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Critics Name Year's Best Films

Sunday," "Fiddler on the
Roof," "Klute."

Best Director — Mike
Nichols ("Carnal Knowledge").
Best Actor — Gene Hackman
("The French Connection").
Best Actress — Jane Fonda
("Klute"). Best Supporting
Actor — Leonard Frey
("Fiddler on the Roof"). Best
Supporting Actress —
Ann-Margret ("Carnal
Knowledge"). Best Foreign
Film — Abstained. Best
Original Screenplay — Jules
Feiffer ("Carnal Knowledge").
Best Screenplay based on
material from another medium
— Larry McMurtry and Peter
Bogdanovich ("The Last
Picture Show"). Director Most
Promising — Peter Bogdanovich
("The Last Picture Show").

Mr. Barry: Best Pictures —
1) "The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis," 2) "The Last
Picture Show," 3) "Carnal
Knowledge," 4) "A Clockwork
Orange," 5) "Taking Off,"
6 - 10) "The French
Connection," "Sunday Bloody
Sunday," (3 Abstentions).

Best Director — Peter
Bogdanovich ("The Last
Picture Show"). Best Actor —
Walter Matthau ("Kotch").
Best Actress — Jane Fonda
("Klute"). Best Supporting
Actor — Warren Oates
("Two-Lane Blacktop"). Best
Supporting Actress —
Ann-Margret ("Carnal
Knowledge"). Best Foreign
Film - "Bed and Board." Best
Original Screenplay — Jules
Feiffer ("Carnal Knowledge").
Best Screenplay based on
material from another medium
— Ugo Pirro and Vittorio
Bonicelli ("The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis"). Director Most
Promising — Peter Bogdanovich
("The Last Picture Show").

Mr. Grimwood: Best
Pictures — 1) "The Last Picture
Show," 2) "The French
Connection," 3) "McCabe and
Mrs. Miller," 4) "Clowns," 5)
"Maidstone," 6-10) "200
Motels," "Bananas," "Sunday
Bloody Sunday," "Klute,"
"Investigation of a Citizen
Above Suspicion."

Best Director — Peter
Bogdanovich ("The Last
Picture Show"). Best Actor —
Timothy Bottoms ("The Last
Picture Show"). Best Actress —
Glenda Jackson ("Sunday
Bloody Sunday"). Best
Supporting Actor — Ben
Johnson ("The Last Picture
Show"). Best Supporting
Actress — Cloris Leachman
("The Last Picture Show").
Best Foreign Film —
Abstained. Best Original
Screenplay — Abstained. Best
Screenplay based on material
from another medium — Larry
McMurtry and Peter
Bogdanovich ("The Last
Picture Show"). Director Most
Promising — Abstained.