The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Rocky. Do I really have to say anything about how wrong this was?
... when it should have gone to ...
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| All the President's Men |
Best Picture, 1976
Awards presented March 28, 1977
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Rocky. Do I really have to say anything about how wrong this was?
... when it should have gone to ...
Gripping, fascinating movie with a story whose ending everyone knew, yet it kept them on the edge of their seats. The honors go to William Goldman's screenplay (which won) and Alan Jay Pakula's direction (which lost, disgustingly, to John G. Avildsen's work on Rocky), for giving a complex story clarity and maintaining an extraordinary level of suspense and paranoia. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman are terrific, their different acting styles suggesting the underlying tension between Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, but neither was nominated. Nor was, once again, the endlessly eloquent cinematography of Gordon Willis. This is one of the essential American stories, and watching it today reminds us that it was trying to teach us a lesson that we haven't yet learned. This was the year of Network and Taxi Driver, too -- which only makes the Academy's choice more confounding.
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Rocky. Do I really have to say anything about how wrong this was?
... when it should have gone to ...
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