Your Favourite Performances from 1929 to present are...

[LawrenceA]

Terrific bunch of performances, Lawrence.  I had to look up the two listed above who sadly passed away not too long ago.  I had no idea that 'Mountain Man' from Deliverance was such a prolific actor.

 

Yeah, Bill McKinney was in a lot of films and TV. Often he was a lot more cleaned up in appearance, but he almost always radiated an intensity that worked for heavies or mean cops or backwoods types. Listen to the commentary on Deliverance to learn just how much McKinney scared everyone on the set, even Burt Reynolds who was used to eccentric rural types.

 

McKinney in Deliverance

 

 

and his "cleaned up" appearance

 

 

 

Stefan Gierasch was an actor whose face I recognized immediately, but never put a name to for many years. Often playing fussy curmudgeons, pawnbrokers, bankers or other mean-spirited authority types, his turn as a fellow fur-trapper in Jeremiah Johnson was noticeably different for him, and I thought he was very good.

 

Gierasch (left) with co-star Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson

 

 

 

Stefan Gierasch with his more common screen look

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Best Actor: Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris

Best Actress: Harriett Anderson –Cries and Whispers

Best Supporting Actor: Marlon Brando –The Godfather

Best Supporting Actress: Susan Tyrell –Fat City

[TomJH]

Yeah, Bill McKinney was in a lot of films and TV. Often he was a lot more cleaned up in appearance, but he almost always radiated an intensity that worked for heavies or mean cops or backwoods types. Listen to the commentary on Deliverance to learn just how much McKinney scared everyone on the set, even Burt Reynolds who was used to eccentric rural types.

 

McKinney in Deliverance

 

 

 

McKinney certainly was convincing in Deliverance. He was so effective, in fact, that I almost walked out on the film when I saw it at the show in 1972 during that scene. Long after seeing the film my brain was still re-playing his call to squeal like a pig.

 

A friend of mine accompanying me to the theatre stared at the floor during the McKinney scene and just said, "Tell me when it's over." We were such sensitive souls. That scene played a large role in my decision to never take a canoe trip through mountain folk territory.

[Swithin]

1972 Favorites

I love Anne Francine’s performance in Merchant/Ivory’s Savages. She is my only supporting actress choice for 1972.

 

Best Actor

 

Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)

Marlon Brando (The Godfather)

Klaus Kinski (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)

Peter O’Toole (The Ruling Class)

Michael Sacks (Slaughterhouse-Five)

 

Best Actress

 

Hattie Jacques (Carry On Matron)

Liza Minelli (Cabaret)

Delphine Seyrig (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)

Janet Suzman (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)

Joanne Woodward (The Effect of Gamma Rays in Man-of-the-Moon Marigolds)

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

Richard Castellano (The Godfather)

Joel Grey (Cabaret)

Trevor Howard (Ludwig)

Alastair Sim (The Ruling Class)

Abe Vigoda (The Godfather)

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

Anne Francine (Savages)

 

 

Best Animal Performers

The marmosets (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)

 

Best Music Scenes

 

Ce’ la Luna (The Godfather)

Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet (Slaughterhouse-Five)

Largo from J.S. Bach’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (Slaughterhouse-Five)

Let’s Misbehave (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex)

Stepping on the Spaniel (Savages)

The Varsity Drag (The Ruling Class)

 

Best Lines

 

“He has always pressed it, and he always will. We have always let him, and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way." (Tralfamadorian speaker, Slaughterhouse-Five)

 

“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” (Richard Castellano, The Godfather)

 

"Is that a way to bring up a boy? He'll be a lesbian!" (Sylvia Miles, Heat)

 

Best Feathers

 

The Valley Obscured by Clouds

 

 

 

[LawrenceA]

I've seen 165 movies from 1972, and Swithin alone manages to list 7 already that I haven't seen! 

