1977 is all about 2 movies, Annie Hall and Star Wars. Which you think should have won is really up to you. I think the academy made the right choice in honoring Woody Allen who up to this point had been making hysterical movies and finally veered into making hysterical and brilliant films. Comedies and sci-fi films so often get overlooked at the Oscars and unfortunately this year not only had one of the best comedies of all time but also one of the best sci-fi films.
You can see my GABBY winners and nominees HERE
4. Julia - I found this film well acted but dull. Jane Fonda plays writer Lillian Hellman who goes to help her friend Julia, who is working with an anti-fascist group in Europe. She smuggles money to her and then goes back home and finds out that Julia was murdered. Not a lot happens in the film and after watching it you're left with a sense of, why did I sit through two hours of that?
3. The Goodbye Girl - This is a very funny Neil Simon comedy about a woman who suddenly finds she is a single mother and rents out half of her apartment to pay the rent. Richard Dreyfuss is the man who rents the apartment and he is an eccentric and neurotic actor. He crawls under her skin and she under his until they start to fall in love. It's a nice little romantic comedy, not the type of movie you usually find in the Best Picture lineup.
2. Star Wars - George Lucas's space opera. It's your classic good vs. evil story. A young man finds that he has a gift and uses it to bring balance to the world. There's nothing exceptionally new in the story but the way it was told was a stroke of genius. Lucas used every piece of special effect technology at his disposal to create something that had never been seen before.
1. Annie Hall - Of all of Woody Allen's films, this is the best, and he's made some classic films. If you were only going to watch one Woody Allen film then this would be the one to choose, also, if you were only going to watch one romantic comedy then this would be the one to choose. He didn't create the wheel but he did set the stage and use everything there was to create a perfect film. Breaking the fourth wall, talking directly to camera, a non-linear timeline, flashbacks, absurdity, every scene in this movie works as a short film and it all adds up to one of the greatest romantic comedies ever made and the characters don't even end up together at the end.
Not sure why Julia and The Turning Point needed to be here over Close Encounters Of The Third Kind but let's work with what we have. It's between Annie Hall and Star Wars and it really comes down to what you prefer. Annie Hall is one of the best comedies of all time and Star Wars redefined the genre of sci-fi. On technical achievement you can't ignore Star Wars but, for me, Annie Hall is a perfect film. Every second of it works and there's not a better Woody Allen film and not a better romantic comedy.
Oscar Winner: Annie Hall
My Vote: Annie Hall
GABBY Winner: Annie Hall
BEST ACTOR
4. Woody Allen - Annie Hall - I love Annie Hall but I can't argue that Allen really needed to be in this category. It's a nice nomination but he's been playing the same character for 10 years now. It always works because he's Woody Allen playing a Woody Allen character but this performance is really no different than his performance in Bananas or Sleeper.
3. John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever - Tony Manero is the king of the disco floor in Brooklyn. This movie follows his life on the dance floor and off of it as he deals with teen angst, racial tensions and an unsupportive family. Travolta graduated from TV to film stardom and this is a pretty good performance that is worthy of a nomination, not a win, but a nice nomination.
2. Richard Burton - Equus - Burton is a lot like Gregory Peck. He was a much better voice than he was an actor. He was a good actor but his voice did most of the heavy lifting. His powerful baritone lent gravitas to scenes that wouldn't seem as important in lesser hands. This movie is freaking weird. A boy is sent to a psychiatrist because he blinded 6 horses and Burton plays the psychiatrist who is trying to find out why he did it. There's a big nude scene with a horse and...it's just a bizarre little film. Burton is good in the role but this is kind of a status nomination. If anyone else played this role I doubt they would have gotten a nod.
1. Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl - Dreyfuss plays a full of himself actor. He rents an apartment from a single mother and at first annoys her with his eccentric habits, like meditating in the nude, but they eventually fall in love. He's really funny in the film playing a heightened version of a pompous actor, I especially enjoyed his scenes where he gets his dream role of Richard III but the director makes him play the part as a homosexual. As an actor, those scenes where he fights with his director really rang true.
