1976 Oscar Shouldabeens

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Picture:
All The President's Men
Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000
Kings Of The Road
Solaris
*Taxi Driver*

Actor:
*Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver*
William Holden - Network
Philippe Noiret – The Clockmaker
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
John Wayne – The Shootist

Actress:
Natalya Bondarchuk – Solaris
Faye Dunaway – Network
Audrey Hepburn – Robin And Marian
Sissy Spacek - Carrie
*Liv Ullmann – Face To Face*

Supporting Actor:
Jacques Denis - Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000
Harvey Keitel – Taxi Driver
*Zero Mostel – The Front*
Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man
Jason Robards – All The President’s Men

Supporting Actress:
Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
Rita Moreno – The Ritz
Talia Shire - Rocky
Beatrice Straight - Network
Kinuyo Tanaka – Sandakan 8

Director:
Alan J. Pakula - All The President's Men
*Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver*
Alain Tanner - Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000
Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris
Wim Wenders – Kings Of The Road

Original Screenplay:
John Berger & Alain Tanner – Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000
Paddy Chayefsky – Network
Paul Schrader – Taxi Driver
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
Wim Wenders – Kings Of The Road

Adapted Screenplay:
Jean Aurenche & Pierre Bost - The Clockmaker
Robert Getchell - Bound For Glory
William Goldman – All The President’s Men
Fridrikh Gorenshtein & Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris
Scott Hale & Miles Hood Swarthout – The Shootist

Foreign Film:
Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000 (Switzerland)
Kings Of The Road (Germany)
Sandakan 8 (Japan)
Small Change (France)
Solaris (USSR)
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Film:
*Taxi Driver
Lifeguard
Lipstick
Bound for Glory
Network

Actor:
* Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
Sam Elliott (Lifeguard)
Peter Finch (Network)
Walter Matthau (Bad News Bears)
Dustin Hoffman (All the President's Men)

Actress:
* Faye Dunaway (Network)
Sissy Spacek (Carrie)
Margaux Hemingway (Lipstick)
Tatum O'Neal (Bad News Bears)
Marie-Christine Barrault (Cosuin, Cosuine)

Supporting Actor:
*Peter Boyle (Taxi Driver)
Albert Brooks (Taxi Driver)
Burgess Meredith (Rocky)
Robert Duvall (Network)
Parker Stevenson (Lifeguard)

Supporting Actress:
*Kathleen Quinlan (Lifeguard)
Anne Archer (Lifeguard)
Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver)
Cybill Shepherd (Taxi Driver)
P.J. Soles (Carrie)
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Post by Reza »

I have always thought Straight's win was richly deserved. The size of her role never bothered me. She brings such anguish to that one scene where she berates Holden. Not unlike a similar scene between Miranda Richardson and Jeremy Irons in Damage - for which Richardson was nominated.



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Straight's nomination was not a surprise, though her win was. She was basically a stage actress who had been prominent in early live TV of the 50s. She was married to stage and occasional film actor Peter Cookson and was a prominent member of New York high society. She was one of the Whitneys, making her the only blue blood ever to win an acting Oscar.

Among the non-nominees who might have made the list instead are Rita Moreno in The Ritz (arguably a best actress contender), Talia Shire in Rocky (moved to lead due to the dirth of strong performances in that category and Shelley Winters in Next Stop, Greenwich Village, her best ever performance IMO.




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Well, I didn´t mean that Alexander deserved it that particular year. I was talking only in general terms (her four nominations, the two I've seen are very worthy, and zero wins). And I didn't try to prove either what role was bigger, only that I was curious about Straight so commented win (the smallest role in time ever to win an Oscar? or was she beated by Dench in Shakespeare? I do not think so, Straight has practically only one scene in the whole film, the rest are "appearences"). In your list, was not any other actress from that year better so that she could have pulled Straight off the list? What other supporting actresses were in the race? Was a shock when Straight was nominated? Just curious...
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Was Jane Alexander's role in All the President's Men any bigger than Straight's? It's been a while since I've seen the film, but I don't think so.
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Post by HarryGoldfarb »

This was a very good year in films, it is a shame that Rocky manage to get the Oscar and be the one film to be remembered as the best of the year and in that way to represent a most prolific year in film.

I have my doubts about the actual winners: Though my favorite film of that year is Network, and though I loved all the performances in it, shouldn't Peter Finch deserved to be in the Supporting Actor category? However I also think Robert Duvall and Ned Beatty were great in their obvious supporting roles, and also I like Holden's performance more than the excentric caracterization of Finch, but when considering both performances I see Holden as a leading man and Finch as a supporting (but then again, if Finch is supportng what the hell is the non-nominated Duvall and even worst, what is Beatty??)... It still confuses me (I think it is the same thing that is happening this year with Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah!)

DeNiro is extremely great in Taxi Driver, a film that I just saw a year ago. However, I think he is better in Raging Bull and when seeng TD I couldn't help to think that it is such a temporary film, almost an evident pop culture phenomenon that caught the essence of that time, the alienation, the oportune social criticism... a triumph but in script and direction. On the other hand Jodie Foster was the deserved winner, no matter how much I like Network, I can not fool myself and say Straight was better in her 15 minutes... (However Magilla, I'm curious you still put Straight in the nominees list: was she better than any other non-nominated actress that year with those only few minutes??)

Finally, it's a shame that Jane Alexander, being the great actress she was, hasn't manage to get an Oscar.
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1976 Oscar Shouldabeens

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1976

Best Picture
*All the President’s Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Rocky
Taxi Driver

Best Actor
David Carradine, Bound for Glory
*Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver
William Holden, Network
Sylvester Stallone, Rocky
John Wayne, The Shootist

Best Actress
Faye Dunaway, Network
Audrey Hepburn, Robin and Marian
Lee Remick, The Omen
*Sissy Spacek, Carrie
Liv Ullmann, Face to Face

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, Network
Peter Finch, Network
Burgess Meredith, Rocky
Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man
*Jason Robards, All the President’s Men

Best Supporting Actress
Jane Alexander, All the President’s Men
Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver
*Piper Laurie, Carrie
Talia Shire, Rocky
Beatrice Straight, Network

Best Director
Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
Sidney Lumet, Network
*Alan J. Pakula, All the President’s Men
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties
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