1975: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Barry Lyndon (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

2. Jaws (dir: Steven Spielberg)

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

4. Seven Beauties (dir: Lina Wertmüller)

5. Dog Day Afternoon (dir: Sidney Lumet)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Ensemble Cast:
Shampoo

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

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 — 5,
Jaws — 3, Hard Times — 2, Belladonna of Sadness — 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, Tommy— 1

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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