Below is the final ballot for the 1974 Retro Filmspots. To vote, please copy-and-paste the ballot into a
private message to me. You can vote anytime from now through
Sunday, December 16. (Note: If you submitted a nominations ballot, you'll be receiving a copy of this final ballot in your inbox shortly.)
You don't have to vote in every category, but there's also no need to abstain just because you haven't seen a key nominee or two. Part I of the ballot lets me know which films you haven't yet seen and that's taken into account in tabulating the results. That way, your vote for the best nominee you've seen doesn't hurt the nominees you haven't seen.
Voting is open to everyone. You don't have to have submitted a nominations ballot in order to vote on this final ballot.
Winners will be posted on the forums on Monday, December 17, sometime during the afternoon.
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PART I: Which of the nominated films have you
NOT yet seen? (Delete the ones you
have seen from the list below.)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice in the Cities
The Amputee
Animals Are Beautiful People
Blazing Saddles
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Chinatown
The Conversation
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
Foxy Brown
General Idi Amin Dada
The Godfather: Part II
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Hearts and Minds
The Heron and the Crane
Lenny
The Miracle of Flight
The Night Porter
The Parallax View
Phantom of the Paradise
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
That's Entertainment!
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Un homme qui dort
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
A Woman Under the Influence
Young Frankenstein
PART II: Select your favorite nominee in each category. It's best for me if you leave only the nominee you're voting for and delete the other four.
If there are nominees that you don't remember well enough to consider voting for (even though you've seen the film), please feel free to note that next to your vote in that category.Best Picture Chinatown The Conversation The Godfather: Part II Un homme qui dort A Woman Under the InfluenceBest Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Roman Polanski,
Chinatown Francis Ford Coppola,
The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola,
The Godfather: Part II John Cassavetes,
A Woman Under the InfluenceBest Original Screenplay Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger,
Blazing Saddles Robert Towne,
Chinatown Francis Ford Coppola,
The Conversation Liliana Cavani and Miss Cavani and Italo Moscati,
The Night Porter John Cassavetes,
A Woman Under the InfluenceBest Adapted Screenplay Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo,
The Godfather: Part II (from the novel
The Godfather by Mario Puzo)
David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr.,
The Parallax View (from the novel by Loren Singer)
Peter Stone,
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (from the novel by John Godey)
Georges Perec,
Un homme qui dort (from his own novel)
Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks,
Young Frankenstein (from the novel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)
Best Actor Peter Falk,
A Woman Under the Influence Gene Hackman,
The Conversation Jack Nicholson,
Chinatown Al Pacino,
The Godfather: Part II Gene Wilder,
Young FrankensteinBest Actress Ellen Burstyn,
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Faye Dunaway,
Chinatown Brigitte Mira,
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Charlotte Rampling,
The Night Porter Gena Rowlands,
A Woman Under the InfluenceBest Supporting Actor John Cazale,
The Godfather: Part II Robert De Niro,
The Godfather: Part II John Huston,
Chinatown Robert Shaw,
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Gene Wilder,
Blazing SaddlesBest Supporting Actress Teri Garr,
Young Frankenstein Madeline Kahn,
Blazing Saddles Diane Keaton,
The Godfather: Part II Diane Ladd,
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Cloris Leachman,
Young FrankensteinBest Ensemble Cast Chinatown The Godfather: Part II The Taking of Pelham One Two Three A Woman Under the Influence Young FrankensteinBest Non-English Language Film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Alice in the Cities Celine and Julie Go Boating The Enigma of Kasper Hauser Un homme qui dortBest Documentary Animals Are Beautiful People (directed by Jamie Uys)
General Idi Amin Dada (directed by Barbet Schroeder)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (directed by Werner Herzog)
Hearts and Minds (directed by Peter Davis)
That's Entertainment! (directed by Jack Haley Jr.)
Best Short Film The Amputee (directed by David Lynch)
The Heron and the Crane (directed by Yuriy Norshteyn)
The Miracle of Flight (directed by Terry Gilliam)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.)
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (directed by John Lounsbery)
Best Editing Nicole Lubtchansky,
Celine and Julie Go Boating Sam O'Steen,
Chinatown Richard Chew,
The Conversation Barry Malkin, Richard Marks , and Peter Zinner,
The Godfather: Part II Andrée Davanture and Agnès Molinard,
Un homme qui dortBest Score Jerry Goldsmith,
Chinatown Willie Hutch,
Foxy Brown Nino Rota,
The Godfather: Part II Paul Williams,
Phantom of the Paradise Bo Harwood,
A Woman Under the InfluenceBest Cinematography John A. Alonzo,
Chinatown Gordon Willis,
The Godfather: Part II Bruce Surtees,
Lenny Gordon Willis,
The Parallax View Bernard Zitzermann,
Un homme qui dortBest Art Direction Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell, and Ruby R. Levitt,
Chinatown Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, and George R. Nelson,
The Godfather: Part II Jack Fisk,
Phantom of the Paradise Robert A. Burns,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Dale Hennesy and Robert De Vestel,
Young FrankensteinBest Scene Final Mix,
The Conversation Festa March,
The Godfather: Part II New Year's Eve 1958,
The Godfather: Part II The Dinner Scene,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Mabel Comes Home,
A Woman Under the InfluenceBest Line "Excuse me while I whip this out." -
Blazing Saddles "'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." -
Chinatown "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." -
Chinatown "I know it was you, [...]. You broke my heart." -
The Godfather: Part II "Tell me what you want me to... how you want me to be. I can be that. I can be anything." -
A Woman Under the Influence