBY); Jennifer Jones (THE TOWERING INFERNO); Madeline Kahn (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN); Diane Keaton (THE GODFATHER PART II); Cloris Leachman (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN); Jan Miner
(LENNY); Helen Reddy (AIRPORT 1975); Susan Sarandon (THE FRONT PAGE); Sylvia Sims (THE TAMARIND SEED)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
AMARCORD
CHINATOWN
THE CONVERSATION
THE FRONT PAGE
THE GODFATHER PART II
THE GREAT GATSBY
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
THE TOWERING INFERNO
Also Considered:
AIRPORT 1975; BLAZING SADDLES; CLAUDINE; HARRY & TONTO; LENNY; THE LONGEST YARD; THE PARALLAX VIEW; SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE; A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE; YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ
Mordecai Richler
THE FRONT PAGE
Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
THE GODFATHER PART II
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
LENNY
Julian Barry
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Paul Dehn
THE ODESSA FILE
Kenneth Ross & George Markstein
THE PARALLAX VIEW
David Giler & Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
Brian de Palma
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
Peter Stone
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder
Also Considered:
CONRACK (Irving Ravetsch & Harriet Frank, Jr.); DEATH
WISH (Wendell Mayes); DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY (Leigh Chapman & Antonio Santean); THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (George MacDonald Fraser); THE GAMBLER (James Toback); GOLD (Wilbur Smith &
Stanley Price); THE GREAT GATSBY (Francis Ford Coppola); LACOMBE, LUCIEN (Louis Malle & Patrick Modiano); THE LITTLE PRINCE (Alan Jay Lerner); THE TOWERING INFERNO (Stirling
Silliphant)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Robert Getchell
AMARCORD
Federico Fellini & Tonino Guerra
BLAZING SADDLES
Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor & Alan
Unger
CHINATOWN
Robert Towne
THE CONVERSATION
Francis Ford Coppola
HARRY & TONTO
Paul Mazursky & Josh Greenfield
THE LONGEST YARD
Tracy Keenan Wynn
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
Ingmar Bergman
THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins & Steven Spielberg
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
John Cassavetes
Also Considered:
BENJI (Joe Camp); BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Sam
Peckinpah, Gordon Dawson & Frank Kowalski); CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Joseph Walsh); CLAUDINE (Tina Pine & Lester Pine); DARK STAR (John Carpenter & Dan O’Bannon); THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR
HAUSER (Werner Herzog); FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder); FREEBIE & THE BEAN (Richard Kaufman); FOR PETE'S SAKE (Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin); THUNDERBOLT &
LIGHTFOOT (Michael Cimino)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
JACK & THE BEANSTALK
Gisaburo Sugii
THE NINE LIVES OF FRITZ THE CAT
Steve Krantz
WINNIE THE POOH & TIGGER TOO
Wolfgang Reitherman
Also Considered:
CLOSED MONDAYS (Will Vinton & Bob Gardiner); HUNGER (Peter Foldes); THE
YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS (Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
CHINATOWN
John A. Alonzo
THE DOVE
Sven Nykvist
THE GODFATHER PART II
Gordon Willis
THE GREAT GATSBY
Douglas Slocombe
LANCELOT DU LAC
Pasqualino de Santis
LENNY
Bruce Surtees
THE LITTLE PRINCE
Christopher Challis
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Geoffrey Unsworth
THE TOWERING INFERNO
Fred Koenecamp & Joseph Biroc
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Gerald Hirschfeld
Also Considered:
AMARCORD (Giuseppe Rotunno); THE CONVERSATION (Bill