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 123 films I've seen from 1972 for…

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1972

 

1.  SUSAN TYRRELL (Oma Lee Greer), Fat City

2.  SHARON GANS (Valencia Merble Pilgrim), Slaughterhouse-Five

3.  JEANNIE BERLIN (Lila Ina Kolodny), The Heartbreak Kid

4.  IDA LUPINO (Elvira "Ellie" Bonner), Junior Bonner

5.  TALIA SHIRE (Constanzia ‘Connie’ Corleone Rizzi), The Godfather

 

6.  EILEEN HECKART (Mrs. Baker), Butterflies Are Free

7.  MARISA BERENSON (Natalia Landauer), Cabaret

8.  MARIANGELA MELATO (Fiorella Meneghini), The Seduction of Mimi

9.  JULIA ANNE ROBINSON (Jessica), The King of Marvin Gardens

10. ELENA FIORE (Amalia Finocchiaro), The Seduction of Mimi

 

and...

 

CANDY CLARK (Faye), Fat City

VALERIE PERRINE (Montana Wildhack), Slaughterhouse-Five

HOLLY NEAR (Barbara Pilgrim), Slaughterhouse-Five

SUSAN ANSPACH (Nancy Felix), Play It Again, Sam

KAREN CARLSON (Nancy McKay), The Candidate

CYBILL SHEPHERD (Kelly Corcoran), The Heartbreak Kid

MORGANA KING (Mama Carmela Corleone), The Godfather

MARIA MICHI (Rosa’s Mother), Last Tango In Paris

ROBERTA WALLACH (Ruth Hunsdorfer), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-the-Moon Marigolds

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 123 films I've seen from 1972 for…

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1972

 

1.  MARLON BRANDO ("Don" Vito Corleone/'Vito Andolini'), The Godfather

2.  PAUL WINFIELD (Nathan Lee Morgan), Sounder

3.  RON LEIBMAN (Paul Lazzaro), Slaughterhouse-Five

4.  ROBERT PRESTON (Ace Bonner), Junior Bonner

5.  PETER BOYLE (Marvin “Luke” Lucas), The Candidate

 

6.  EUGENE ROCHE (Edgar Derby), Slaughterhouse-Five

7.  NED BEATTY (Robert Trippe/"Bobby"/"Chubby"), Deliverance

8.  JAMES CAAN (Santino 'Sonny' Corleone), The Godfather

9.  GENE WILDER (Dr. Doug Ross), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but Were               Afraid to Ask

10. AL LETTIERI (Virgil “the Turk” Sollozzo), The Godfather

 

and...

 

JOEL GREY (“Master of Ceremonies”), Cabaret

ROBERT DUVALL (Tom Hagen), The Godfather

BURT REYNOLDS (Lewis Medlock), Deliverance

EDDIE ALBERT (Duane Corcoran), The Heartbreak Kid

JOHN MARLEY (Jack Woltz), The Godfather

ROBERT SHAW (Lord Randolph Churchill), Young Winston

EDDIE AXBERG (Axel Robert Nilsson), The New Land

RICHARD CASTELLANO (Peter Clemenza), The Godfather

JOE DON BAKER (Curly Bonner), Junior Bonner

LOU GOSSETT, JR. (Zachary Wordsworth), Travels With My Aunt

RONNY COX (Drew Ballinger), Deliverance

DON PORTER (Senator Crocker Jarmon), The Candidate

TONY ROBERTS (Dick Christie), Play It Again, Sam

WILL GEER ("Bear Claw” Chris Lapp), Jeremiah Johnson

NICHOLAS COLASANTO (Ruben), Fat City

ALLEN GARFIELD (Howard Klein), The Candidate

ALEX ROCCO (Moe Green), The Godfather

JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD (Thomas), Last Tango In Paris

JOHN CAZALE (Frederico 'Fredo' Corleone), The Godfather

LOU JACOBI (Sam Musgrave) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid               to Ask

KEVIN CONWAY (Roland Weary), Slaughterhouse-Five

GIANNI RUSSO (Carlo Rizzi), The Godfather

WAYNE MAHAN (Buford), Fat City

STERLING HAYDEN (Capt. McCluskey), The Godfather

[skimpole]

Actor

Al Pacino,  The Godfather
Klaus Kinski, Aguirre:  the Wrath of God
Fernando Rey, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Jack Lemmon, Avanti!
Jack Nicholson, The King of Marvin Gardens

