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[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 133 films I've seen from 1973 for…

 

Best Actress of 1973

 

1.  LIV ULLMANN (Marianne), Scenes From a Marriage

2.  BARBRA STREISAND (Katie Morosky), The Way We Were

3.  SARAH MILES (Lady Helen Franklin), The Hireling

4.  GLENDA JACKSON (Vicki Allessio), A Touch of Class

5.  JOANNE WOODWARD (Rita Walden), Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

 

6.  ELLEN BURSTYN (Chris MacNeil), The Exorcist

7.  JULIE CHRISTIE (Laura Baxter), Don't Look Now

8.  TATUM O'NEAL (Addie Loggins/”Addie Pray”), Paper Moon

9.  JAQUELINE BISSETT (Julie Baker/“Pamela”), Day For Night

10. MARSHA MASON (Maggie Paul), Cinderella Liberty

 

and...

 

SISSY SPACEK (Holly Sargis/”Priscilla”/”Mildred”), Badlands

CINDY WILLIAMS (Laurie Henderson), American Graffiti

FRANCOISE LEBRUN (Veronika), The Mother and the Hoe

BABITA (Ananga Chakravarti), Distant Thunder

LINDSAY WAGNER (Susan Kingsfield Fields), The Paper Chase

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 133 films I've seen from 1973 for…

 

Best Actor of 1973

 

1.  ROBERT RYAN (Larry Slade), The Iceman Cometh

2.  JACK NICHOLSON (Signalman 1st Class, Billy ”Bad-Arse" L. Buddusky), The Last Detail 

3.  LEE MARVIN (Theodore Hickman/”Hickey”), The Iceman Cometh

4.  WOODY ALLEN (Miles Monroe), Sleeper

5.  AL PACINO (Frances “Frank” Serpico/”Paco”), Serpico

 

6.  STEVE MCQUEEN (Henri Charriere/"Papillon"), Papillon

7.  RANDY QUAID (Seaman Laurence “Larry” M. Meadows), The Last Detail

8.  MICHEL PICCOLI (Themroc/“Anonymous Worker”), Themroc

9.  OTIS YOUNG (Gunners Mate 1st Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall/”Mulehouse”), The Last Detail

10. ROBERT SHAW (“Regimental Sergeant Major” Steven Ledbetter), The Hireling

 

and...

 

JAMES COBURN (Sheriff Pat Garrett), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD (Alexandre), The Mother and the Hoe

ERLAND JOSEPHSON (Johan), Scenes From a Marriage

HARVEY KEITEL (Charlie Cappa), Mean Streets

JASON MILLER (Father/Dr. Damien Karras, S.J.), The Exorcist

ROBERT BLAKE (Officer John Wintergreen), Electra Glide In Blue

ROBERT REDFORD (Johnny Hooker/”Mr. Kelly”), The Sting

DONALD SUTHERLAND (John Baxter), Don't Look Now

PAUL NEWMAN (Harry Gondorff/"Mr. Shaw"), The Sting

WALTER MATTHAU (Charley Varrick), Charley Varrick

GIANCARLO GIANNINI (Antonio ‘Tonino’ Soffiantini/“Tunin”), Love and Anarchy

MARTIN SHEEN (Kit Carruthers/”James”), Badlands

PAUL LE MAT (John Milner), American Graffiti

JAMES CAAN (John Baggs, Jr.), Cinderella Liberty

MARTIN BALSAM (Harry Walden), Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

MICHAEL YORK (d’Artagnan), The Three Musketeers

SEAN CONNERY (Detective Sergeant Johnny Johnson), The Offence

EDWARD FOX ("The Jackal"/"Charles Harold Calthrop"/"Paul Oliver Duggan"/"Per Lonquist"),  The Day of            the Jackal

TIMOTHY BOTTOMS (James Hart), The Paper Chase

JEFF BRIDGES (Elroy Jackson, Jr./”Junior Jackson”/”Roy ‘Bobcat’ Jackson”), The Last American Hero

ELLIOTT GOULD (Philip Marlowe/”Marlboro Man”/”Sidney Jenkins”), The Long Goodbye

RYAN O’NEAL (Moses Pray/”Moze”), Paper Moon

DIVINE (Divine/”Babs Johnson”), Pink Flamingos

[Jlewis]

 

DIVINE (Divine/”Babs Johnson”), Pink Flamingos

 

Now there's an interesting choice. He literally ate s**t in that one, something ivy league method actors don't do. I sat through that movie twice back in the 1980s and was OK with the finale but couldn't stomach the chicken scenes (in which Divine didn't partake in).

