1977's Oscar Nominees

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I liked Star Wars in 1977; never saw it a second time, never saw any of the sequels.

Annie Hall easily. My other favourite American films that year would be Stroszek, Saturday Night Fever, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Between the Lines, and Close Encounters. But not 3 Women.

(Added Stroszek at the last second, so delete "American.")

The goodbye girl is really some shit

They got this one right

Among their 5 solidest choices (for the win, not the nominations).

My nominees (feature films/non-doc/no idea if they were eligible for real):

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
Desperate Living (John Waters)
House (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)
Suspiria (Dario Argento)
3 Women (Robert Altman)

The Goodbye Girl appalled me when I finally saw it a decade ago. I expected an innocuous comedy but instead got a piece of treacle that thinks it's adorable.

Truly nothing worse than late '70s Neil Simon movies. Nothing.

Mike Nichols started shooting an earlier version of The Goodbye Girl starring Robert de Niro, and shut it down after a week because it wasn't working. So Simon rewrote it! We got the improved version.

John Belushi did a really wicked TGG takedown on SNL when Dreyfuss hosted in '78.

http://www.indiewire.com/2014/12/when-mike-nichols-fired-robert-de-niro-excerpt-from-de-niro-a-life-66703/

Truly nothing worse than late '70s Neil Simon movies.

Giallos.

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Woah, almost missed this one!

Predictably, I'm voting Annie Hall and Star Wars. Haven't seen the other three--don't even know anything about Julia or The Turning Point--but I'm gonna go ahead and say with some confidence that the Academy blew it by not nominating 3 Women or Close Encounters.

Julia is a mothballed prestige picture by Fred Zinneman that I tried rewatching a year ago when Netflix streamed it. Vanessa Redgrave is luminous, though, and I expected she and Fonda's Lilian Hellmann to have wild sex.

As an example of how Things Have Changed, Julia was #1 at the box office for weeks.

i watched goodbye girl like last yr, it has not aged well particularly the richard iii production where dreyfuss is urged to play it gay

Few Oscar nominees offend me as much as TGG. It exacerbates its offenses with cuteness in a manner that was dated in 1977.

I remember liking Julia but it was a long time ago. I seem to remember there was a controversy about the source material from Lillian Hellmann - she'd made up the story and passed it off as real. But Annie Hall wins this for me.

Predictably, I'm voting Annie Hall and over Star Wars.

Infamous for Redgrave's acceptance speech decrying "Zionist hoodlums":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcOsK9gRLk

Please let this one be a total blowout.

Comes down to "my favourite movie: Age 10 vs. age 18"

I used to get a bit too much pleasure telling fanboys that yes, Annie Hall was indeed better than Star Wars and then watching them go apoplectic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj_B5wblQC0

Utterly repellent.

i watched goodbye girl like last yr, it has not aged well particularly the richard iii production where dreyfuss is urged to play it gay

This formulation annoys me, bcz it assumes or pretends discerning people did not make the same criticisms in '77. They did. Its quality or lack thereof has diddly do to with 'aging' -- it was embraced or rejected for much the same reasons in its time, by different viewers.

btw in the mid '70s, Michael Moriarty played Richard III, per John Simon, as a "flaming homosexual" onstage at Lincoln Center (opposite Marsha Mason!), so presumably Neil Simon was parodying this.

Vincent Canby in the NYT, Dec '77: "exhausting without being much fun" and "relentlessly wisecracked."

Nice title song, still.

I had to look up two of these

the poll winner is obvious

not nominated! "You Light Up My Life" won, ye gods

xp

Herbert Ross directed TGG and TTP. He was nominated for Turning Point, Spielberg got the fifth director nomination (his first).

My windows into adult life as a 7-year-old were The Goodbye Girl and Foul Play.

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Come on out, Goodbye Girl, so I can lisp Shakespeare in your ears and throw pigeon shit on you.

Not a blowout, but acceptable.

This is surely the worst list from the '70s. I saw Julia at the time, remember nothing. Happy to say I skipped The Turning Point.

Never even heard of The Turning Point. It's interesting these films that are huge at the time then disappear without a trace

Nobody's ever seen The Turning Point. Agree that this is the worst of the '70s.

I saw the The Turning Point. It's better than, oh, a lot of talking-heads documentaries.

(also has a v hot Baryshnikov)

that's a blowout, Eric.

also, Turning Point has a climactic slapfight between Bancroft and MacLaine on a Lincoln Center rooftop! What more do you want from a ballet melodrama?

That and a v hot Baryshnikov will do just fine for second place here.