NOMINATIONS
Best Picture
Best Director - Peter Bogdanovich
Best Supporting Actor - Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actor - Ben Johnson (WON)
Best Supporting Actress - Ellen Burstyn
Best Supporting Actress - Cloris Leachman (WON)
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Bogdanovich/Larry McMurtry
Best Cinematography - Robert Surtees
I love The Last Picture Show, another film I didn't see until I took on the 1971 Retrospective. It is so damn beautiful -- beautifully-written, beautifully-shot, beautifully-acted. Roger Ebert ranked it among his Great Movies, saying, "It is about a town with no reason to exist, and people with no reason to live there."
But oh, what people! A perfect ensemble just ripe for the casting -- and really, I expect that this film, along with The Big Chill, will eventually be remade. And if it happened today, who might we see?
This guarantees to be the 2014 Academy Award Nominee-iest cast of the bunch...check it out after the jump.