[CoraSmith]

ACTOR:

1. Al Pacino - Serpico

2. Gene Hackman - Scarecrow

3. Donald Sutherland - Don't Look Now

4. Robert Redford - The Way We Were

5. Edward Fox - The Day of the Jackal

6. Jason Miller - The Exorcist

7. Al Pacino - Scarecrow

8. Louis de Funès - The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

9. Robert Redford - The Sting

10. Sean Connery - The Offence

ACTRESS:

1. Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist

2. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

3. Julie Christie - Don't Look Now
4. Pam Grier - Coffy

5. Diane Keaton - Sleeper

6. Claire Bloom - A Doll's House 
7. Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon

8. Monique van de Ven - Turkish Delight

9. Sissy Spacek - Badlands

10. Jacqueline Bisset - Day for Night

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Max von Sydow - The Exorcist

2. Edward G. Robinson - Soylent Green

3. Jean-Pierre Léaud - Day for Night

4. Lee J. Cobb - The Exorcist

5. Robert De Niro - Mean Streets

6. Richard Lynch - Scarecrow

7. Henri Guybet - The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

8. Lino Ventura - L'****

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Nathalie Baye - Day for Night

2. Linda Blair - The Exorcist

3. Lois Chiles - The Way We Were

4. Leigh Taylor-Hunt - Soylent Green

5. Kitty Winn - The Exorcist

6. Andréa Ferréol - La Grande Bouffe

7. Delphine Seyrig - The Day of the Jackal

8. Hilary Mason - Don't Look Now

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: 

1. Linda Blair - The Exorcist

2. Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon

 

BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Moluccan cockatoo - Serpico

BEST EXTRA: William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist

BEST DEMON PERFORMANCE: Pazuzu - The Exorcist

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Nino Rota - Amarcord

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: 

1. The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were)

2. Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney in Live and Let Die)

3. Knockin' on a Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid)

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONGS: I Don't Know How to Love Him (Yvonne Elliman in Jesus Christ Superstar)

BEST QUOTE: "I'm telling you that thing upstairs is not my daughter!" (The Exorcist)

[TomJH]

I'm glad to see some of the posters here acknowledging Sean Connery's performance as the brutish detective in The Offence.

 

I've always been impressed by the actor's "blue collar" characterizations. I think that The Offence and The Hill both represent Connery at his strongest as an actor.

[TomJH]

Here are my choices of the 133 films I've seen from 1973 for…

 

Best Actor of 1973

 

1.  ROBERT RYAN (Larry Slade), The Iceman Cometh

 

There's a pain in Ryan's eyes in this film that stays with you. Perhaps it's a reflection of his having recently lost his wife and he was still going through the mourning process. It was a memorable final performance from a strong, gritty character actor, brilliant at portraying the dark side of the human animal. Ryan was too often cast in roles beneath his talent, but he shone like few others when he had a role of some complexity.

 

[Bogie56]

The National Board of Review Awards for 1973 were…

 

Best Actors

Al Pacino, Serpico* 

Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh*

 

Best Actress

Liv Ullmann, The New Land* (72)

 

Best Supporting Actor

John Houseman, The Paper Chase*

 

Best Supporting Actress

Sylvia Sidney, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams*

[Bogie56]

The National Society of Film Critics Awards for 1973 were …

 

Best Actor

Marlon Brando, Last Tango In Paris* (72)

Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh

Al Pacino, Serpico

Robert De Niro, Mean Streets

Sergio Corrieri, Memories of Underdevelopment (68)

Harvey Keitel, Mean Streets

 

Best Actress

Liv Ullmann, The New Land* (72)

Mari Torocsik, Love/Szerelem (71)

Lili Darvas, Love/Szerelem (71)

Joanne Woodward, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Maria Schneider, Last Tango In Paris (72)

Marsha Mason, Cinderella Liberty

 

Best Supporting Actor

Robert De Niro, Mean Streets*

 

Best Supporting Actresses

Valentina Cortese, Day For Night* 

Mari Torocsik, Love/Szerelem (71)

Sylvia Sidney, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

P.J. Johnson, Paper Moon

Cindy Williams, American Graffiti

[Bogie56]

The BAFTA winners for 1973 were ….

