Throwback Muriels: 1976

Saturday, July 23, 2011

1976

Picture:
The Spirit of the Beehive
Taxi Driver
Solaris
Assault on Precinct 13
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Mikey and Nicky
Obsession
Up!
The Tenant

Director:
Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris
John Carpenter, Assault on Precinct 13
Nicolas Roeg, The Man Who Fell to Earth

Male Lead:
Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver
David Bowie, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Ben Gazzara, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
John Cassavetes, Mikey and Nicky
Peter Falk, Mikey and Nicky

Female Lead:
Ana Torrent, The Spirit of the Beehive
Liv Ullmann, Face to Face
Sissy Spacek, Carrie
Audrey Hepburn, Robin and Marian
Talia Shire, Rocky

Male Supporting:
Zero Mostel, The Front
Rip Torn, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Burgess Meredith, Rocky
Ned Beatty, Network
Chief Dan George, The Outlaw Josey Wales

Female Supporting:
Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver
Natalya Bondarchuk, Solaris
Piper Laurie, Carrie
Candy Clark, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Amy Irving, Carrie

Screenplay:
Taxi Driver
The Spirit of the Beehive
Mikey and Nicky
The Man Who Fell to Earth
All the President’s Men

Ensemble:
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Small Change
Taxi Driver
The Tenant
Assault on Precinct 13

Cinematography:
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Richmond)
Solaris (Yusov)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Cuadrado)
Obsession (Zsigmond)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Surtees)

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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.