Runner-ups:  Donatas Banionis (Solaris), Steve McQueen (The Getaway), Bruce Dern (The King of Marvin Gardens), Jon Finch (Frenzy), Divine (Pink Flamingos), Bernard Verley (Chloe in the Afternoon), Gian Maria Volonte (The Mattei Affair), Max von Sydow (The Emigrants), Woody Allen (Play it Again, Sam), Yves Montand (Tout va Bien), Jimmy Cliff (The Harder They Come), Woody Allen (Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex* [*But Were Afraid to Ask]), Michael York (Cabaret), Joszef Madaras, (Red Psalm), Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class), Laurence Olivier (Sleuth), Burt Lancaster (Ulzana's Raid)
 
Actress

Liza Minnelli, Cabaret
Harriet Andersson, Cries and Whispers
Liv Ullmann, The Emigrants
Ellen Burstyn, The King of Marvin Gardens
Stephane Audran, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Ali MacGraw, The Getaway
 

Runner-ups: Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), Hanna Shygulla (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), Zouzou (Chloe in the Afternoon), Jane Fonda (Tout va Bien), Juliet Mills (Avanti!), Cicily Tyson (Sounder), Barbra Streisand (What's Up Doc), Meena Kumari (Pakeezah)

 

Supporting Actor: 

Robert Duvall, The Godfather
Joel Grey, Cabaret
Marlon Brando, The Godfather
Anatoly Solonitsyn, Solaris
James Caan, The Godfather

Runner-ups:  Julien Bertheau (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), Nikolai Grinko (Solaris), Burt Reynolds (Deliverance), Juri Jarvet (Solaris), Richard Castellano (The Godfather), Helmut Griem (Cabaret), Barry Foster (Frenzy), Alec McCowen (Frenzy), Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), Erland Josephson (Cries and Whispers), John Cazale (The Godfather), Paul Frankeur (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), Abe Vigoda (The Godfather), Al Lettieri (The Godfather), Sterling Hayden (The Godfather), Richard Conte (The Godfather), Alex Rocco (The Godfather), John Marley (The Godfather), Peter Berling (Aguirre, the Wrath of God), Gene Wilder (Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex* [*But Were Afraid to Ask])

Supporting Actress

Ingrid Thulin, Cries and Whispers
Liv Ullmann, Cries and Whispers
Natalya Bondarchuk, Solaris
Julia Ann Robinson, The King of Marvin Gardens
Delphine Seyrig, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Anna Massey, Frenzy
Vivien Merchant, Frenzy

Runner-ups:  Kari Sylwan (Cries and Whispers), Madeline Kahn (What's Up Doc?), Francoise Verley (Chloe in the Afternoon), Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid), Bulle Ogier (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), Carolyn Seymour (The Ruling Class), Cecilla Rivera (Aguirre, the Wrath of God),


Not seen:  Lady sings the Blues, Travels with my Aunt, Butterflies are Free, Pete 'n' Tillie

 

--------You may have noticed that there are six nominations for best actress and seven for best supporting actress.  This is not because the fields were so outstanding that I just had to have more nominations.  It's because the thread argues that Cries and Whispers is a 1972 film, when in my own alternate oscar universe it's a 1973 film.  In my own thread, Thulin is the best supporting actress of 1973, and Natalya Bondarchuk is the best supporting actress of 1972, and Andersson and Ullmann would have gotten 1973 nominations.  I haven't decided yet who would will be this thread's 1973 best supporting actress winner.

 

--------I have never seen Butterflies are Free, but looking it up on Wikipedia I find the title comes from a line that my moniker, Harold Skimpole, says in Bleak House.  Since it is the Goldie Hawn character who says this, and she's supposed to be the heroine, does anybody point out to her that Skimpole is not an admirable person.  I'm also reminded of a Peanuts cartoon, that came out sometime in the first half of the seventies, where Sally Brown is writing an essay for school.  "Butterflies are free.  What does that mean?  It means you can have all of them you want."

[kingrat]

Thanks to Bogey for mentioning the excellent Robert Preston, who effortlessly steals every scene in Junior Bonner in which he appears, just the way the character he plays steals his son's horse. It's distinctly odd to see Steve McQueen play a pathetic loser emasculated by his own father, and I'm not sure that's what Sam Peckinpah originally intended. Preston plays a bad boy who's still getting away with everything.

 

And thanks to Swithin for drawing attention to Richard Castellano, who for my taste gives the best performance in The Godfather. As I've said too many times, I don't care for Brando's gimmicks and fakery in this film.

