"The Way We Were" stars Redford as Hubbell Gardner, a handsome and popular college student who falls in love with, and eventually marries, a passionate leftist activist named Katie Morosky, played by Barbra Streisand. The film chronicles the ups and downs of their relationship and the tumult sometimes caused by their disparate personalities and backgrounds.
The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning for Best Dramatic Score and Best Original Song.
2. Flute
Answer: Klute
Sutherland plays a detective named John Klute, who is investigating the disappearance of his friend. His only lead is a contact, played by Jane Fonda, who is a New York prostitute named Bree Daniels. "Klute" was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for Jane Fonda.
3. Robbie Beershield
Answer: Bobby Deerfield
Pacino stars in the title role, playing a famous American race car driver competing in Europe. The film follows his relationship with Lillian (Marthe Keller), a beautiful woman he meets while visiting his friend in the hospital, and who is terminally ill.
4. Bean Sheets
Answer: Mean Streets
This was the first of many collaborations between De Niro and director Martin Scorsese. "Mean Streets" follows the life of a young hood named Charlie (Harvey Keitel), who collects protection money on behalf of his wiseguy uncle. Charlie hangs out with two other men from the wiseguy community named Tony and Michael, and De Niro plays Johnny Boy, another friend of Charlie's whose unstable and nearly psychotic personality threatens to get them all in trouble.
5. Duh Swing
Answer: The Sting
Newman stars with Robert Redford in this con game comedy as two grifters named Henry and Johnny, who team up to construct an elaborate scheme to con a local mob boss, named Lonnegan (Robert Shaw), out of half a million dollars. "The Sting" garnered ten Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song Score, Best Writing for David S. Ward, Best Director for George Roy Hill, and Best Picture.
6. Seeing Air
Answer: Being There
"Being There" stars Peter Sellers as Chance, a simple-minded gardener who has spent his entire life living at the estate of his employer in Washington, D.C. After his employer dies, Chance is forced to move out and fend for himself, even though he has no knowledge of the outside world, other than what he has learned through television. "Being There" received two Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas.
7. I've Queasy Nieces
Answer: Five Easy Pieces
Nicholson stars as Bobby Eroica Dupea, a once promising concert pianist from an upper-crust family of musicians. His restless and angry personality causes him to turn his back on his family and career to go out and see the world. "Five Easy Pieces" was nominated for four Academy Awards (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Best Picture), but it did not win in any category.
8. Draw Hogs
Answer: Straw Dogs
Hoffman plays a timid American astrophysicist named David Sumner, who moves with his English wife Amy (Susan George) to a rural English town, to get away from American violence. Soon, though, David runs into trouble with some local men he hires to work construction on his house.
The men bully David and go so far as to rape Amy. David decides to fight back and the conflict quickly escalates to a bloody and violent climax. The film garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Dramatic Score.
9. John Black
Answer: Conrack
Jon Voight plays a young white teacher named Pat Conroy, who is assigned to teach at a school on an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor African American families. He quickly finds that most of the neglected children are illiterate and have little interest in learning about anything outside their island.
The children know so little of the outside world that they virtually develop their own language, and "Conrack" is their way of saying his name, Conroy. He tries to find a way to get through to the children and educate them with what they will need to know to succeed in life.
10. Duh Rambler
Answer: The Gambler
"The Gambler" follows a gifted literature professor named Axel Freed (Caan), who is addicted to gambling. The film chronicles his descent into gambling addiction, with his compulsion driving him to borrow money from his girlfriend, his mother, and then a local gangster named Hips, played by Paul Sorvino. Freed's addiction prevents him from simply paying off his debts when he wins, with his wagers becoming larger and more dangerous, to the point that he owes more than he can possibly repay.
11. Sweat Jerk
Answer: Network
"Network" is a satire about a fictional television network and their struggles with poor ratings. Peter Finch plays Howard Beale, the anchor of the network's evening news program, who threatens to commit suicide during a live broadcast, after he is fired due to low ratings. "Network" is another film that was nominated for ten Academy Awards.
This one won for Best Actor (Peter Finch), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), and Best Writing (Paddy Chayefsky).
12. Duh Wood Thigh Swirl
Answer: The Goodbye Girl
The film follows a divorced mother named Paula (Marsha Mason) and her daughter coming home to discover that her actor boyfriend has left town without warning, and has sublet their apartment to a fellow actor named Elliot (Dreyfuss), without telling Elliot about Paula and her daughter. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, with Richard Dreyfuss winning for Best Actor.
13. Trash Pill
Answer: Nashville
Altman directs a large cast in this film of several intersecting stories, involving different people connected with the Nashville music business. "Nashville" received five Academy Award nominations, with Keith Carradine winning for Best Original Song.
14. Ha Crutch of Sass
Answer: A Touch of Class
Segal plays Steve Blackburn, a happily married American man living in London. He meets an English divorcée named Vicki (Glenda Jackson), and they run off to Spain for a week-long tryst. They continue their relationship, which is purely physical, when they return to London.
A problem arises for Steve, who loves his wife and children, when he starts to feel himself falling in love with Vicki. "A Touch of Class" was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for Glenda Jackson.
15. Dove Glory
Answer: Love Story
O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a Harvard Law student who comes from a long line of wealthy and well-respected Harvard alumni. Oliver meets and falls in love with a girl named Jennifer Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a working-class student attending Radcliffe College, whom his father disapproves of.
When the couple decides to get married against the wishes of Oliver's father, they are cut off financially from him and they have to struggle to make it on their own. Oliver is able to graduate third in his class and lands a position at a New York law firm, with Jennifer teaching at a private school. Things are going well for the couple until they decide to try to have a child.
After numerous failed attempts to conceive, they consult a physician and are informed that Jennifer is terminally ill and will soon die.
The film garnered seven Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Original Score.
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