 

Best Actor

Walter Matthau, Pete ’n’ Tille (72) and Charley Varrick

Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Steelyard Blues

Marlon Brando, Last Tango In Paris (72)

Laurence Olivier, Sleuth

 

Best Actress

Stephane Audran, Just Before Nightfall (71) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (72)*

Julie Christie, Don’t Look Now

Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues (72)

Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class

 

Best Supporting Actor

Arthur Lowe, O Lucky Man* 

Michael Lonsdale, The Day of the Jackal

Denholm Elliott, A Doll’s House

Ian Bannen, The Offence

 

Best Supporting Actress

Valentina Cortese, Day For Night* 

Ingrid Thulin, Cries and Whispers (72)

Delphine Seyrig, The Day of the Jackal

Rosemary Leach, That’ll Be the Day

[Bogie56]

Here are Danny Peary’s Alternate Oscar choices for 1973.  Winners in bold.  

 

Best Actor

Marlon Brando, Last Tango In Paris* (72)

Divine, Pink Flamingos

Malcolm McDowell, O Lucky Man

Robert Mitchum, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Michael Moriarty, Bang the Drum Slowly

Jack Nicholson, The Last Detail

Robert Redford, The Way We Were

 

Best Actress

Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were*

 

 

And here are Michael Gerbert’s Golden Armchair choices for 1973:

 

Best Actor

Sterling Hayden, The Long Goodbye*

 

Best Actress

Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class*

[LawrenceA]

Divine, Pink Flamingos

 

Pink Flamingos had a March, 1972 premiere in Baltimore, Maryland, if that makes any difference. 

[Bogie56]

Pink Flamingos had a March, 1972 premiere in Baltimore, Maryland, if that makes any difference. 

 

I'll make my change for future considerations!  

[RipMurdock]

I'll make my change for future considerations!  

the duke an only the duke

[Bogie56]

The Golden Globe Awards for 1973 were …

 

Best Actor in a Drama

Al Pacino, Serpico*

Robert Blake, Electra Glide In Blue

Jack Nicholson, The Last Detail

Steve McQueen, Papillon

Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger

 

Best Actress in a Drama

Marsha Mason, Cinderella Liberty* 

Elizabeth Taylor, Ash Wednesday

Ellen Burstyn, The Exorcist

Joanne Woodward, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were

 

Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical

George Segal, A Touch of Class*

Richard Dreyfuss, American Graffiti

Carl Anderson, Jesus Christ Sueprstar

Ted Neeley, Jesus Christ Superstar

Ryan O’Neal, Paper Moon

 

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical

Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class*

Liv Ullmann, 40 Carats

Cloris Leachman, Charley and the Angels

Yvonne Elliman, Jesus Christ Sueprstar

Tatum O’Neal, Paper Moon

 

Best Supporting Actor

John Houseman, The Paper Chase*

Max von Sydow, The Exorcist

Randy Quaid, The Last Detail

Jack Gilford, Save the Tiger

Martin Balsam, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

 

Best Supporting Actresses

Linda Blair, The Exorcist*

Kate Reid, A Delicate Balance

Valentia Cortese, Day For Night

Madeline Khan, Paper Moon

Sylvia Sidney, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

[JamesStewartFan95]

Best Picture

Butterflies are Free

Cabaret

The Candidate

Deliverance

The Godfather

Lady Sings The Blues

Sounder

What's Up Do?

 

Best Director

John Boorman, Deliverance

Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather

Bob Fosse, Cabaret

Sydney J. Furie, Lady Sings The Blues

Michael Ritchie, The Candidate

 

Best Actor

Edward Albert, Butterflies are Free

Marlon Brando, The Godfather

Charles Grodin, The Heartbreak Kid

Al Pacino, The Godfather

Robert Redford, The Candidate

Jon Voight, Deliverance

 

Best Actress

Goldie Hawn, Butterflies are Free

Liza Minnelli, Cabaret

Diana Ross, Lady Sings The Blues

Barbra Streisand, What's Up Doc?

Cicely Tyson, Sounder

 

Best Supporting Actor

Ned Beatty, Deliverance

James Caan, The Godfather

Robert Duvall, The Godfather

Joel Grey, Cabaret

Don Porter, The Candidate

 

Best Supporting Actress

Marisa Berenson, Cabaret

Virginia Capers, Lady Sings The Blues

Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free

Talia Shire, The Godfather

Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure

[Bogie56]

There were no acting awards given at the 1973 Berlin International Film Festival.

