1970 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Conformist (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci)

2. The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (dir: Elio Petri)

3. The Cremator (dir: Juraj Herz; international release date)

4. My Night at Maud's (dir: Eric Rohmer; US Release Date)

5. Five Easy Pieces (dir: Bob Rafelson)

6. Donkey Skin (dir: Jacques Demy)

7. The Honeymoon Killers (dir: Leonard Kastle)

8. The Lickerish Quartet (dir: Radley Metzger)

9. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (dir: Russ Meyer)

10. Diary of a Mad Housewife (dir: Frank Perry)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Army of Shadows (dir: Jean-Pierre Melville; US Release Date), Catch-22 (dir: Mike Nichols), Deep End (dir: Jerzy Skolimowski), The Garden of the Finzi Continis (dirL Vittorio de Sica), Gimme Shelter (dir: Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin), The Landlord (dir: Hal Ashby), The Passion of Anna (dir: Ingmar Bergman), M*A*S*H (dir: Robert Altman), The Puzzle of a Downfall Child (dir: Jerry Schatzberg), Ryan’s Daughter (dir: David Lean) and This Man Must Die (dir: Claude Chabrol; US Release Date)

Best Picture: The Conformist
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Producer: Maruizio Lodi-Fe
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Best Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist
2. Juraj Herz, The Cremator
3. Elio Petri, The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
4. Radley Metzger, The Lickerish Quartet
5. Jacques Demy, Donkey Skin

Best Actor:
Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces
2. Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist
3. George C. Scott, Patton
4. Peter Boyle, Joe
5. Richard Benjamin, Diary of a Mad Housewife

Best Actress:
Francois Fabian, My Night at Maud's
2. Faye Dunaway, Puzzle of a Downfall Girl
3. Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers
4. Carrie Snodgress, Diary of a Mad Housewife
5. Dominique Sanda, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Best Supporting Actor:
Frank Langella, Diary of a Mad Housewife
2. Melvyn Douglas, I Never Sang for My Father
3. Richard Castellano, Lovers and Other Strangers
4. Richard Jaeckel, Sometimes a Great Notion
5. Anthony Perkins, Catch-22

Best Supporting Actress:
Bibi Andersson, The Passion of Anna
2. Mary Jane Higby, The Honeymoon Killers
3. Lee Grant, The Landlord
4. Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H
5. Dominique Sanda, The Conformist

Best Original Screenplay: 
The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion — Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
2. My Night at Maud's – Eric Rohmer
3. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls — Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert
4. Five Easy Pieces — Carol Eastman and Bob Rafelson
5. The Passion of Anna — Ingmar Bergman

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
The Cremator — Juraj Herz and Ladislav Fuks
2. The Conformist — Bernardo Bertolucci
3. This Man Must Die — Claude Chabrol and Paul Gegauff
4. Donkey Skin — Jacques Demy
5. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis — Vittorio Bonicelli and Ugo Pierro

Best Cinematography:
The Conformist — Vittorio Storaro
2. The Cremator — Stanislav Milota
3. The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion — Luigi Kuveiller
4. Ryan’s Daughter — Frederick A. Young
5. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls — Fred J. Koenekamp

Best Film Editing: 
The Cremator — Jaromír Janácek
2. The Conformist — Franco Arcalli
3. The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion — Ruggero Mastroianni
4. Gimme Shelter — Joanne Burke, Robert Farren, Ellen Giffard, and Kent McKinney
5. The Lickerish Quartet — Amedeo Salfa

Best Original Score: 
The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion — Ennio Morricone
2. Ryan's Daughter — Maurice Jarre
3. Patton — Jerry Goldsmith
4. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls — Stu Phillips and Bob Stone
5. Donkey Skin — Michel Legrand

Best Production Design: 
The Lickerish Quartet — Enrico Sabbatini
2. Donkey Skin — Jacques Dugied
3. El Topo — Alejandro Jodorowsky and José Luis Garduño
4. Two Mules for Sister Sara — Jose Rodriguez Granada and Pablo Galvan
5. Ryan's Daughter — Stephen Grimes and Josie MacAvin

Best Costume Design:
Donkey Skin — Gitt Magrini
2. Cromwell — Nino Novarese
3. Ryan’s Daughter — Jocelyn Rickards
4. The Conformist — Gitt Magrini
5. El Topo — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Best Visual Effects:
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Best Sound:
Cromwell

Best Documentary Feature:
Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, Gimme Shelter

Best Animated Feature: 
Wolfgang Reitherman, The Aristocats 

Best Ensemble Cast:
M*A*S*H

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Leonard Kastle, The Honeymoon Killers

Best Ensemble Cast: 
M*A*S*H (dir: Robert Altman; in alphabetical order): David Arkin, Indus Arthur, Rene Auberjonois, Roger Brown, Gary Burghoff, Robert Duvall, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman (pictured), Michael Murray, Jo Ann Pflug, Tom Skeritt, Donald Sutherland (pictured) and Fred Williamson

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Tony Lo Bianco and Shirley Stoler in Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers

RECAP

W I N S :

The Conformist — 3,
The Cremator — 2, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion — 2, The Aristocats — 1, Cromwell — 1, Diary of a Mad Housewife — 1, Donkey Skin — 1, Five Easy Pieces – 1, Gimme Shelter — 1, The Honeymoon Killers — 1, The Lickerish Quartet— 1, M*A*S*H* — 1, My Night at Maud’s — 1, The Passion of Ana — 1, Tora! Tora! Tora! — 1

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

The Conformist — 8,
Donkey Skin — 6, The Cremator — 5, Diary of a Mad Housewife — 5, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls — 4, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion— 5, The Honeymoon Killers – 4, The Lickerish Quartet — 4, Ryan’s Daughter — 4, Five Easy Pieces — 3, My Night at Maud’s — 3, Cromwell — 1, El Topo — 2, The Garden of Finzi-Continis — 2, Gimme Shelter — 2, M*A*S*H*— 2, The Passion of Ana — 2, Patton — 2

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Best of the Decade:
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