Burton should have won an Oscar 10 years ago but didn't so they pretty much stacked the deck in his favor this year. It's a kind of weak category where he is the only American actor with a previous nod. I'm not voting for him but I could totally see him winning here. Apparently he got excited when they announced the winner as "Richard..." then felt defeated when it was Dreyfuss and not Burton. His performance in Equus is just not an Oscar winning role and a vote for Burton is a vote for the man, not the performance. Dreyfuss probably wouldn't win in a different year, certainly not 1976 or 1978 but his funny performance in The Goodbye Girl mixed with his dramatic and frazzled performance in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and his career of good performances leads to him earning my vote.
Quick story: I started on this quest when I was in high school and the Columbus Public Library is insanely good. You could reserve a book or a movie from any branch and they would deliver it to your local branch usually within 3-4 days. This was pre-Netflix or any streaming services so it was like free on demand cable. I had practically every movie at my disposal. I start going to the library 5 times a week to check out movies that I have never seen so I could judge them for my own awards. One day when I was 15 or so a movie gets flagged and I am told I need to have my parents permission. I ask my mom to come to the library with me so I can check out Equus. I'm not sure what she was thinking or if she was wondering why I wanted to watch the horse fucking movie but she let me rent it and told the librarian that I could check out whatever I wanted from that point on.
Oscar Winner: Richard Dreyfuss
My Vote: Richard Dreyfuss
GABBY Winner: Art Carney for The Late Show
BEST ACTRESS
4. Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point - Anne plays a professional ballet dancer who is jealous of Shirley MacLaine for having a family life. She pines for a life she never had while Shirley is jealous of her. It's like a body swap movie but they never do the swap, they just talk about it for 2 hours. Anne trains Shirley's daughter at the ballet company and they end up having a big fight. I think I liked her performance a tad more than MacLaine's but she had a win where Shirley didn't. Also, Shirley actually had training in ballet but doesn't do any dancing in the film. Anne strikes some poses but doesn't do any actual dancing, but just look at her body in this film. I don't know if she was naturally that thin or if she worked at it but she definitely looks like a ballerina.
3. Shirley MacLaine - The Turning Point - Shirley plays a wife and mother who is jealous of Anne Bancroft for living the life of a professional ballet dancer. The ballet company has a party at her house and she starts remembering the good times she had as a dancer and pines for the life she left behind. She also finds that Bancroft stabbed her in the back years ago and they end up having a big fight which is the highlight of the film. I liked Bancroft just a touch more but Shirley didn't have a win at this point and Anne did.
2. Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl - Mason plays a single mother who rents out her apartment to a neurotic actor. At first the two are at odds with each other but eventually they grow to respect and love one another. It's a nice romantic comedy performance. She acts all rough at the beginning of the movie and then softens.
1. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall - It's hard to describe to someone who hasn't seen Annie Hall just how great Diane Keaton is. She makes you fall in love with her. There's a natural beauty and charisma that goes in to the performance that is just unmatched by any other actress. You believe her character 100% and you fall for her just as Woody Allen does.
Diane Keaton is the obvious winner here. Giving this award to anyone else would have been a complete upset. She gives an incredible performance that set the guidelines for every romantic comedy performance in the future. Not only that, she was also terrific in Looking For Mr. Goodbar and had Annie Hall not come out this year she would be my choice for that movie instead.
Oscar Winner: Diane Keaton
My Vote: Diane Keaton
GABBY Winner: Diane Keaton
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
4. Maximillian Schell - Julia - Schell won a Best Actor Oscar in 1961 for a role that could be considered a supporting one. Here he's nominated in the supporting category for a role that barely qualifies as that. He meets Lillian Hellman in Russia gives her some information and that's it. He barely factors into the plot at all. He's fine in the role but there's not much heavy lifting that needs to be done.
3. Peter Firth - Equus - Firth plays the young man who blinded a bunch of horses. He's full cray cray in the movie and has a big nude scene with a horse. He's definitely good in the film but this is just not something I could vote for. I can't really explain it more than that. I didn't care for the film, they tried to make it as cinematic as possible but it still feels like a filmed play.
2. Jason Robards - Julia - Robards plays Dashiell Hammett. He doesn't do much in the film except say a couple lines in a dignified Jason Robards fashion. Robards won last year in this category so that's a strike against him. He would go on to win again this year for a role that didn't require much acting at all. I think Robards deserved 2 Oscars but one should have been for A Thousand Clowns back in 1965. This is just a win for an actor we all like playing a famous character.