Butler); EARTHQUAKE (Philip Lathrop); THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (David Watkin); GOLD (Ousama Rawi); THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD (Frank Phillips); THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (Ted Moore
& Oswald Morris); THE PARALLAX VIEW (Gordon Willis); THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Owen Roizman); ZARDOZ (Geoffrey Unsworth)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BLAZING SADDLES
Vittorio Nino Novarese
CHINATOWN
Anthea Sylbert
DAISY MILLER
John Furness
THE FOUR MUSKETEERS
Yvonne Blake & Ron Talsky
THE GODFATHER PART II
Theadora Van Runkle
THE GREAT GATSBY
Theoni V. Aldredge
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Tony Walton
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
Rosanna Norton
THE TOWERING INFERNO
Paul Zastupnevich
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Dorothy Jeakins
Also Considered:
AIRPORT 1975 (Edith Head); AMARCORD (Danilo Donati);
ARABIAN NIGHTS (Danilo Donati); EARTHQUAKE (Burton Miller & Edith Head); HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Donfeld); THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD (Chuck Keehne & Emily Sundby); LENNY (Albert
Wolsky); THE LITTLE PRINCE (Tim Goodchild & Shirley Russell); THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK (Moss Mabry); ZARDOZ (Jack Gallagher)
BEST FILM EDITING
BLAZING SADDLES
Danford B. Greene & John C. Howard
CHINATOWN
Sam O'Steen
THE CONVERSATION
Walter Murch & Richard Chew
EARTHQUAKE
Dorothy Spencer
LENNY
Alan Heim
THE LONGEST YARD
Michael Luciano
THE PARALLAX VIEW
John W. Wheeler
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
Jerry Greenberg & Robert Q. Lovett
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Sally Richardson
THE TOWERING INFERNO
Harold F. Kress & Carl Kress
Also Considered:
THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (John Victor-Smith); FREEBIE & THE
BEAN (Michael McLean & Fredric Steinkamp); THE FRONT PAGE (Ralph E. Winters); THE GODFATHER PART II (Peter Zinner, Barry Malkin & Richard Marks); THE INTERNECINE PROJECT (John
Shirley); THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (Raymond Poulton & John Shirley); MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Anne V. Coates); PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Paul Hirsch); THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Edward
Abroms & Verna Fields); YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John C. Howard)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
AMARCORD
Italy; Federico Fellini
CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING
France; Jacques Rivette
THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER
West Germany; Werner Herzog
FEAR EATS THE SOUL
West Germany; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
GOING PLACES
France; Bertrand Blier
LACOMBE, LUCIEN
France; Louis Malle
LANCELOT DU LAC
France; Robert Bresson
THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD
Switzerland; Alain Tanner
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
France; Luis Bunuel
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
Sweden; Ingmar Bergman
Also Considered:
ALICE IN THE CITIES (West Germany; Wim Wenders);
ARABIAN NIGHTS (Italy; Pier Paolo Pasolini); CAT'S PLAY (Hungary; Karoly Makk); CONVERSATION PIECE (Italy; Luchino Visconti); EFFI BRIEST (West Germany; Rainer Werner
Fassbinder); KAZABLAN (Israel; Menahem Golan); NADA (France; Claude Chabrol); TO DIE IN THE COUNTRY (Japan; Shuji Terayama); SWEPT AWAY... BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE
BLUE SEA OF AUGUST (Italy; Lina Wertmüller); THE TRUCE (Argentina; Sergio Renan)
BEST MAKEUP
CHINATOWN
Lee Harman & Hank Edds
IT'S ALIVE
Rick Baker
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
John Chambers
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
W.C. Barnes & Dorothy Pearl
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
William Tuttle
Also Considered:
THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (Jose Antonio Sanchez & Carmen
Sanchez); THE GODFATHER PART II (Dick Smith & Charles Schram); THE GREAT GATSBY (Charles E. Parker & Gary Liddiard); MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Stuart Freeborn); THE TOWERING
INFERNO (Monty Westmore & Emile LaVigne)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
CHINATOWN
Jerry Goldsmith
DEATH WISH
Herbie Hancock
EARTHQUAKE
John Williams
THE GODFATHER PART II
Carmine Coppola & Nino Rota
THE GREAT GATSBY
Nelson Riddle
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Richard Rodney Bennett
THE PARALLAX VIEW
Michael Small
SHANKS
Alex North
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
David Shire
THE TOWERING INFERNO
John Williams
Also Considered:
AIRPORT 1975 (John Cacavas); BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO
GARCIA (Jerry Fielding); THE CONVERSATION (David Shire); THE
DOVE (John Barry); THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (Lalo Schifrin); THE GAMBLER (Jerry Fielding); IT'S ALIVE (Bernard Herrmann); LENNY (Ralph Burns); THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (John Williams); SWEPT
AWAY... BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST (Piero Piccioni)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
AMARCORD
Nino Rota
BLAZING SADDLES
John Morris
HARRY & TONTO
Bill Conti
HERBIE RIDES AGAIN
George Bruns
THE LITTLE PRINCE
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Leowe
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
Paul Williams
STARDUST
Dave Edmunds
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
John Morris
Also Considered:
BENJI (Euel Box); FREEBIE & THE BEAN (Dominic
Frontiere); THE FRONT PAGE (Billy May); GOING PLACES (Stephane Grappelli); THE LONGEST YARD (Frank de Vol); MAME (Jerry Herman); THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT (Dee Barton); WINNIE THE POOH
& TIGGER TOO (Buddy Baker)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Blazing Saddles" - BLAZING SADDLES
John Morris & Mel Brooks
"Faust" - PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
Paul Williams
"I Feel Love" - BENJI
Euel Box & Betty Box
"Little Prince" - THE LITTLE PRINCE
Frederic Leowe & Alan Jay Lerner
"On & On" - CLAUDINE
Curtis Mayfield
"We May Never Love Like This Again" - THE TOWERING INFERNO
Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn
"Wherever Love Takes Me" - GOLD
Elmer Bernstein & Don Black
"You & Me" - FREEBIE & THE BEAN
Dominic Frontiere, Bobby Hart & Danny Janssen
Also Considered:
"The Ballad Of Rock Ridge" - BLAZING SADDLES (Mel Brooks);
"Goodbye Eddie Goodbye" - PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Paul Williams); "I Never Met A Rose" - THE LITTLE PRINCE (Frederick Leowe & Alan Jay Lerner); "The Man With The Golden Gun" - THE
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (John Barry & Don Black); "Rosa Rosa" - KAZABLAN (Dov Seltzer & Haim Hefer); "Sail The Summer Winds" - THE DOVE (John Barry & Don
Black); "Special
To Me" - PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Paul Williams); "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" - WINNIE THE POOH & TIGGER TOO (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN / SET DECORATION
CHINATOWN
Richard Sylbert & W. Stewart Campbell; Ruby Levitt
EARTHQUAKE
Alexander Golitzen; Frank McKelvy
THE GODFATHER PART II
Dean Tavoularis & Angelo Graham; George R. Nelson
THE GREAT GATSBY
John Box; Peter Howitt
THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
Peter Ellenshaw, John B. Mansbridge, Walter Tyler & Al Roelfs; Hal
Gausman
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Tony Walton & Jack Stephens
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
Jack Fisk
THE TOWERING INFERNO
William Creber & Ward Preston; Raphael Bretton
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Dale Hennessy; Robert de Vestel
Also Considered:
AIRPORT 1975 (George C. Webb; Mickey S. Michaels); BLAZING
SADDLES (Peter Wooley; Morris Hoffman); DAISY MILLER (Fernando Scarfiotti); DARK STAR (Dan O'Bannon); THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (Brian Easdale); HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Philip Jeffries; Robert de
Vestel); LENNY (Joel Schiller; Nicholas Romanak); THE LITTLE PRINCE (John Barry & Norman Reynolds); THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (Peter Murton, John Graysmark & Peter
Lamont); THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Gene Rudolf; Herb Mulligan); ZARDOZ (Anthony Pratt; John Hoesli)
BEST SOUND
CHINATOWN
Bud Grenzback & Lawrence Jost
THE CONVERSATION
Walter Murch & Arthur Rochester
EARTHQUAKE
Ronald Pierce & Mel Metcalfe
FREEBIE & THE BEAN
Arthur Piantadosi & Barry Thomas
THE GODFATHER PART II
Pat Jackson, Mark Berger & Walter Murch
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
Gordon Everett & Ken Barker
THE PARALLAX VIEW
Bud Grenzback, David Dockendorf & Tom Overton
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
Al Gramaglia & Chris Newman
THE TOWERING INFERNO
Theodore Soderberg & Herman Lewis
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Richard Portman & Gene Cantamessa
Also Considered:
AIRPORT 1975 (Roger Heman, Robert L. Hoyt, Earl Madery
& Mel Metcalfe); BLAZING SADDLES (Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler & Gene Cantamessa); THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (Gerry Humphreys, Roy Charman & Simon Kaye); GOLD (John
W. Mitchell & Gordon K. McCallum); JUGGERNAUT (Gerry Humphreys & Simon Kaye); LENNY (Dennis Maitland & Richard Vorisek); THE LONGEST YARD (Jim Foglesong & John
Wilkinson); MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Peter Handford, Jonathan Bates & Bill Rowe); PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (James Tenenbaum & Al Gramaglia); THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Wayne
Bell, Buzz Knudson & Jay M. Harding)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
EARTHQUAKE
Ronald Pierce & Melvin Metcalfe
FREEBIE & THE BEAN
James M. Falkinburg & Sam F. Shaw
THE LONGEST YARD
Howard Beals & Gordon Daniel
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
Maurice Schell
THE TOWERING INFERNO
Don Hall
Also Considered:
AIRPORT '75 (Roger Sword & Jim Troutman); CHINATOWN
(Bob Cornett & Howard Beals); THE CONVERSATION (Howard Beals & Walter Murch); THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (Jim Shields); YOUNG
FRANKENSTEIN (Don Hall)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
EARTHQUAKE
Albert Whitlock, Frank Brendel & Glen Robinson
FLESH GORDON
Howard Ziehm, Dennis Muren, David Allen & Gregory Jein
THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
Peter Ellenshaw, Art Cruickshank & Danny Lee
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
John Stears & Derek Meddings
THE TOWERING INFERNO
A.D. Flowers, L.B. Abbott & Logan Frazee
Also Considered:
AIRPORT '75 (Ben McMahan); DARK STAR (Douglas Knapp, Bill
Taylor, John Carpenter & Dan O'Bannon); THE LITTLE PRINCE (Tom Howard); YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (Henry Millar, Jr. & Hal Millar); ZARDOZ (Charles Staffell & Gerry
Johnston)
Most Wins:
5 - Chinatown
4 - The Godfather part II
2 - Earthquake
1 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Benji; The Conversation; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; The Great Gatsby; Lenny; Phantom of the Paradise; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; The Towering Inferno; Winnie the Pooh & Tigger Too; Young Frankenstein
Most Nominations:
15 - The Godfather part II
14 - Chinatown
12 - The Towering Inferno
10 - Young Frankenstein
8 - Murder on the Orient Express; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Blazing Saddles; The Conversation; The Great Gatsby; Lenny
6 - Earthquake; Phantom of the Paradise
5 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