 

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The 1973 Cannes Film Festival winners were…

 

Best Actor

Giancarlo Giannini, Love and Anarchy

 

Best Actress

Joanne Woodward, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (72)

 

 

[Bogie56]

Best Supporting Actor of 1973

 

3.  SPIKE MILLIGAN (Monsieur de Bonancieux), The Three Musketeers

 

 

"And tonight's the night!"

My number three choice for best supporting actor, Spike Milligan (1918-2002) played the unlikely husband of Raquel Welch in Three Musketeers.  Milligan's Goon Show humour was a perfect fit with Geroge MacDonad Fraser and Richard Lester.

"You can beat your servant and his screams will scarcely be heard."

"He took my hand and called me friend"

"You think that you alone have friends in high places"

[Bogie56]

The 1973 San Sebastian Film Festival winners were…

 

Best Actors

Lino Ventura, Happy New Year*

Giancarlo Giannini, It Was I!*

 

Best Actresses

Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class*

Francoise Fabian, Happy New Year*

 

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The 1973 Moscow International Film Festival winners were …

 

Best Actors

Sergio Corrieri, The Man From Maisinicu*

Ramaz Chikhikvadze, The Saplings* (72)

 

Best Actresses

Giang Tra, 17th Parallel Nights and Days*

Ingerid Vardund, Lina’s Wedding*

[Bogie56]

Here are some performances from 1973 that will be recognized in subsequent years …

 

Valentina Cortese will be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1974 for Day For Night (1973).

 

Liv Ullmann will win the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Awards in 1974 for Scenes From a Marriage (1973).  She will also be nominated for the Golden Globe Best Dramatic Actress Award and will win Italy’s David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award in 1974.  In 1975 she will be nominated for the BAFTA Best Actress Award.

 

Mariangela Melato will be nominated for the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award in 1974 for Love and Anarchy (1973).

 

Bibi Andersson will be nominated for the New York Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Award and will win the National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Award in 1974 for Scenes From a Marriage (1973).

 

Jack Nicholson will win the National Society of Film Critics Best Actor Award and the BAFTA Best Actor Award in 1974 for both Chinatown (1974) and The Last Detail (1973).

 

Al Pacino will be nominated the BAFTA Best Actor Award in 1974 for Serpico (1973).

 

Joanne Woodward will win the BAFTA Best Actress Award in 1974 for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).

 

Barbra Streisand will be nominated the BAFTA Best Actress Award in 1974 for The Way We Were (1973).

 

Randy Quaid will be nominated the BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Award in 1974 for The Last Detail (1973).

 

Cindy Williams will be nominated the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Award in 1974 for American Graffiti (1973).

 

Sylvia Sidney will be nominated the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Award in 1974 for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).

 

Raquel Welch will win the Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Award in 1974 for The Three Musketeers (1973).

 

Martin Sheen will win the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award in 1974 for Badlands (1973).

 

Jack Nicholson will win the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award in 1974 for The Last Detail (1973).

 

Florinda Bolkan won the David di Donatello Best Actress Award in 72/73 for Dear Parents (1973).

 

Florinda Bolkan will win the Los Angeles Film Critics Best Actress Award in 1975 for A Brief Vacation (1973).

[JamesStewartFan95]

Best Actor

Richard Dreyfuss, American Graffiti

Victor Garber, Godspell

Harvey Keitel, Mean Streets

Jason Miller, The Exorcist

Paul Newman, The Sting

Al Pacino, Serpico

Robert Redford, The Sting

Donald Sutherland, Don't Look Back

 

Best Actress

Ellen Burstyn. The Exorcist

Julie Christie, Don't Look Back

Yvonne Elliman, Jesus Christ Superstar

Marsha Mason, Cinderella Liberty

Lindsey Wagner, The Paper Chase

 

Best Supporting Actor

Carl Anderson, Jesus Christ Superstar

Barry Dennen, Jesus Christ Superstar

Robert DeNiro, Mean Streets

Paul LeMat, American Graffiti

Edward G. Robinson, Soylent Green

Charles Martin Smith, American Graffiti

Robert Shaw, The Sting

Max Von Sydow, The Exorcist

 

Best Supporting Actress

Linda Blair, The Exorcist

Candy Clark, American Graffiti

Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon

Mackenzie Phillips, American Graffiti

Barbara Eden-Young, Serpico

[kingrat]

A question about Liv Ullmann's performance in Scenes from a Marriage: Like some of the rest of you, I love Liv Ullmann in just about anything. She's a very skillful actress, she's an attractive woman, and she's a great camera subject I'm always willing to look at. So why don't I have a clear sense of the woman she plays in Scenes from a Marriage?