1. Alec Guinness - Star Wars - He's Obi-Wan Kenobi. That's all you have to say. Guinness was an incredible actor who lent gravitas to this part because of his stature, just like Ian McKellen did with Gandalf and Richard Harris did with Dumbledore. In a stronger year he wouldn't be my number 1 but in this category there is nobody else to vote for.
Guinness wins easily for me. It's been 20 years since he won an Oscar so he's due for a 2nd and he has no competition. I'm not going to pick Baryshnikov or Peter Firth over him, Schell didn't do anything in his film and Robards just won last year. Guinness just did this movie for the paycheck and he didn't understand how this movie could be the cultural phenomenon that it turned out to be but his performance made the part more special than a lesser actor could.
Oscar Winner: Jason Robards
My Vote: Alec Guinness
GABBY Winner: Alec Guinness
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
You can see my GABBY winners and nominees HERE
BEST PICTURE
5. The Turning Point - Every year there's one movie that I just dread watching. Sometimes I get surprised and end up loving the film but most of the time my assumptions are correct and I find the picture really hard to get through. This isn't a bad movie, it's just a dull one. Shirley MacLaine is a former dancer who gave up her career to start a family and Anne Bancroft is a famous dancer who wishes she had children. MacLaine's daughter wants to dance and Bancroft becomes her mentor and it's all very dull with a lot of ballet dancing until the two have a huge fight and make up. Bancroft and MacLaine are very good and it's nice to see a movie headlined by two great actresses but this movie just didn't work for me. This movie shares the record with The Color Purple for most Oscar nominations without a single win. 11 nods and it left empty handed.
4. Julia - I found this film well acted but dull. Jane Fonda plays writer Lillian Hellman who goes to help her friend Julia, who is working with an anti-fascist group in Europe. She smuggles money to her and then goes back home and finds out that Julia was murdered. Not a lot happens in the film and after watching it you're left with a sense of, why did I sit through two hours of that?
3. The Goodbye Girl - This is a very funny Neil Simon comedy about a woman who suddenly finds she is a single mother and rents out half of her apartment to pay the rent. Richard Dreyfuss is the man who rents the apartment and he is an eccentric and neurotic actor. He crawls under her skin and she under his until they start to fall in love. It's a nice little romantic comedy, not the type of movie you usually find in the Best Picture lineup.
2. Star Wars - George Lucas's space opera. It's your classic good vs. evil story. A young man finds that he has a gift and uses it to bring balance to the world. There's nothing exceptionally new in the story but the way it was told was a stroke of genius. Lucas used every piece of special effect technology at his disposal to create something that had never been seen before.
1. Annie Hall - Of all of Woody Allen's films, this is the best, and he's made some classic films. If you were only going to watch one Woody Allen film then this would be the one to choose, also, if you were only going to watch one romantic comedy then this would be the one to choose. He didn't create the wheel but he did set the stage and use everything there was to create a perfect film. Breaking the fourth wall, talking directly to camera, a non-linear timeline, flashbacks, absurdity, every scene in this movie works as a short film and it all adds up to one of the greatest romantic comedies ever made and the characters don't even end up together at the end.
Not sure why Julia and The Turning Point needed to be here over Close Encounters Of The Third Kind but let's work with what we have. It's between Annie Hall and Star Wars and it really comes down to what you prefer. Annie Hall is one of the best comedies of all time and Star Wars redefined the genre of sci-fi. On technical achievement you can't ignore Star Wars but, for me, Annie Hall is a perfect film. Every second of it works and there's not a better Woody Allen film and not a better romantic comedy.
Oscar Winner: Annie Hall
My Vote: Annie Hall
GABBY Winner: Annie Hall
BEST ACTOR
5. Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day - As a rule, foreign performances always land in 5th place. There was really no way Mastroianni could have won here so all he's doing is taking away a nomination from a deserving American actor. Granted, it was a weak year but Art Carney for The Late Show would have fit in fine here and would have given some legitimacy to his 1974 win.
