"the world, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. It won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Its director Francis Ford Coppola was passed over in favor of Bob Fosse and his musical, ""Cabaret"", which also earned an Oscar for its star, Liza Minnelli. ""The Godfather Part II"" followed in 1974, with roughly the same principal cast and crew, earning Oscars for star Robert De Niro, its director, composer, screenwriters and art directors. The film also earned the Best Picture Oscar for that year. Not all of the ""street smart"" urban related films were 100% live"
"did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972. Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. ""Cabaret"", Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner ""The Godfather"" received only three Academy Awards. This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress. This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony. Winners are listed first in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations."
"death, New York Governor George Pataki granted him a posthumous pardon for his obscenity conviction. Bruce was the subject of the 1974 biographical film ""Lenny"", directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman (in an Academy Award-nominated Best Actor role), and based on the Broadway stage play of the same name written by Julian Barry and starring Cliff Gorman in his 1972 Tony Award-winning role. In addition, the main character's editing of a fictionalized film version of ""Lenny"" was a major part of Fosse's own biopic, the 1979 Academy Award-nominated ""All That Jazz. The documentary ""Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell"
"musical film for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Although estranged as a couple, Verdon and Fosse continued to collaborate on projects such as the musical ""Chicago"" (1975) (in which she originated the role of murderess Roxie Hart) and the musical ""Dancin'"" (1978), as well as Fosse's autobiographical movie ""All That Jazz"" (1979). The helpmeet/peer played by Leland Palmer in that film is based on the role Verdon played in Fosse's real life. She also developed a close working relationship with Fosse's partner, Broadway dancer Ann Reinking, and she instructed for Reinking's musical theatre classes. Reinking can"
"Brando. The film was shot on location in Berlin and Munich, Germany; In 1979, Fosse co-wrote and directed a semi-autobiographical film ""All That Jazz"" (1979), which portrayed the life of a womanizing, drug-addicted choreographer-director in the midst of triumph and failure. Ann Reinking appears in the film as the protagonist's lover, protégé and domestic-partner. ""All That Jazz"" won four Academy Awards, earning Fosse his third Oscar nomination for Best Director. It also won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In the summer and fall of 1980, working with ""All That Jazz"" executive producer Daniel Melnick, Fosse commissioned"
"he began his American directing career with ""The Appaloosa"", a Western film starring Marlon Brando and John Saxon. He revisited the spy genre with a follow-up to ""The Ipcress File""; ""The Naked Runner"". Both films feature Furie's signature visuals and directorial style. In 1972, he directed Lady Sings the Blues, a biographical drama about the life of jazz singer-songwriter Billie Holiday, for which lead actress Diana Ross was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Furie was later attached to direct the similarly-themed remake of ""The Jazz Singer"", but was replaced by Richard Fleischer halfway through principal photography. He"
"project as a film editor was ""An Affair to Remember"" in 1954. In 1995, Bretherton received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Bretherton died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2000. Bretherton's most noted work was the editing of the film ""Cabaret"" (1972), which was directed by Bob Fosse. Bretherton received the Academy Award for Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for this film. In his 1972 review, Roger Greenspun gives some insight into Bretherton's achievement: David Bretherton David Bretherton (February 29, 1924 – May 11, 2000) was an"
"of Film Critics Award for Best Actor and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. ""Star 80"" was the last film to be directed by Bob Fosse. In 1980, Dorothy Stratten has been murdered while the murderer reflects on this. The film is interspersed with the murder and events leading up. Two years earlier, she was working at a Dairy Queen in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia when Paul Snider, a brash, narcissistic, small-time scam artist and pimp, makes her acquaintance. He charms her into letting him take her to her high-school"
"of a Musical. He was also director and choreographer of ""Chicago"" in 1975, which also starred Verdon. In 1986, Fosse directed, wrote, and choreographed the Broadway production of ""Big Deal"". Although nominated for five Tony awards, and winning for best choreography, the production closed after only 69 performances. In 1957 he also choreographed the film version of ""The Pajama Game"" starring Doris Day. The next year, Fosse appears in the film version of ""Damn Yankees"", which he also choreographed, in which Verdon reprises her stage triumph as ""Lola""; they partner each other in the mambo number, ""Who's Got the Pain""."
