GREAT MOMENTS-the 1974 Oscars

The Oscars for 1974. Has there ever been a greater collection of talent among the nominees? Have we seen a collection of nominated best pictures of this quality?

Nominated for best picture were
Chinatown
The Conversation
The Godfather II
Lenny

Towering inferno

Among the nominees were Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, Albert Finney, Jeff Bridges, Fred Astaire, Lee Strasburg, John Cassavetes, Bob Fosse, Roman Polanski, Francois Truffaut, Francis Ford Coppolla, Faye Dunaway, Gena Rowlands, Diane Ladd, Ingrid Bergman, Gene wilder and Mel Brooks.

Films featured in other categories were

Murder on The Orient Express

Day for Night

Alice doesn’t live here anymore Blazing Saddles

A woman under the influence

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Young Frankenstein

Cast/directors of films in all categories included Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Gene Hackman,William Holden, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagne,rLauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York and Richard Widmark, Martin Scorsese, John Huston, Sidney Lumet

The ‘big five’ winners were

The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola, producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, co-producers (Paramount)

Art Carney, Harry and Tonto

Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Robert De Niro, The Godfather Part II

Ingrid Bergman, Murder on the Orient Express

All this and a streaker!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IIl3zSYL8k

niven stays cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PRT5TKGo0I

nominees

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