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UVA Critics Choose Best Films

Promising - Gilbert Cates ("I Never
Sang For My Father").

Mr. Erickson: Best Pictures - 1)
"The Wild Child," 2) "Loving," 3)
"The Ballad of Cable Hogue," 4)
"The Pizza Triangle," 5) "My Night
at Maud's," 6-10) "Brewster
McCloud," "Lovers and Other
Strangers,' "Zabriskie Point," "The
Passion of Anna." "Patton." Best
Director - Francois Truffaut ("The
Wild Child"). Best Actor -
Marcello Mastroianni ("The Pizza
Triangle"). Best Actress -
Francoise Fabian ("My Night at
Maud's"). Best Supporting Actor -
David Warner ("The Ballad of Cable
Hogue"). Best Supporting Actress
- Abstained. Best Foreign Film -
"The Wild Child." Best Original
Screenplay - Eric Rohmer ("My
Night at Maud's"). Best Screenplay
based on material from another
medium - Renee Taylor, Joseph
Bologna, and David Zelag Goodman
("Lovers and Other Strangers").
Director Most Promising - Robert
Altman ("M*A*S*H" and
"Brewster McCloud").

Miss Hardwicke: Best Pictures -
1) "M*A*S*H," 2) "Catch-22," 3)
"Patton," 4) "Lovers and Other
Strangers," 5) "Diary of a Mad
Housewife," 6-10) "Women in
Love," "Tell Me That You Love Me
Junie Moon," "Five Easy Pieces,"
"The Boys in the Band," "Joe."
Best Director - Franklin J.
Schaffner ("Patton"). Best Actor -
George C. Scott ("Patton"). Best
Actress - Carrie Snodgress ("Diary
of a Mad Housewife"). Best
Supporting Actor - Richard
Castellano ("Lovers and Other
Strangers"). Best Supporting
Actress - Sally Kellerman
("M*A*S*H"). Best Foreign Film
- Abstained. Best Original
Screenplay - Francis Ford Coppola
and Edmund North ("Patton").
Best Screenplay based on material
from another medium - Mart
Crowley ("The Boys in the Band").
Director Most Promising -
Abstained.

Mr. Carr: Best Pictures - 1)
"Five Easy Pieces," 2) "Patton," 3)
"Women in Love." 4) "Joe," 5)
"The Virgin and the Gypsy." 6-10)
"The Wild Child," "I Never Sang
For My Father," "Performance,"
"Woodstock," "Tristana." Best
Director - Bob Rafelson ("Five
Easy Pieces"). Best Actor - Dustin
Hoffman ("Little Big Man") and
Melvyn Douglas ("I Never Sang For
My Father"). Best Actress - Carrie
Snodgress ("Diary of a Mad
Housewife"). Best Supporting
Actor - John Mills ("Ryan's
Daughter"). Best Supporting
Actress - Lee Grant ("The
Landlord"). Best Foreign Film -
"The Wild Child." Best Original
Screenplay - Norman Wexler
("Joe"). Best Screenplay based on
material from another medium -
Robert Anderson ("I Never Sang
For My Father"). Director Most
Promising - John G. Avildsen
("Joe").