 

For me, the best performance of the year, and possibly the decade, comes from Stacy Keach in Fat City, which would have my vote as best film of the year. I recently saw this again on the big screen and was stunned by both performance and film. The slow tracking shot of a smalltown street, over which Kris Kristofferson sings "Help Me Make It Through the Night," provides a powerful opening for one of John Huston's best films.

 

Bad romantic choices and unfulfillable dreams are what Fat City is all about. Could Stacy Keach make a worse choice than the loud, drunken, and volatile Oma, so believably played by Susan Tyrrell? Jeff Bridges is trapped in a small town and low-paying jobs by the pregnancy of his girlfriend (Candy Clark), but dropping out of school to marry him is an equally bad choice on her part, even if both of them are decent and likable people. Then there's the boxing coach, wonderfully played by Nicholas Colasanto, who can't help believing that every new boxer he meets is the one that will carry him to the big time.

 

What seems evident on second viewing is the way Huston doesn't push us to take a particular view of his characters. No one is condemned or pushed forward as a hero. Huston is content to observe, carefully, even, in a way, lovingly. Fat City could be seen as a downer; it's anything but a warm and fuzzy feel-good movie. However, the darkness of the film doesn't come from the anti-war misunderstood student smugly countercultural spirit which has made some of the films of this era seem dated. Fat City did not seem like a masterpiece to me when I saw it on first release, but it does today.

 

We may disagree about which movie scenes feel like real life. I have a friend who feels that way about Husbands, which to me seems as stylized and ersatz as Pillow Talk; the scene in Raging Bull where DeNiro forces his brother to say he slept with DeNiro's wife seems to me a superior version of the scenes from Husbands--it may not feel like real life, but Scorsese is a more talented director; and the opening scene of Fat City, where Keach gets out of bed and stares in the mirror, or the scene where Keach cooks dinner for Tyrrell and they fight are the ones which feel like real life to me.

[LawrenceA]

Supporting Actress

Anna Massey, Frenzy

Jeannie Berlin  The Heartbreak Kid

 

These 2 that you mention I should have had in my nominees as well. Bogie also listed Berlin. 

[Bogie56]

The New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1972 were …

 

Best Actor

Laurence Olivier, Sleuth*

Marlon Brando, The Godfather

James Mason, Child’s Play

 

Best Actress

Liv Ullmann, Cries and Whispers and The Emigrants (71)*

Cicely Tyson, Sounder

Janet Suzman, A Day In the Death of Joe Egg

Harriet Andersson, Cries and Whispers

 

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall, The Godfather*

Eddie Albert, The Heartbreak Kid

Robert Shaw, Young Winston

 

Best Supporting Actress

Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid*

Susan Tyrrell, Fat City

Ida Lupino, Junior Bonner

[CoraSmith]

ACTOR:

1. Al Pacino - The Godfather

2. Michael Caine - Sleuth

3. Laurence Olivier - Sleuth 

4. Woody Allen - Play It Again, Sam

5. Robert Redford - The Candidat

6. Jean Yanne - We Won't Grow Old Together

7. Jon Finch - Frenzy

8. Anthony Quinn - Across 110th Street

9. Simon Ward - Young Winston

10. Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris

ACTRESS:

1. Liza Minnelli - Cabaret

2. Margit Carstensen - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

3. Marlène Jobert - We Won't Grow Old Together
4. Sarah Miles - Lady Caroline Lamb

5. Diane Keaton - Play It Again, Sam
6. Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues

7. Judy Geeson - Fear in the Night

8. Maria Schneider - Last Tango in Paris

9. Liv Ullmann - Pope Joan

10. Barbra Streisand - What's Up, Doc? 

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Marlon Brando - The Godfather

2. Robert Duvall - The Godfather

3. Gene Wilder - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask

4. Barry Foster - Frenzy
5. Leslie Nielsen - The Poseidon Adventure

6. James Caan - The Godfather

7. Ninetto Davoli - The Canterbury Tales

8. Fritz Wepper - Cabaret

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Hanna Schygulla - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

2. Simonetta Stefanelli - The Godfather

3. Marisa Berenson - Cabaret

4. Talia Shire - The Godfather

5. Pamela Sue Martin - The Poseidon Adventure
6. Simi Garewal - Siddharta

7. Macha Méril - We Won't Grow Old Together

8. Louise Lasser - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: Jan Ohlsson - Nya hyss av Emil Lönneberga

BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Armenian sheep - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask

BEST EXTRA: Sofia Coppola as Connie's baby in The Godfather

ROLE WITH MOST DEPTH: Linda Lovelace - Deep Throat

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Charlotte Flemming - Cabaret

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street

BEST NOT ENTIRELY ORIGINAL SCORE: Nino Rota - The Godfather

BEST ORIGINAL SONGS: 

1. Ben (Michael Jackson in Ben)

2. Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye in Trouble Man)

3. Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack in Across 110th Street)

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONGS: 

1. Cabaret (Liza Minnelli in Cabaret)

2. If You Could See Her (Joel Grey in Cabaret)

BEST QUOTE: "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." (The Godfather)

[TomJH]

Thanks, kingrat, for your excellent review of Fat City.

 

I watched the film as it played on TCM a few years ago. A friend saw it with me and we were both mesmerized by the conviction of Susan Tyrrell's barfly portrayal. Go into any of a number of rundown, beat up looking bars and you'll find someone with the same anger issues, meanness and self hate this actress so skilfully portrayed.

 

I was stunned, too, by the eerie coincidence that when I looked up Tyrrell right afterward to find that this very tragic lady with a troubled life had died that very weekend.

[TomJH]

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[Bogie56]

Best Supporting Actress of 1972

 

1.  SUSAN TYRRELL (Oma Lee Greer), Fat City

 

Susan Tyrrell (1945-2012) in Fat City

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 123 films I've seen from 1972 for…

 

Best Actress of 1972

 

1.  CICELY TYSON (Rebecca Morgan), Sounder

2.  DIANA ROSS (“Billie Holiday”/”Lady Day”/Eleanora), Lady Sings the Blues

3.  LIV ULLMANN (Maria/Maria’s Mother), Cries and Whispers

4.  INGRID THULIN (Karin), Cries and Whispers

5.  LIV ULLMANN (Kristina Johansdotter Nilsson), The New Land

 

6.  LIZA MINNELLI (Sally Bowles), Cabaret

7.  SHIRLEY MACLAINE (Norah Benson), The Possession of Joel Delaney

8.  DIANE KEATON (Linda Christie), Play It Again, Sam

9.  MAGGIE SMITH (Augusta Bertram), Travels With My Aunt

10. MARIA SCHNEIDER (Jeanne), Last Tango In Paris

 

and...

 

OLGA BELLIN (Sarah Eubanks), Tomorrow

ELLEN BURSTYN (Sally), The King of Marvin Gardens

LINDA GORONSON (Ruth Lowe), The Rowdyman

SYLVIA MILES (Sally Todd), Heat

JOANNE WOODWARD (Beatrice Hunsdorfer), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-the-Moon                           Marigolds

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 123 films I've seen from 1972 for…

 

Best Actor of 1972

 

1.  MARLON BRANDO (Paul), Last Tango In Paris

2.  LAURENCE OLIVIER (Andrew Wyke), Sleuth

3.  MICHAEL CAINE (Milo Tindle/”Inspector Doppler”/”Det. Sgt. Tarrant”/”Constable Higgs”), Sleuth

4.  WOODY ALLEN (Allan Felix), Play It Again, Sam

5.  PETER O'TOOLE (Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney), The Ruling Class

 

6.  AL PACINO (Michael Corleone), The Godfather

7.  JON VOIGHT (Ed Gentry), Deliverance

8.  MAX VON SYDOW (Karl-Oskar Nilsson), The New Land

9.  STACY KEACH (Billy Tully), Fat City

10. ROBERT REDFORD (William “Bud” McKay), The Candidate

 

and ...

