Academy Award Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay: '70s edition

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Apocalypse Now - John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola 6
The Godfather - Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola 6
The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry & Peter Bogdanovich 3
Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick 3
That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel & Jean-Claude Carrière 3
Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks 3
The Last Detail - Robert Towne 2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman & Laurence Hauben 2
The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo 1
A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick 1
Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell 1
Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent 1
Voyage of the Damned - David Butler & Steve Shagan 0
Julia - Alvin Sargent 0
Equus - Peter Shaffer 0
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer 0
Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini & Bernardino Zapponi 0
Serpico - Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler 0
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert & Lewis John Carlino 0
Norma Rae - Harriet Frank, Jr. & Irving Ravetch 0
A Little Romance - Allan Burns 0
La Cage aux folles - Marcello Danon, Edouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret & Francis Veber 0
Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton 0
Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade 0
Heaven Can Wait - Elaine May & Warren Beatty 0
California Suite - Neil Simon 0
Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman 0
Midnight Express - Oliver Stone 0
Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart 0
All the President's Men - William Goldman 0
The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon 0
The Emigrants - Bengt Forslund & Jan Troell 0
Cabaret - Jay Presson Allen 0
The Garden of the Finzi Continis - Ugo Pirro & Vittorio Bonicelli 0
The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci 0
The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman 0
Women in Love - Larry Kramer 0
Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman & Renée Taylor 0
I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson 0
Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein 0
Sounder - Lonne Elder III 0
Profumo - di donna Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi 0
The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston & Gladys Hill 0
MASH - Ring Lardner Jr. 0
Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn 0
Lenny - Julian Barry 0
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Lionel Chetwynd & Mordecai Richler 0
The Paper Chase - James Bridges 0
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty 0
Airport - George Seaton 0


The Young And The Breastless (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 February 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)

clockwork orange vs young frankenstein vs apocalypse now. tough one.

inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Monday, 11 February 2013 21:40 (twelve years ago)

The Godfathers, I guess, for how much of an improvement they're supposed to be on the source material (which I haven't read--and I'm sure that's true of a number of films here), and also All the President's Men, because I think the general feeling was that there wasn't a film there. (Actually going to a theatre to see GFII tonight.)

clemenza, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:07 (twelve years ago)

Take the cannoli

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:33 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, "Godfathers," because the source material is crap (see also: "Jaws;" perfect script from an imperfect source).

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:30 (twelve years ago)

I'll stick with The Conformist, despite the bizarre psychosexual politics.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:43 (twelve years ago)

I inclined to vote not for the best film per se, but what I see as the best script, and moreso the best job of adaptation from the material at hand. Therefore, The Godfather.

Aimless, Monday, 11 February 2013 23:49 (twelve years ago)

counting the garden scene btwn Vito and Michael in The Godfather, that's another entry for Robert Towne.

tho i prefer I AM THE MOTHERFUCKING SHORE PATROL, MOTHERFUCKER!

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:54 (twelve years ago)

also it wd be interesting if everyone voting mentioned how many they've seen.

geez, how many times will Eric vote for The Sunshine Boys?

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)

think i might vote for 'cuckoo's nest,' which i might kind of prefer to kesey's novel (tho it's been years for both).

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 11 February 2013 23:57 (twelve years ago)

I like the movie, but hell, not in the top 10. Too didactically Free Spirit vs The Man (Nurse).

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

IIRC that's actually more true of the novel! forman humanizes both characters.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:09 (twelve years ago)

the last detail over the godfather, young frankenstein

haven't seen never sang for my father, lovers and other strangers, women in love, the emigrants, pete 'n' tillie, duddy kravitz, profumo, i never promised you a rose garden, voyage of the damned, bloodbrothers, a little romance. only one i'm curious about is duddy kravitz.

haven't seen fellini's casanova in forever but i seem to recall it being awful? and i generally have time for alot of later fellini.

balls, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:24 (twelve years ago)

haven't seen fellini's casanova in forever but i seem to recall it being awful?

― balls, Monday, February 11, 2013 7:24 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u recall correctly

johnny crunch, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:46 (twelve years ago)

not awful.

Duddy Kravitz is pretty terrific, w/ pre-unbearable Dreyfuss.

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:56 (twelve years ago)

my top 3 here might be Barry Lyndon, Cabaret, That Obscure Object of Desire

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:58 (twelve years ago)

No way is the movie or its script better than Kesey's novel.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:59 (twelve years ago)

Going to be hard not to vote for Buñuel here, even though Discreet Charm would've been an easier bet.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:01 (twelve years ago)

That Obscure... is the only overrated Don Luis film: the script is sharp, the direction too damn serene.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)

(Oh, duh, that was original.)

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)

Last Picture Show

Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:15 (twelve years ago)

this is pretty cool if you're a big fan of All The President's Men; Bob and Carl liked the film plenty but they had a few notes for Redford

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/woodstein/apm/images/redfordmemo_scan.jpg

piscesx, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:41 (twelve years ago)

I think Apocalypse Now is ingenious as an adaptation of Heart of Darkness--or basically just a great example of the choice of source material itself carrying so much interpretive weight. Barry Lyndon is my favorite movie here, but I haven't read the novel so I don't know its relationship to the novel.

ryan, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:55 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, if we're judging based on the relationship between the source material and the adaptation, I think I have to go with The Exorcist just for Friedkin so successfully trolling Blatty into making a movie so at odds with the author's intentions.

Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:03 (twelve years ago)

I love Barry Lyndon but I'd just assume that it's greatness was all a result of the direction (haven't read the novel either).

Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:05 (twelve years ago)

I've read some of the novel; it's much more picaresque and Barry narrates it.

Stop judging by whether you know the fucking source material -- I'm guessing you didn't see Cabaret on Broadway in the late '60s either. Of course, in many cases we don't know what was in the screenplay. Apparently Frank Pierson's Dog Day Afternoon script was heavily improv'd off as well, but the story was there. (which obv makes this all a bit of a wankfest)

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:37 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 10 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

are you a poll assassin?

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 March 2013 00:22 (twelve years ago)


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