1975: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

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  1. Barry Lyndon (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

  2. Jaws (dir: Steven Spielberg)

  3. Dog Day Afternoon (dir: Sidney Lumet)

  4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (dir: Milos Forman)

  5. Seven Beauties (dir: Lina Wertmüller)

  6. The Great Waldo Pepper (dir: George Roy Hill)

  7. Hard Times (dir: Walter Hill)

  8. Belladonna of Sadness (dir: Eiichi Yamamoto; International release date)

  9. Hester Street (dir: Joan Micklin Silver)

  10. Vampyres (dir: Joseph Larraz; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Day of the Locust (dir: John Schlesinger), Deep Red (dir: Dario Argento), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (dir: Werner Herzog; US Release Date), Fox and His Friends (dir: Rainier Werner Fassbinder), Grey Gardens (dir: Albert Maysles, David Maysels, Muffie Meyer, and Ellen Hovde), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (dir: Rainier Werner Fassbinder), Inserts (dir: John Byrum), Night Moves (dir: Arthur Penn), The Passenger (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir: Jim Sharman), and Shampoo (dir: Hal Ashby)


Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Best Picture: Barry Lyndon
Director/Producer: Stanley Kubrick
US Distributor: Warner Brothers


Stanley Kubrick on the set of Barry Lyndon

Best Director
Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon

2. Steven Spielberg, Jaws
3. Lina Wertmüller, Seven Beauties
4. Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
5. Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon


Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon

Best Actor:
Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

2. Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3. Bruno S., The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
4. Giancarlo Giannini, Seven Beauties
5. Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show


Ann-Margret in Ken Russell’s Tommy

Ann-Margret in Ken Russell’s Tommy

Best Actress:
Ann-Margret, Tommy

2. Brigitte Mira, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
3. Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H.
4. Diane Keaton, Love and Death
5. Romy Schneider, The Most Important Thing: Love

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James Coburn and Margaret Blye in Walter Hill’s Hard Times

James Coburn and Margaret Blye in Walter Hill’s Hard Times

Best Supporting Actor:
James Coburn, Hard Times
2. Donald Sutherland, The Day of the Locust
3. Jack Warden, Shampoo
4. John Cazale, Dog Day Afternoon
5. Robert Shaw, Jaws

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(left) Susan Sarandon and Robert Redford in George Roy Hill’s The Great Waldo Pepper (right) Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon in Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Best Supporting Actress:
Susan Sarandon, The Great Waldo Pepper AND The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2. Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Shirley Stoler, Seven Beauties
4. Ronee Blakely, Nashville
5. Jessica Harper, Inserts


Francesca Marciano in Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties

Francesca Marciano in Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties

Best Original Screenplay:
Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller
2. Shampoo — Robert Towne and Warren Beatty
3. Dog Day Afternoon — Frank Piersen
4. Inserts — John Byrum
5. The Great Waldo Pepper — William Goldman and George Roy Hill


Jack Nicholson in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Best Adapted Screenplay:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
2. Barry Lyndon — Stanley Kubrick
3. Hester Street — Joan Micklin Silver
4. The Day of the Locust — Waldo Salt
5. Jaws — Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb

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Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Best Cinematography:
Barry Lyndon — John Alcott
2. The Passenger — Luciano Tovoli
3. Jaws — Bill Butler
4. Seven Beauties — Tonino Delli Colli
5. Vampyres — Harry Waxman

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Roy Scheider and Bruce the shark in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws

Roy Scheider and Bruce the shark in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws

Best Film Editing:
Jaws — Verna Fields
2. Dog Day Afternoon — Dede Allen
3. Barry Lyndon — Tony Lawson
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Sheldon Kahn and Lynzee Klingman
5. The Great Waldo Pepper — William Reynolds


Susan Backlinie in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws

Susan Backlinie in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws

Best Original Score:
Jaws — John Williams
2. Seven Beauties — Enzo Jannacci
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Jack Nitzsche
4. The Day of the Locust – John Barry
5. Deep Red — Giorgio Gaslini, Dario Argento, Agostino Marangolo, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli, and Claudio Simonetti

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Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Best Production Design:
Barry Lyndon — Ken Adam and Roy Walker
2. The Day of the Locust — Richard Macdonald, George Hopkins and Rick Simpson
3. Tommy — John Clark
4. The Man Who Would Be King — Alexander Trauner
5. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser — Henning von Geirke

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Maria Berenson in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Maria Berenson in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Best Costume Design:
Barry Lyndon – Ulla-Britt Söderlund and Milena Canonero
2. The Man Who Would Be King — Edith Head
3. Tommy — Shirley Russell
4. Rocky Horror Picture Show – Sue Blane
5. Hard Times — Jack Bear

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Best Visual Effects:
The Hindenburg

Best Sound:
Nashville


Best Documentary Feature: 
Albert Maysles, David Maysels, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, Grey Gardens

Best Animated Feature: 
Eiichi Yamamoto, Belladonna of Sadness

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Best Ensemble Cast:
Shampoo

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Walter Hill, Hard Times

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Best Ensemble Cast:
Shampoo
(dir: Hal Ashby; in alphabetical order), Warren Beatty (pictured), Tony Bill, Julie Christie (pictured), George Furth, Lee Grant, Goldie Hawn, Jay Robinson, Jack Warden and Ann Weldon

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Charles Bronson in Walter Hill’s Hard Times 


RECAP

W I N S :

Barry Lyndon 6,
Hard Times 2, Jaws 2, Belladonna of Sadness — 1, Dog Day Afternoon 1, The Great Waldo Pepper 1, Grey Gardens 1, The Hindenburg 1, Nashville 1, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1, The Rocky Horror Picture Show — 1, Seven Beauties 1, Shampoo — 1, Tommy1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Barry Lyndon 7, Jaws — 7, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 7, Seven Beauties 7, Dog Day Afternoon 6, Day of the Locust 4, The Great Waldo Pepper 4, Hard Times 4, Shampoo 4, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 3, Rocky Horror Picture Show 3, Nashville 2, Tommy 3, Belladonna of Sadness 2, Hester Street 2, Inserts 2, The Man Who Would Be King — 2, Vampyres 2


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