 

BILLY DEE WILLIAMS (Louis McKay), Lady Sings the Blues

GIANCARLO GIANNINI (Carmelo “Mimi” Mardocheo), The Seduction of Mimi

STEVE MCQUEEN (Junior "J.R." Bonner), Junior Bonner

JEFF BRIDGES (Jake Rumsey), Bad Company

FERNANDO REY (Raphael Acosta, ambassador of “Miranda”), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

KLAUS KINKSI (Don Lope de Aguirre), Aguirre, The Wrath of God

CHARLES GRODIN (Leonard Allan Cantrow), The Heartbreak Kid

ROBERT DUVALL (Jackson Fentry), Tomorrow

BRUCE DERN (Jason Staebler/”Jason Capone”), The King of Marvin Gardens

JACK NICHOLSON (David Staebler), The King of Marvin Gardens

SEAN CONNERY (Detective Sergeant Johnny Johnson), The Offence

BARRY BROWN (Drew Dixon), Bad Company

[LawrenceA]

SEAN CONNERY (Detective Sergeant Johnny Johnson), The Offence

 

 

I had this one listed with mine originally too, but I thought I had the year wrong, and when I rechecked with IMDb, it said 1973, with a January 11, 1973 premiere in the UK. Should it be 1972 after all, though? I ask, because it would be high up on my list.

[Bogie56]

I had this one listed with mine originally too, but I thought I had the year wrong, and when I rechecked with IMDb, it said 1973, with a January 11, 1973 premiere in the UK. Should it be 1972 after all, though? I ask, because it would be high up on my list.

Well spotted.  I saw it in 1994 and perhaps they didn't have the actual release date nailed down then.  Though wikipedia says it is a 1972 film it too gives a 1973 release date.  So, it shall now re-appear in my 1973 list!

CoraSmith also had it as a 1972 film.  

[Bogie56]

The National Board of Review Awards for 1972 were…

 

Best Actor

Peter O’Toole, The Ruling Class and Man of La Mancha* 

 

Best Actress

Cicely Tyson, Sounder*

 

Best Supporting Actors

Al Pacino, The Godfather*

Joel Grey Cabaret*

 

Best Supporting Actress

Marisa Berenson, Cabaret*

[LawrenceA]

Well spotted.  I saw it in 1994 and perhaps they didn't have the actual release date nailed down then.  Though wikipedia says it is a 1972 film it too gives a 1973 release date.  So, it shall now re-appear in my 1973 list!

CoraSmith also had it as a 1972 film.  

 

She sure does. I must have glanced past it on her list, as my eye was drawn to the one below it, We Won't Grow Old Together, as it's one I haven't heard of before.

 

When I first made my list, I used Wikipedia's "1972 in Film" page to look through the movies of the year, which is probably why I originally had it listed with my 1972 picks. 

 

I thought Connery was very good in The Offence, and I rank it as one of his very best performances. He came in at the #3 spot in my Best Actor choices for 1972, before I moved it to 1973.

[Dommy]

Best Picture-The Godfather

Best Director-Francis Ford Coppola-The Godfather

Best Actor-Marlon Brando-The Godfather

Best Actress-Diana Ross-Lady Sings The Blues

Best Supporting Actor-Al Pacino-The Godfather

Best Supporting Actress-Madeline Kahn-What's Up, Doc?

Best Newcomer Male-John Cazale

Best Newcomer Female-Madeline Kahn

[CoraSmith]

Imdb must have moved "The Conversation" from 1972 to 1973. I corrected my list. Marlon Brando is my new No. 10 with "Last Tango", a film I only saw once on TV. I should rewatch it. My best animal performance was from 1973 too. 

 

Also funny that Bogie and I have the same No. 2 and 3 for Best Actor in the reverse order. 

[LawrenceA]

My best animal performance was from 1973 too. 

 

Lol...I like your new choice. 

[Bogie56]

 The National Society of Film Critics Awards for 1972 were …

 

Best Actor

Al Pacino, The Godfather*

Marlon Brando, The Godfather

Peter O’Toole, The Ruling Class

Alec McCowen, Travels With My Aunt

 

Best Actress

Cicely Tyson, Sounder* 

Harriet Andersson, Cries and Whispers

Bulle Ogier, La Salamandre (71) and L’Amour Fou (69)

Janet Suzman, A Day In the Death of Joe Egg

Liza Minnelli, Cabaret

 

Best Supporting Actor

Joel Grey, Cabaret*

Eddie Albert, The Heartbreak Kid

Robert Duvall, the Godfather

Barry Foster, Frenzy

 

Best Supporting Actresses

Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid* 

Ida Lupino, Junior Bonner

Susan Tyrrell, Fat City

Cybill Shepherd, The Heartbreak Kid

Harriet Andersson, Cries and Whispers

 

​Note that these critics were divided when it came to the category Harriet Andersson belonged in.