Favourite Films and Awards: 1977

Comments, suggestions and recommendations welcome.

All release dates were IMDb accurate at the time that I saw the films in question, but we all know how much IMDb likes to play with release dates, so please let me know if anything is wrong.

Feel free to post your own awards too and suggest other years for me to look at next.

Best Film


• 3 Women
• Annie Hall
• The Last Wave
• Opening Night 
• Saturday Night Fever


Best Directing



• 3 Women --- Robert Altman

• Annie Hall --- Woody Allen

• The Last Wave --- Peter Weir

• Opening Night --- John Cassavetes

• Suspiria --- Dario Agento



Best Leading Male Performance



• Annie Hall --- Woody Allen

• Equus --- Richard Burton

• The Goodbye Girl --- Richard Dreyfuss

• Saturday Night Fever --- John Travolta

• Why Shoot the Teacher? --- Bud Cort



Best Leading Female Performance



• 3 Women --- Shelley Duvall

• Desperate Living --- Mink Stole

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden --- Kathleen Quinlan

• Maladolescenza --- Lara Wendel

• Opening Night --- Gena Rowlands



Best Supporting Male Performance



• Candleshoe --- David Niven

• Equus --- Peter Firth

• Julia --- Maximilian Schell

• The Kentucky Fried Movie --- Jeff Maxwell

• Rollercoaster --- Timothy Bottoms



Best Supporting Female Performance



• 3 Women --- Sissy Spacek

• High Anxiety --- Cloris Leachman

• Roseland --- Teresa Wright

• The Turning Point --- Leslie Browne

• Widows' Nest --- Patricia Neal



Best Original Screenplay



• 3 Women --- Robert Altman

• Citizens Band --- Paul Brickman

• The Last Wave --- Peter Weir; Tony Morphett; Petru Popescu

• Martin --- George A. Romero

• Welcome to Blood City --- Stephen Schneck; Michael Winder



Best Adapted Screenplay



• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden --- Gavin Lambert; Lewis John Carlino

• Nasty Habits --- Robert Enders

• Semi-Tough --- Walter Bernstein

• Shatranj Ke Khilari --- Satiyajit Ray; Javed Siddiqui; Shama Zaidi

• Why Shoot the Teacher? --- James Defelice



Best Cinematography



• 3 Women --- Charles Rosher Jr.

• Alice ou la Dernière Fugue --- Jean Rabier

• The Deep --- Christopher Challis

• The Garden --- Valery Galprin

• Summerfield --- Mike Molloy



Best Film Editing



• Annie Hall --- Ralph Rosenblum; Wendy Greene Bricmont

• The Gauntlet --- Joel Cox; Ferris Webster

• Golgo 13 --- Yukio Noda

• The Turning Point --- William Reynolds

• Twilight's Last Gleaming --- Michael Luciano; William Martin; Maury Winetrobe



Best Original Music Score



• 3 Women --- Gerald Busby

• Der Amerikanische Freund --- Jürgen Knieper

• Capricorn One --- Jerry Goldsmith

• Islands in the Stream --- Jerry Goldsmith

• Twilight's Last Gleaming --- Jerry Goldsmith



Best Adapted Music Design



• The Duellists

• Looking for Mr. Goodbar

• Roseland

• September 30, 1955

• L'Uomo, la Donna e la Bestia



Best Art Direction and Set Décor



• Capricorn One

• Le Couple Témoin

• Eraserhead

• The Spy Who Loved Me

• Valentino


Best Costume Design



• Cinderella

• Le Couple Témoin

• The Duellists

• Saturday Night Fever

• Valentino



Best Sound Design



• 3 Women

• Demon Seed

• Eraserhead

• The Last Wave

• Martin



Best Special Effects



• Capricorn One

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• The Last Remake of Beau Geste

• The Last Wave

• Star Wars



Best Makeup Effects



• Candleshoe

• The Island of Dr. Moreau

• Rabid

• The Sentinel

• Star Wars


Best Original Song in a Film



• Cinderella --- "Do It!"

• The Late Show --- "What Was"

• Outlaw Blues --- "Outlaw Blues"

• The Spy Who Loved Me --- "Nobody Does It Better"

• The World's Greatest Lover --- "Ain't It Kinda Wonderful"


Selected from the following 98 feature films:

3 Women

ABBA: The Movie

Alice ou la Dernière Fugue

Der Amerikanische Freund

Annie Hall

Are You Being Served?

Audrey Rose

Backroads

The Billion Dollar Hobo

The Black Panther

Black Sunday

Candleshoe

Capricorn One

The Car

The Chicken Chronicles

The Children of Theatre Street

The Choirboys

Cinderella

Citizens Band / Handle with Care

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Le Couple Témoin

Le Crabe-Tambour

The Deep

Demon Seed

Desperate Living

Diabolo Menthe

The Disappearance

The Domino Principle

The Duellists

Eaten Alive

Equus

Eraserhead

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Fun with Dick and Jane

The Garden

The Gauntlet

Golden Rendezvous

Golgo 13

The Goodbye Girl

Grand Theft Auto

The Haunting of Julia / Full Circle

Haunts

High Anxiety

House

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Islands in the Stream

Jabberwocky

Julia

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Wave

The Late Show

Die Liebesbriefe einer Portugiesischen Nonne

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

MacArthur

Maladolescencza

The Mango Tree

Martin

Nasty Habits

Oh, God!

Opening Night

The Other Side of Midnight

Outlaw Blues

The Picture Show Man

Providence

Rabid

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

Rollercoaster

Rolling Thunder

Roseland

Ruby

Saturday Night Fever

Semi-Tough

The Sentinel

September 30, 1955

The Serpent's Egg

Seven Nights in Japan

Shatranj Ke Khilari
/ The Chess Players
Shock

Slap Shot

The Spy Who Loved Me

Star Wars

The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It

Summerfield

Suspiria

Telefon

The Turning Point

Twilight's Last Gleaming

The Uncanny

L'Uomo, la Donna e la Bestia

Valentino

Welcome to Blood City

Which Way is Up?

Why Shoot the Teacher?

Widows' Nest

Wombling Free

The World's Greatest Lover