"Mikis Theodorakis 1970: ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" – Burt Bacharach § 1971: ""Summer of '42"" – Michel Legrand † 1972: ""The Godfather"" – Nino Rota 1973: ""O Lucky Man!"" – Alan Price 1974: ""Murder on the Orient Express"" – Richard Rodney Bennett ‡ 1975: ""Jaws"" † and ""The Towering Inferno"" ‡ – John Williams 1976: ""Taxi Driver"" – Bernard Herrmann ‡ 1977: ""A Bridge Too Far"" – John Addison 1978: ""Star Wars"" – John Williams § 1979: ""Days of Heaven"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1980: ""The Empire Strikes Back"" – John Williams ‡ 1981: ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"""
"to the screening and ""agreed that it was a fantastic film."" In May 2002, the film won the ""Palme d'Or"" (Golden Palm) award at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Césars for Best Film and Best Director, and later the 2002 Academy Award for Best Director. Because Polanski would have been arrested in the United States, he did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood. After the announcement of the Best Director Award, Polanski received a standing ovation from most of those present in the theater. Actor Harrison Ford accepted the award for Polanski, and then presented the"
"appointment as Paramount Studios' President in 1971. As head of Paramount, he oversaw the release of such classic movies as ""The Godfather"" (1972), ""The Godfather: Part II"" (1974), and ""Chinatown"" (1974). Following the end of his presidency at Paramount in 1975, he became an independent producer, working primarily through Paramount and 20th Century Fox. He was executive producer of such films as ""Silver Streak"" (1976), ""The Other Side of Midnight"" (1977), ""Congo"" (1995), and the popular HBO series ""Rome."" He also wrote and produced ""North Dallas Forty"" (1979) and ""Mommie Dearest"" (1981), the latter winning the Golden Raspberry Award for"
"Bob Einstein, Phil Hahn, Coslough Johnson and Paul Wayne in 1972 and 1974 (Steve Martin also was nominated in the category in 1972 and Jim Mulligan was in 1974); Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for Bob Mackie and Ret Turner in 1972, 1974 and 1977; Outstanding Achievement in Music, Lyrics and Special Material for Earl Brown in 1972 and 1973; Outstanding Achievement in Musical Direction for James E. Dale in 1972 and for Marty Paich in 1974; Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction for John R. Beam in 1973; Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction for technical director Charles Franklin and cameramen"
"on Broadway . In 1999, Verdon served as artistic consultant on a plotless Broadway musical designed to showcase examples of classic Fosse choreography. Called simply ""Fosse"", the three-act musical revue was conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking and choreographed by Reinking and Chet Walker. Verdon and Fosse's daughter, Nicole, received a ""special thanks"" credit. The show won a Tony for best musical. Bob Fosse Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director and film director. He won eight Tony Awards for choreography, more than anyone else,"
"Fosse was intrigued with the project and saw it as a challenge to direct a non-musical and a dark horror story, which wasn't his milieu. Fosse was especially interested in the story's central question; How much of a beating can a happy family withstand? Fosse and the producers settled on a summer 1970 shoot date, Fosse took a trip to California to look for his haunted mansion. Eventually, Fosse's involvement with the project never materialized and he went on to direct ""Cabaret"", instead. Movie critic Roger Ebert called the film ""a mystery, all right"", concluding """"Burnt Offerings"" just persists, until"
"""Run Silent, Run Deep"" (1958), ""I Want to Live!"" (1958), ""The Haunting"" (1963), ""The Andromeda Strain"" (1971), ""The Hindenburg"" (1975) and """" (1979). Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987. Often contrasted with ""auteur"" directors such as Stanley Kubrick, who tended to bring a distinctive directorial ""look"" to a particular genre, Wise has been viewed as a craftsman, inclined to let the (sometimes studio-assigned) story concept set the style. Later ""cineastes"", such as Martin Scorsese, insist that"
"won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. During the 1970s, he made an array of films that were mainly about loners, losers and people outside the clean world, such as ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" (1971), ""The Day of the Locust"" (1975), ""Marathon Man"" (1976) and ""Yanks"" (1979). Later, came the major box office and critical failure of ""Honky Tonk Freeway"" (1981), followed by films that attracted mixed responses from the public, and few dollars, although"" The Falcon and the Snowman"" (1985) made money and ""Pacific Heights"" (1990) was a box-office hit. In Britain, he did better with films like ""Madame"
