1976: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Network (dir: Sidney Lumet)

2. Taxi Driver (dir: Martin Scorsese)

3. Bound for Glory (dir: Hal Ashby)

4. Emma Mae (dir: Jamaa Fanaka)

5. Picnic at Hanging Rock (dir: Peter Weir; US Release Date)

6. The Tenant (dir: Roman Polanski)

7. The Assault on Precinct 13 (dir: John Carpenter)

8. Mikey and Nicky (dir: Elaine May)

9. Carrie (dir: Brian De Palma)

10. Keetje Tippel (dir: Paul Verhoeven)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 1900 (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci), All the President’s Men (dir: Alan J. Pakula), The Bad News Bears (dir: Michael Ritchie), Chinese Roulette (dir: Rainier Werner Fassbinder), Cria Cuervos (dir: Carlos Saura), Fellini’s Casanova (dir: Federico Fellini), God Told Me To (dir: Larry Cohen), Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir: Barbara Kopple), Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (dir: Alain Tanner), Mr. Klein (dir: Joseph Losey), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (dir: John Cassavetes), The Man Who Fell to Earth (dir: Nicolas Roeg), Obsession (dir: Brian De Palma), The Outlaw Josey Wales (dir: Clint Eastwood), A Real Young Girl (dir: Catherine Breillat), and Rocky (dir: John G. Avildsen)

Best Picture: Network
Director: Sidney Lumet Producer: Howard Gottfried
US Distributor: MGM

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
2. Sidney Lumet, Network
3. Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
5. Jamaa Fanaka, Emma Mae

Best Actor:
Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver
2. David Carradine, Bound for Glory
3. Sylvester Stallone, Rocky
4. Ben Gazzara, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
5. William Holden, Network

Best Actress:
Faye Dunaway, Network
2. Monique van de Ven, Keetje Tippel
3. Jerri Hayes, Emma Mae
4. Sissy Spacek, Carrie
5. Liv Ullmann, Face to Face

Best Supporting Actor:
Peter Finch, Network
2. Ned Beatty, Network
3. Jason Robards, All the President’s Men
4. Burgess Meredith, Rocky
5. Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Bound for Glory

Best Supporting Actress:
Piper Laurie, Carrie
2. Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver
3. Rose Arrick, Mikey and Nicky
4. Beatrice Straight, Network
5. Dominique Sanda, 1900

Best Original Screenplay:
Network — Paddy Chayefsky
2. Taxi Driver — Paul Schrader
3. Mikey and Nicky — Elaine May
4. The Bad News Bears — Bill Lancaster
5. Chinese Roulette — Rainier Werner Fassbinder

Best Adapted Screenplay:
All the President's Men — William Goldman
2. The Tenant — Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski
3. Keetje Tippel — Gerard Soeteman
4. Bound for Glory — Robert Getchell
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales — Philip Kaufman and Sonia Chernus

Best Cinematography:
Bound for Glory — Haskell Wexler
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock — Russell Boyd
3. The Tenant — Sven Nykvist
4. Obsession — Vilmos Zsigmond
5. The Man Who Fell to Earth — Anthony Richmond

Best Film Editing:
Assault on Precinct 13 — John Carpenter
2. Taxi Driver — Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro
3. Network — Alan Heim
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock – Max Lemon
5. All the President’s Men — Robert L. Wolfe

Best Original Score:
Taxi Driver — Bernard Herrmann
2. Rocky — Bill Conti
3. Assault on Precinct 13 — John Carpenter
4. Carrie — Pino Donaggio
5. Emma Mae — H.B. Barnum

Best Production Design: 
1900 — Maria Paola Maino Gianni Quaranta
2. Mr. Klein — Alexandre Trauner, Pierre Charron and Gerard James
3. Logan's Run — Dale Hennesy and Robert De Vestel
4. Bugsy Malone — Geoffrey Kirkland and Harry Cordwell
5. Bound for Glory — Michael Haller and James Berkey

Best Costume Design:
1900 — Gitt Magrini
2. Keetje Tippel — Robert Bos
3. Fellini’s Casanova — Danilo Donati
4. Bugsy Malone — Monica Howe
5. Bound for Glory — William Theiss

Best Visual Effects:
King Kong

Best Sound:
Rocky

Best Documentary Feature:
Barbara Kopple, Harlan County, U.S.A.

Best Animated Feature:
Ivo Caprino, The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

Best Ensemble Cast:
Chinese Roulette

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Fred Schepisi, The Devil’s Playground

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Chinese Roulette (dir: Rainier Werner Fassbinder; in alphabetical order): Alexander Allerson, Margit Carstensen (pictured), Anna Karina (pictured), Ulli Lommel, Macha Méril, Brigitte Mira, Audra Schober, Volker Spengler

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Fred Schepisi, The Devil's Playground

RECAP

W I N S :

Network — 4,
Taxi Driver — 3, 1900 — 2, All the President’s Men — 1, The Assault on Precinct 13 — 1, Bound for Glory — 1, Carrie — 1, Chinese Roulette — 1, The Devil’s Playground — 1, Harlan County, U.S.A. — 1, King Kong — 1, The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix — 1, Rocky — 1

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

Network — 9,
Bound for Glory — 8, Taxi Driver — 7, All the President’s Men — 4, Emma Mae — 4, Keetje Tippel — 4, Picnic at Hanging Rock — 4, Rocky — 4, 1900 — 3, The Assault on Precinct 13 — 3, Carrie — 3, Mikey and Nicky — 3, The Tenant — 3, Bugsy Malone — 2, Chinese Roulette – 2

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