4. Woody Allen - Annie Hall - I love Annie Hall but I can't argue that Allen really needed to be in this category. It's a nice nomination but he's been playing the same character for 10 years now. It always works because he's Woody Allen playing a Woody Allen character but this performance is really no different than his performance in Bananas or Sleeper.
3. John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever - Tony Manero is the king of the disco floor in Brooklyn. This movie follows his life on the dance floor and off of it as he deals with teen angst, racial tensions and an unsupportive family. Travolta graduated from TV to film stardom and this is a pretty good performance that is worthy of a nomination, not a win, but a nice nomination.
2. Richard Burton - Equus - Burton is a lot like Gregory Peck. He was a much better voice than he was an actor. He was a good actor but his voice did most of the heavy lifting. His powerful baritone lent gravitas to scenes that wouldn't seem as important in lesser hands. This movie is freaking weird. A boy is sent to a psychiatrist because he blinded 6 horses and Burton plays the psychiatrist who is trying to find out why he did it. There's a big nude scene with a horse and...it's just a bizarre little film. Burton is good in the role but this is kind of a status nomination. If anyone else played this role I doubt they would have gotten a nod.
1. Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl - Dreyfuss plays a full of himself actor. He rents an apartment from a single mother and at first annoys her with his eccentric habits, like meditating in the nude, but they eventually fall in love. He's really funny in the film playing a heightened version of a pompous actor, I especially enjoyed his scenes where he gets his dream role of Richard III but the director makes him play the part as a homosexual. As an actor, those scenes where he fights with his director really rang true.
Burton should have won an Oscar 10 years ago but didn't so they pretty much stacked the deck in his favor this year. It's a kind of weak category where he is the only American actor with a previous nod. I'm not voting for him but I could totally see him winning here. Apparently he got excited when they announced the winner as "Richard..." then felt defeated when it was Dreyfuss and not Burton. His performance in Equus is just not an Oscar winning role and a vote for Burton is a vote for the man, not the performance. Dreyfuss probably wouldn't win in a different year, certainly not 1976 or 1978 but his funny performance in The Goodbye Girl mixed with his dramatic and frazzled performance in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and his career of good performances leads to him earning my vote.
Quick story: I started on this quest when I was in high school and the Columbus Public Library is insanely good. You could reserve a book or a movie from any branch and they would deliver it to your local branch usually within 3-4 days. This was pre-Netflix or any streaming services so it was like free on demand cable. I had practically every movie at my disposal. I start going to the library 5 times a week to check out movies that I have never seen so I could judge them for my own awards. One day when I was 15 or so a movie gets flagged and I am told I need to have my parents permission. I ask my mom to come to the library with me so I can check out Equus. I'm not sure what she was thinking or if she was wondering why I wanted to watch the horse fucking movie but she let me rent it and told the librarian that I could check out whatever I wanted from that point on.
Oscar Winner: Richard Dreyfuss
My Vote: Richard Dreyfuss
GABBY Winner: Art Carney for The Late Show
BEST ACTRESS
5. Jane Fonda - Julia - Fonda plays Lillian Hellman, the famous playwright, who lives with novelist Dashiell Hammett. She is in Russia for a writer's conference and gets word that her old friend Julia is fighting Nazis and needs money smuggled to her. She risks her life smuggling the money, meets with her old friend then returns home and finds out she's dead. That's pretty much it. She's fine in the role but not 2nd Oscar good and, knowing that she's going to win next year, definitely not 3rd Oscar good.
4. Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point - Anne plays a professional ballet dancer who is jealous of Shirley MacLaine for having a family life. She pines for a life she never had while Shirley is jealous of her. It's like a body swap movie but they never do the swap, they just talk about it for 2 hours. Anne trains Shirley's daughter at the ballet company and they end up having a big fight. I think I liked her performance a tad more than MacLaine's but she had a win where Shirley didn't. Also, Shirley actually had training in ballet but doesn't do any dancing in the film. Anne strikes some poses but doesn't do any actual dancing, but just look at her body in this film. I don't know if she was naturally that thin or if she worked at it but she definitely looks like a ballerina.