"All That Jazz (film) All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Fosse's manic effort to edit his film ""Lenny"" while simultaneously staging the 1975 Broadway musical ""Chicago"". It borrows its title from the Kander and Ebb tune ""All That Jazz"" in that production. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 2001, ""All That Jazz"" was deemed"
"and Nora Kaye to Buzz Miller and Jess Gerstein. Robbins shared the Best Director Oscar with Robert Wise for the film version of ""West Side Story"" (1961). Robbins was only the second director to win the Academy Award for Best Director for a film debut (after Delbert Mann for ""Marty""). That same year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with a special award for his choreographic achievements on film. In all, he was awarded with five Tony Awards, two Academy Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors (1981), the National Medal of Arts (1988), the French Legion of"
"Wind"", was nominated for several BAFTA awards, including Best Film from any Source and Best British Film in 1962. Four of his other films were also nominated for BAFTA awards, ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1959), ""Only Two Can Play"" (1962), ""Séance on a Wet Afternoon"" (1964) and ""King Rat"" (1965). In 2004, Forbes was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the arts. In 2006, he received the Dilys Powell Award for outstanding contribution to cinema of the London Film Critics' Circle Awards. In May 2007, he was the recipient of a BAFTA"
"two-year successful run under Richards' direction, and the film version was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. Petrie went on to have a fulfilling movie directing career because of the success of this movie; Richards did not get an opportunity to direct a movie again until 1995. Petrie directed ""Buster and Billie"" (1974); the Academy Award-nominated ""Resurrection"" (1980); ""Fort Apache, The Bronx"" (1981); and """" (1988). Petrie also directed television movies, such as ""Sybil"", ""Eleanor and Franklin"", """", ""The Dollmaker"", ""My Name Is Bill W."", ""Mark Twain and Me"", ""Kissinger and Nixon"", ""Inherit the Wind"","
"a whole slate of films in play."" Under Forbes's leadership, the studio produced ""The Railway Children"" (1970), ""The Tales of Beatrix Potter"" (1971) and ""The Go-Between"" (1971), all successful films. His tenure though, was short-lived and marked by financial problems, brought about by deliberately withheld funding and failed projects. Forbes resigned in 1971. In his autobiography ""A Divided Life"" he states that ""They were years of high hopes, of excitement, often of fulfilment and contrary to what various pundits said after the event, the programme proved a commercial success, returning according to the latest [1992] figures a profit in excess"
"Johnson – ""The Last Picture Show"" ""' Ann-Margret – ""Carnal Knowledge"" ""' Robert Young – ""Marcus Welby, M.D."" ""' Carroll O'Connor - ""All in the Family"" ""' Patricia Neal – ""The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"" ""' Carol Burnett – ""The Carol Burnett Show"" ""' ""Mannix"" ""' ""All in the Family"" ""' Edward Asner – ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" ""' Sue Ane Langdon – ""Arnie"" ""' ""The Snow Goose"" 29th Golden Globe Awards The 29th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1971 films, were held on February 6, 1972. ""' Gene Hackman – ""The French"
"he began working in his father's travel agency. However, he decided to change careers and took an assistant's job with notable costume maker Helene Pons. Wolsky became a well regarded costume designer, working both on Broadway and in the motion picture industry. The first film Wolsky worked on was ""The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"". He worked on many films including ""Harry and Tonto"", ""The Turning Point"", ""Grease"" and ""Manhattan"". He worked with Bob Fosse, a leading Broadway director, on ""All That Jazz"" and won his first Academy Award. He won his second Academy Award for ""Bugsy"" in 1991 and"
"(1983), ""Miller's Crossing"" (1990), ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000), ""Big Fish"" (2003), ""The Bourne Ultimatum"" (2007), ""Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"" (2007), ""The Bourne Legacy"" (2012), and the James Bond film ""Skyfall"" (2012). A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); he was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Finney was born in the Charlestown"
