Throwback Muriels: 1971

Thursday, July 28, 2011

1971

Picture:
Walkabout
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Macbeth
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
A New Leaf
Carnal Knowledge
Claire’s Knee
Two-Lane Blacktop
Get Carter

Director:
Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout
Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Roman Polanski, Macbeth
William Friedkin, The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show

Male Lead:
Warren Beatty, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
Elliott Gould, Little Murders
Gene Hackman, The French Connection
Seymour Cassel, Minnie and Moskowitz

Female Lead:
Jenny Agutter, Walkabout
Jane Fonda, Klute
Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskowitz
Elaine May, A New Leaf
Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Male Supporting:
Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show
Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop
Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show
Roy Scheider, The French Connection
Keith Carradine, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Female Supporting:
Elizabeth Hartman, The Beguiled
Beatrice Romand, Claire’s Knee
Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge
Francesca Annis, Macbeth
Laurie Bird, Two-Lane Blacktop

Screenplay:
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Last Picture Show
Carnal Knowledge
Walkabout
A New Leaf

Ensemble:
The Last Picture Show
Little Murders
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Beguiled
Carnal Knowledge

Cinematography:
Walkabout (Roeg)
Klute (Willis)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Zsigmond)
The Last Picture Show (R. Surtees)
Death in Venice (P. De Santis)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.