 

Erland Josephson I get: the character he plays is an intellectual and a jerk, not necessarily in that order, incapable of fidelity, not really a bad guy but not a particularly good one. Liv's character mainly reacts to him. She's the generic wronged wife, intelligent Swedish version. She doesn't (thank God, some might say) "find herself" a la An Unmarried Woman, but her character isn't as sharply focused as the one Bibi Andersson plays in the first act, which to me is by far the best part of the film.

 

Consider, as a point of reference, La maman et la putain, which revolves around three characters (Alexandre, Marie who is keeping him, and Veronique his new girlfriend), and each of the three is a strongly defined individual, even more than the Josephson and Andersson characters in the Bergman film.

 

Perhaps Bergman wants the wife to be a representative rather than an individual character, but if so, that seems to me unfortunate. I believe the weaknesses of Bergman's script limit what even a terrific actress like Ullmann can do with the part.

 

I saw the movie not long after it first came out, and watched it on TCM a couple of years ago mostly to see if my initial impression of the film was too low. Maybe a bit--I did like the first act better--but it seems to me one of Bergman's lesser efforts.

[LawrenceA]

kingrat, I agree for the most part with your assessment of the movie Scenes from a Marriage. It doesn't rank among my favorites of Bergman's films, either. I thought Ullmann's performance was top notch, as usual for her, even if the character itself wasn't as thrilling. I saw it fairly recently, perhaps from the last showing of it on TCM. The only Bergman films that I've seen more recently were Shame and Face to Face.

 

I haven't seen La maman et la putain to make any comparisons. I've never found it on tape, disc or on TV. If it mainly serves as a rebuttal to the films of Truffaut, though, I doubt I'll get much out of it, as I don't have much of anything invested in Truffaut enough to care about that angle.

 

Some posters have stated that the 70's were the worst decade for women's roles. While I think there were some truly great performances, I have to agree that there aren't quite as many that I find remarkable. The 70's were great for actors and directors, but not as much for actresses. Of course, that's all my opinion, and there are plenty of movies that I still need to see.

[skimpole]

Does anybody have a strong opinion of A Touch of Class?  I haven't seen it, but I think that of all the best picture nominees of the decade, it shares with Nicholas and Alexandra, The Towering Inferno and The Turning Point as having the worst reputation. The fact that Melvin Frank was not nominated for best director is not a good sign.  (Frank is best known for making The Court Jester.) I remember reading in the early eighties that Leonard Maltin only gave it two stars, which maybe how most people encountered it.  Apparently the George Segal role was first offered to Cary Grant.  If he accepted it he might have gotten an sentimental Oscar.

 

Another question.  What's the best Best Picture nominee not to get a Best Director nomination?

[LawrenceA]

Skimpole, I found A Touch of Class to be pleasant if unremarkable for the most part. I'm not sure if it was based on a play, but it easily could have been, as it's largely dialogue driven with few characters or locations. There was nothing visible on screen to warrant a director nod, in my opinion, but both leads were fine, and Jackson could command the screen regardless of the merits of the material. 

 

As to your second query, upon review of the films meeting that criteria, my choice would be Taxi Driver, as it's my second favorite film of all time. Pre-2013, I have seen every best picture nominee with the exception of East Lynne and The White Parade, and a couple of the lost films (The Way of All Flesh, The Patriot). A few other notable best picture without best direction nominees are The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Maltese Falcon, and Grand Illusion.

[Bogie56]

Italy’s Nastro d’Argento Film Awards for 1973 were …

 

Best Actor

Giancarlo Giannini, Love and Anarchy

 

Best Actress

Laura Antonelli, Malicious

 

Best Supporting Actor

Turi Fero, Malicious

 

Best Supporting Actresses

Adriana Asti, A Brief Vacation

 

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Italy’s 72/73 David di Donatello Awards included …

 

Best Actress

Florinda Bolkan, Dear Parents*

 

Italy’s 73/74 David di Donatello Awards for 1973 were …

 

Best Actor

Nino Manfredi, Bread and Chocolate* (74)

 

Best Foreign Actors

Robert Redford, The Sting*

Al Pacino, Serpico*

 

Best Actresses

Sophia Loren, The Voyage* (74)

Monica Vitti, Star Dust*

 

Best Foreign Actresses

Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were*

Tatum O’Neal, Paper Moon*