1975: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

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. The Man Who Would Be King (dir: John Huston)

8. Hard Times (dir: Walter Hill)

9. Identikit (dir: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi; US Release Date)

10. Belladonna of Sadness (dir: Eiichi Yamamoto; International 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), Hester Street (dir: Joan Micklin Silver), Inserts (dir: John Byrum), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (dir: Rainier Werner Fassbinder), Night Moves (dir: Arthur Penn), The Passenger (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir: Jim Sharman), Shampoo (dir: Hal Ashby) and Vampyres (dir: Joseph Larraz; US Release Date)

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

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

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

Best Actress:
Elizabeth Taylor, Identikit
2. Brigitte Mira, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
3. Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H.
4. Ann-Margret, Tommy
5. Romy Schneider, The Most Important Thing: Love

Best Supporting Actor:
Michael Caine, The Man Who Would Be King
2. Donald Sutherland, The Day of the Locust
3. Jack Warden, Shampoo
4. James Coburn, Hard Times
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:
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

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:
The Man Who Would Be King — Alexander Trauner
2. The Day of the Locust — Richard Macdonald, George Hopkins and Rick Simpson
3. Tommy — John Clark
4. Barry Lyndon — Ken Adam and Roy Walker
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 (casting directors: Jane Feinberg and Mike Fenton) starring (in alphabetical order) Luana Anders, Warren Beatty (pictured), Tony Bill, Julie Christie, Carrie Fisher, George Furth, Lee Grant (pictured), Goldie Hawn (pictured), Susanna Moore, Jay Robinson, Mike Olton, Randy Scheer, 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 — 2, The Man Who Would Be King — 2, Belladonna of Sadness — 1, Dog Day Afternoon — 1, The Great Waldo Pepper — 1, Grey Gardens — 1, Hard Times — 1, The Hindenburg — 1, Identikit — 1, Nashville — 1, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — 1, The Rocky Horror Picture Show — 1, Seven Beauties — 1, Shampoo — 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 — 5, The Great Waldo Pepper — 4, Hard Times — 4, The Man Who Would Be King — 4, Shampoo — 4, The Day of the Locust — 3, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser — 3, The Rocky Horror Picture Show — 3, Tommy — 3, Nashville — 2, Belladonna of Sadness — 2, Identikit — 2, Inserts — 2

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