3. Shirley MacLaine - The Turning Point - Shirley plays a wife and mother who is jealous of Anne Bancroft for living the life of a professional ballet dancer. The ballet company has a party at her house and she starts remembering the good times she had as a dancer and pines for the life she left behind. She also finds that Bancroft stabbed her in the back years ago and they end up having a big fight which is the highlight of the film. I liked Bancroft just a touch more but Shirley didn't have a win at this point and Anne did.
2. Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl - Mason plays a single mother who rents out her apartment to a neurotic actor. At first the two are at odds with each other but eventually they grow to respect and love one another. It's a nice romantic comedy performance. She acts all rough at the beginning of the movie and then softens.
1. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall - It's hard to describe to someone who hasn't seen Annie Hall just how great Diane Keaton is. She makes you fall in love with her. There's a natural beauty and charisma that goes in to the performance that is just unmatched by any other actress. You believe her character 100% and you fall for her just as Woody Allen does.
Diane Keaton is the obvious winner here. Giving this award to anyone else would have been a complete upset. She gives an incredible performance that set the guidelines for every romantic comedy performance in the future. Not only that, she was also terrific in Looking For Mr. Goodbar and had Annie Hall not come out this year she would be my choice for that movie instead.
Oscar Winner: Diane Keaton
My Vote: Diane Keaton
GABBY Winner: Diane Keaton
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
5. Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point - Hey, I thought these were acting awards. Baryshnikov doesn't really do much in the film except dance. He's a good dancer, he's a world famous ballet dancer so I would hope he'd be good, but I can't condone this nomination as his acting is far from something that should ever be nominated. Also, I can't find proof of this on the internet but he appears to be dubbed for most of the film.
4. Maximillian Schell - Julia - Schell won a Best Actor Oscar in 1961 for a role that could be considered a supporting one. Here he's nominated in the supporting category for a role that barely qualifies as that. He meets Lillian Hellman in Russia gives her some information and that's it. He barely factors into the plot at all. He's fine in the role but there's not much heavy lifting that needs to be done.
3. Peter Firth - Equus - Firth plays the young man who blinded a bunch of horses. He's full cray cray in the movie and has a big nude scene with a horse. He's definitely good in the film but this is just not something I could vote for. I can't really explain it more than that. I didn't care for the film, they tried to make it as cinematic as possible but it still feels like a filmed play.
2. Jason Robards - Julia - Robards plays Dashiell Hammett. He doesn't do much in the film except say a couple lines in a dignified Jason Robards fashion. Robards won last year in this category so that's a strike against him. He would go on to win again this year for a role that didn't require much acting at all. I think Robards deserved 2 Oscars but one should have been for A Thousand Clowns back in 1965. This is just a win for an actor we all like playing a famous character.
1. Alec Guinness - Star Wars - He's Obi-Wan Kenobi. That's all you have to say. Guinness was an incredible actor who lent gravitas to this part because of his stature, just like Ian McKellen did with Gandalf and Richard Harris did with Dumbledore. In a stronger year he wouldn't be my number 1 but in this category there is nobody else to vote for.
Guinness wins easily for me. It's been 20 years since he won an Oscar so he's due for a 2nd and he has no competition. I'm not going to pick Baryshnikov or Peter Firth over him, Schell didn't do anything in his film and Robards just won last year. Guinness just did this movie for the paycheck and he didn't understand how this movie could be the cultural phenomenon that it turned out to be but his performance made the part more special than a lesser actor could.
Oscar Winner: Jason Robards
My Vote: Alec Guinness
GABBY Winner: Alec Guinness
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
5. Leslie Browne - The Turning Point - Browne plays Shirley MacLaine's daughter who goes into the ballet company that her mother left to start a family. She starts a romantic relationship with Mikhail Baryshnikov, who turns out to be a womanizer, and she starts drinking. She's fine in the film but is a better dancer than she is an actress.
4. Tuesday Weld - Looking For Mr. Goodbar - This is a Diane Keaton film and she gives a performance that is worthy of a Best Actress Oscar, unfortunately it came out the same year she created one of the most iconic female film characters ever with Annie Hall. Keaton is a school teacher for the deaf but in her off hours she likes to do drugs and have casual sex. It's a character study for this woman as she goes about her life. Weld plays her sister. We first meet her as she's crying about having to get an abortion because she got pregnant by a man other than her husband, then we see her after the abortion and she has some little moments throughout the film. She's fine in the role but the reason I can't vote for her is because this is the Diane Keaton show. Giving an acting win to someone else seems weird. As I was watching the movie I was just in awe of how great Keaton was and then when the movie was over I had to remember what the hell Tuesday Weld did in the film.
3. Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl - As a rule I don't like Oscar nominations for children. There's a fine line between good acting and just natural screen presence. Children are usually very natural and if you ask a kid to just be a kid, given enough takes they will eventually get it right. Cummings plays the precocious child of Marsha Mason and she's pretty funny in the film. She acts way older than she is and likes to curse a lot. I can't vote for her though for a couple of reasons. If she wins an Oscar at age 10, where could her career possibly go? Also, who deserves an Oscar more, Quinn Cummings or Vanessa Redgrave?
2. Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - Dillon plays a woman who witnesses a UFO and then has her child abducted by the spacecraft. She then goes on a road trip with Richard Dreyfuss to see the ship land. Her best scenes in the film are when she's screaming and she screams really well. There's not a whole lot to her character, I would have preferred if Teri Garr got the nod instead, but she was great as the mom in A Christmas Story so that bumps her up a few spots.
1. Vanessa Redgrave - Julia - Redgrave plays the titular Julia. She's overseas fighting for the party that is against Nazis. She gets in some trouble and asks Jane Fonda to smuggle her some money. The whole movie is about her character even though she's only in a handful of scenes. The two finally meet at a restaurant and Redgrave is optimistic but obviously in dire straights. It's a solid performance, not one I would normally vote for, but in this weak category it turns out to be the best.
This is a complete "I guess so, why not?" vote. Vanessa Redgrave is a terrific actress and deserves an Oscar. This category is really weak and out of all the actresses nominated she should have an Oscar more than the others. So, I'll hold my nose and vote for Redgrave even though I didn't find much of anything in the performance and I found the movie really boring. There's your analysis, sometimes voting is just picking the least offensive choice.
Oscar Winner: Vanessa Redgrave
My Vote: Vanessa Redgrave
GABBY Winner: Cloris Leachman for High Anxiety
My Vote: Vanessa Redgrave
GABBY Winner: Cloris Leachman for High Anxiety
Best Director
So, Woody Allen created a masterpiece with Annie Hall but I find myself thinking that either George Lucas or Steven Spielberg deserved this a little more. You know Woody's going to win in the screenplay category so you might as well reward the technical achievements that either of the other two made. I can totally see the two cancelling each other out and clearing the way for Allen.
Best Original Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
Annie Hall wins Original which is a no contest decision in my eyes. The Late Show, The Goodbye Girl and Star Wars would have held up as winners but if they beat out Annie Hall it would have been a very questionable decision. Julia wins in the adapted category which is fine, I guess. There's nothing else nominated that I particularly think deserves it.
Best Original Score/Song Score Or Adaptation Score/Song
John Williams beats himself as his iconic score to Star Wars edges out Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. For some reason The Spy Who Loved Me scored a nomination, one of the sillier James Bond films. A Little Night Music wins in the now defunct Song Score or Adaptation Score which is really just an award for the best movie musical. For Best Song they went with You Light Up My Life from the film of the same name. It was a huge hit at the time that turned into an easy listening standard. In this category I would have gone with The Spy Who Loved Me and the Carly Simon ballad Nobody Does It Better or any non-nominated song from Saturday Night Fever.
Best Costume Design
I don't care if you are Edith Head, why are the costumes from Airport '77 nominated? Star Wars wins for it's inventive creature designs.
Best Sound/Sound Effects Editing
Star Wars wins both categories fair and square. You could argue Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, but you would be wrong.
Best Art Direction
Star Wars wins this category fairly as well. The interior design of the spaceships as well as creating a completely different world from our own far surpassed its competition.
Best Cinematography
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind wins and Star Wars misses out on a nomination. I would vote Close Encounters in this category anyway but Star Wars should have been included.
Best Film Editing
With Annie Hall missing out on a nomination, one of the few Best Picture winners not to get nominated here, Star Wars wins easily.
Best Visual Effects
Star Wars beats Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Both had tremendous special effects for the time but you can't argue that Star Wars didn't deserve this.
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