WORST FILM
ALIEN THUNDER (Marie-José Raymond)
ALVIN RIDES AGAIN (Tim Burstall)
THE BAT PEOPLE (Lou Shaw)
DOUBLE AGENT 73 (Doris Wishman)
DYNAMITE BROTHERS (Marvin Lagunoff & Jim
Rein)
THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN (Tom Boutross & Ray
Storey)
MEAN MOTHER (Samuel M. Sherman)
SISTER STREET FIGHTER (Kenji Takamura & Kineo
Yoshimine)
UFO: TARGET EARTH (Michael A. DeGaetano)
ZARDOZ (John Boorman)
WORST ACTOR
Graeme Blundell - ALVIN RIDES AGAIN
Timothy Brown - DYNAMITE BROTHERS
Sonny Chiba - SISTER STREET FIGHTER / THE STREET
FIGHTER
Sean Connery - ZARDOZ
Victor French - THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN
Jim Kelly - BLACK BELT JONES
Lee Marvin - THE KLANSMAN
Stewart Moss - THE BAT PEOPLE
Morgan Paul - DIRTY O'NEIL
Nick Plakias - UFO: TARGET EARTH
WORST ACTRESS
Filiz Akin - KARATE GIRL
Jeannie Bell - TNT JACKSON
Marki Bey - SUGAR HILL
Ava Gardner - EARTHQUAKE
Jo Johnston - THE SWINGING
CHEERLEADERS
Sylvia Kristel - EMMANUELLE
Chesty Morgan - DOUBLE AGENT 73
Cybill Shepherd - DAISY MILLER
Etsuko 'Sue' Shihomi - SISTER STREET FIGHTER
Carol Speed - ABBY
WORST DIRECTOR
Al Adamson - DYNAMITE BROTHERS
David Bilcock & Robin Copping - ALVIN RIDES
AGAIN
John Boorman - ZARDOZ
Michael A. DeGaetano - UFO: TARGET EARTH
Claude Fournier - ALIEN THUNDER
Ron Honthaner - THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN
Jerry Jameson - THE BAT PEOPLE
Frank Laughlin - THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK
Doris Wishman - DOUBLE AGENT 73
Terence Young - THE KLANSMAN
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Niall Buggy - ZARDOZ
John David Carson - THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE
Mike Evans - THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN
Walter Matthau - EARTHQUAKE
Art Metrano - DIRTY O'NEIL
Michael Pataki - THE BAT PEOPLE
Dennis Safren - MEAN MOTHER
O.J. Simpson - THE KLANSMAN
Alan Tang - DYNAMITE BROTHERS
Robert Walker, Jr. - GONE WITH THE WEST
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Xenona Clayton - THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN
Chantal Contouri - ALVIN RIDES AGAIN
Linda Evans - THE KLANSMAN
Marika Green - EMMANUELLE
Jill Harris - DOUBLE AGENT 73
Gloria Hendry - BLACK BELT JONES
Janee Michelle - THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN
Luciana Paluzzi - THE KLANSMAN / MEAN MOTHER
Katie Saylor - DIRTY O'NEIL
Carol Speed - DYNAMITE BROTHERS
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTATION)
THE ABDICATION (Ruth Wolff)
ALVIN RIDES AGAIN (Alan Hopgood)
DAISY MILLER (Frederic Raphael)
THE DEVIL WITHIN HER (O. Hellman, Antonio Troiso &
Robert Barrett)
EMMANUELLE (Jean-Louis Richard)
THE KLANSMAN (Millard Kaufman & Samuel
Fuller)
MEAN MOTHER (Joy Garrison & Charles Eric
Johnson)
RHINOCEROS (Julian Barry)
THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK (Frank Christina & Teresa
Christina)
WONDER WOMAN (John D.F. Black)
WORST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
THE BAT PEOPLE (Lou Shaw)
DIRTY O'NEIL (Howard Freen)
DOUBLE AGENT 73 (Doris Wishman)
DYNAMITE BROTHERS (John D'Amato, Marvin Lagunoff & Jim
Rein)
THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN (Mildred Pares)
THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE (Max Ehrlich & Frank
DeFelitta)
SNAKES (Arthur Names & John T. Wilson)
THE SWINGING CHEERLEADERS (Jane Witherspoon & Betty
Conklin)
UFO: TARGET EARTH (Michael A. DeGaetano)
ZARDOZ (John Boorman)
WORST MUSIC SCORE
THE
BAT PEOPLE (Artie Kane)
CRAZE
(John Scott)
THE
DEVIL WITHIN HER (Franco Micalizzi)
DIRTY
O'NEIL (Raoul Kraushaar)
DYNAMITE BROTHERS (Charles Earland)
EMMANUELLE (Pierre Bachelet)
THE
HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN (Jerrold Immel)
THE
KLANSMAN (Stu Gardner & Dale O. Warren)
THE
SWINGING CHEERLEADERS (William Castleman & William Loose)
ZARDOZ (David Munrow)
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