"an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for ""The Eyes of Love"" from the Universal Pictures film ""Banning"". Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1969 film ""In Cold Blood"", making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. In 1971, he became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He has tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as"
"Robert Wise Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both ""West Side Story"" (1961) and ""The Sound of Music"" (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for ""Citizen Kane"" (1941) and directed and produced ""The Sand Pebbles"" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Among his other films are ""The Body Snatcher"" (1945), ""Born to Kill"" (1947), ""The Set-Up"" (1949), ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"" (1951), ""Destination Gobi"" (1953), ""This Could Be The Night"" (1957),"
"Thing With Two Heads"" that starred Ray Milland, Rosey Grier and Don Marshall that was released in 1972. This was a film about a dying doctor who gets his head transplanted to the body of a man, Jack Moss, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Frost wrote the story for the film ""Race with the Devil"", which was released in 1975. In this film Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit and Lara Parker star as two couples that are being chased by Satan worshippers. Lee Frost (director) Lee Frost was a film director, producer, cinematographer, editor and occasional actor. He"
"of America Award for Best Original Drama Anthology. In addition to the feature film screenplays for ""Summertree"" (1971), ""A Reflection of Fear"" (1973) and ""Two-Minute Warning"" (1976), Hume wrote the TV movies ""The Harness"" (1971), ""Sweet Hostage"" (1973) and ""21 Hours in Munich"" (1976), dramatizing the events surrounding the Black September terrorist attack on Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics. ""The Terry Fox Story"" (1983) – the initial production of HBO Films—told the story of the young athlete who lost a leg to cancer, yet ran on a prosthesis across Canada promoting the Marathon of Hope, raising money for"
"about one of her relatives who was a painter leading a hippie life on a barge. At fifty-six, his contribution as one of five camera operators on the landmark rock concert documentary ""Woodstock"" (1970) brought an Oscar and established his reputation as a filmmaker in the rock music industry. That achievement was followed by his cinematography on ""Johnny Cash in San Quentin"" (1969), ""Elvis on Tour"" (1972), ""Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen"" (1971), ""Soul to Soul"" (1971), ""Wattstax"" (1973), ""Let the Good Times Roll"" (1973), ""Save the Children"" (1973), ""The Grateful Dead"" (1977), Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (1978),"
"finding a director; their first few candidates turned down the position. They and Coppola disagreed over who would play several characters, in particular, Vito and Michael. Filming took place on location, primarily around New York and in Sicily, and was completed ahead of schedule. The musical score was principally composed by Nino Rota, with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola. The film was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola). Its seven other Oscar nominations"
"Smith her first Oscar, and the action-adventure disaster film ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (1972). He also directed ""I Could Go On Singing"" (1963), Judy Garland's last film, and ""Scrooge"" (1970), starring Albert Finney, For his contributions to the film industry, Neame was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker. Neame's parents were the photographer Elwin Neame and the actress Ivy Close. He studied at University College School and Hurstpierpoint College. His father died in 1923, and Neame took a"
"""The Railway Children"" (1970), ""The Tales of Beatrix Potter"" (1971) and ""The Go-Between"" (1971), all successful films. His tenure though, was short-lived and marked by financial problems and failed projects. Forbes resigned in 1971. Coinciding with his time with EMI Films, he resumed directorial work with ""The Raging Moon"" (1971), starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman, Forbes's wife. From the early 1970s, Forbes divided his energies between cinema, television, theatre and writing. In 1972, Forbes started work on the documentary, ""Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things"" (1973), which chronicled the life of the young"