1977: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Padre Padrone (dir: Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani)

2. 3 Women (dir: Robert Altman)

3. The Ascent (dir: Larisa Shepitko)

4. Eraserhead (dir: David Lynch)

5. Sorcerer (dir: William Friedkin)

6. Suspiria (dir: Dario Argento)

7. Annie Hall (dir: Woody Allen)

8. The American Friend (dir: Wim Wenders)

9. The Devil, Probably (dir: Robert Bresson)

10. Private Vices, Public Virtues (dir: Miklós Jancsó; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Abigail’s Party (dir: Mike Leigh), Between the Lines (dir: Joan Micklin Silver), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir: Steven Spielberg), Cross of Iron (dir: Sam Peckinpah), The Duellists (dir: Ridley Scott), House (dir: Nobuhiko Ōbayashi), Julia (dir: Fred Zinnemann), New York, New York (dir: Martin Scorsese), Oh, God! (dir: Carl Reiner), One Sings the Other Doesn’t (dir: Agnes Varda), Opening Night (dir: John Cassavetes), Rolling Thunder (dir: John Flynn), Saturday Night Fever (dir: John Badham), Smokey and the Bandit (dir: Hal Needham), A Special Day (dir: Ettore Scola), Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (dir: George Lucas) and That Obscure Object of Desire (dir: Luis Buñuel)

Best Picture: Padre Padrone
Directors: Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani Producer: Giuliani G. De Negri
US Distributor: Cinema 5

Best Director:
Robert Altman, 3 Women
2. David Lynch, Eraserhead
3. Dario Argento, Suspiria
4. Larisa Shepitko, The Ascent
5. Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, Padre Padrone

Best Actor:
Bruno Ganz, The American Friend
2. Marcello Mastroianni, A Special Day
3. Woody Allen, Annie Hall
4. Vladimir Gostyukhin, The Ascent
5. John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever

Best Actress:
Gena Rowlands, Opening Night
2. Sophia Loren, A Special Day
3. Shelley Duvall, 3 Women
4. Diane Keaton, Annie Hall
5. Allison Steadman, Abigail’s Party

Best Supporting Actor:
Tommy Lee Jones, Rolling Thunder
2. George Burns, Oh, God!
3. Jackie Gleason, Smokey and the Bandit
4. Francois Truffaut, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Jason Robards, Julia

Best Supporting Actress:
Sissy Spacek, 3 Women
2. Joan Blondell, Opening Night
3. Vanessa Redgrave, Julia
4. Charlotte Stewart, Eraserhead
5. Terri Garr, Oh, God!

Best Original Screenplay:
Annie Hall — Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
2. The Devil, Probably — Robert Bresson
3. 3 Women — Robert Altman and Patricia Resnick
4. A Special Day — Ettore Scola, Ruggerio Maccari, and Maurizio Costanzo
5. Between the Lines — Fred Barron and David M. Helpern, Jr.

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Ascent — Yuri Klepikov and Larisa Shepitko
2. That Obscure Object of Desire — Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carriere
3. Saturday Night Fever — Norman Wexler
4. Padre Padrone – Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
5. The American Friend — Wim Wenders

Best Cinematography:
The American Friend — Robby Müller
2. Suspiria — Luciano Tovoli
3. Eraserhead — Herbert Caldwell and Frederick Elmes
4. The Ascent — Vladimir Chukhnov and Pavel Lebeshev
5. The Duellists — Frank Tidy

Best Film Editing:
Sorcerer — Bud Smith and Robert K. Lambert
2. Annie Hall — Wendy Greene Bricmont and Ralph Rosenbum
3. Suspiria – Franco Farticelli
4. House — Nobuo Ogawa
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Michael Kahn

Best Original Score:
Suspiria — Dario Argento, Agostino Marangolo, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli, and Claudio Simonetti
2. Star Wars — John Williams
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind — John Williams
4. Sorcerer — Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke
5. House — Asei Kobayashi and Mikki Yoshino

Best Production Design: 
Star Wars — John Barry and Roger Christian
2. New York, New York — Boris Levan, Robert DeBestel, and Ruby R. LEvitt
3. Eraserhead — David Lynch
4. Suspiria — Giuseppe Bassan and Aldo Taloni
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Joe Alves and Phil Abramson

Best Costume Design:
Star Wars — John Mollo
2. A Little Night Music — Florence Klotz
3. The Duellists — Tom Rand
4. New York, New York — Theadora Van Runkle
5. Saturday Night Fever — Patrizia von Brandenstein

Best Visual Effects
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Star Wars
3. Eraserhead

Best Sound
Star Wars
2. The Duellists
3. New York, New York

Best Documentary Feature:
George Butler and Robert Fiore, Pumping Iron

Best Animated Feature: 
Bruno Bozzetto, Allegro Non Troppo

Best Ensemble Cast:
Annie Hall

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
David Lynch, Eraserhead

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Annie Hall (dir: Woody Allen; in alphabetical order): Woody Allen (pictured), Colleen Dewhurst, Shelley Duvall, Carol Kane, Diane Keaton (pictured), Janet Margolin, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, and Christopher Walken

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Jack Nance in David Lynch’s Eraserhead

RECAP

W I N S :

3 Women — 3, Star Wars — 3,
Annie Hall — 2, The American Friend — 2, Allegro Non Tropo — 1, The Ascent — 1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind — 1, Eraserhead — 1, Opening Night — 1, Padre Padrone — 1, Pumping Iron — 1, Rolling Thunder — 1, Suspiria — 1

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

Eraserhead — 7,
3 Women — 6, Close Encounters of the Third Kind — 6, Suspiria — 6, Annie Hall — 5, The Ascent — 5, Star Wars — 5, The American Friend — 4, The Duellists — 4, New York, New York — 3, Opening Night — 3, Padre Padrone — 3, Saturday Night Fever — 3, Sorcerer — 3, A Special Day — 3, The Devil, Probably — 2, House — 2, Julia — 2, Oh, God! — 2

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Best of the Decade:
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