Throwback Muriels: 1978

Thursday, July 21, 2011

1978

Picture:
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
The Fury
Straight Time
Martin
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Violette
Superman
A Wedding

Director:
Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating
Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven
Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
Brian De Palma, The Fury
George A. Romero, Martin

Male Lead:
Dustin Hoffman, Straight Time
Richard Pryor, Blue Collar
Donald Sutherland, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Richard Gere, Days of Heaven
John Amplas, Martin

Female Lead:
Juliet Berto, Celine and Julie Go Boating
Dominique Labourier, Celine and Julie Go Boating
Isabelle Huppert, Violette
Brooke Adams, Days of Heaven
Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata

Male Supporting:
Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter
Sam Shepard, Days of Heaven
Vittorio Gassman, A Wedding
John Cassavetes, The Fury
John Savage, The Deer Hunter

Female Supporting:
Linda Manz, Days of Heaven
Stephane Audran, Violette
Liv Ullmann, Autumn Sonata
Theresa Russell, Straight Time
Carol Burnett, A Wedding

Screenplay:
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Straight Time
The Deer Hunter
Days of Heaven
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Ensemble:
A Wedding
Days of Heaven
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Violette
The Deer Hunter

Cinematography:
Days of Heaven (Almendros/Wexler)
The Duellists (Tidy)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Lubtchansky)
Violette (Rabier)
The Deer Hunter (Zsigmond)

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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.