Gangster Movie Awards
1971 - 1989

1971
Best Picture:
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
*The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra

Best Director:
Peter Bogdanovich for The Last Picture
*William Friedkin for The French Connection
Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick for A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger for Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Best Actor:
Peter Finch in Sunday, Bloody Sunday
*Gene Hackman in The French Connection
Walter Matthau in Kotch
George C. Scott in The Hospital
Topol in Fiddler on the Roof

Best Supporting Actor:
Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture Show
Leonard Frey in Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion
*Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show
Roy Scheider in The French Connection

Best Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium):
A Clockwork Orange
The Conformist
*The French Connection, Ernest Tidyman
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Last Picture Show

Best Cinematography:
*Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection, Owen Roizman
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Summer of '42

Best Editing:
The Andromeda Strain
A Clockwork Orange
*The French Connection, Jerry Greenberg
Kotch
Summer of '42

Best Sound:
Diamonds Are Forever
*Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection, Theodore Soderberg and Christopher Newman
Kotch
Mary, Queens of Scots

1972
Best Picture:
Cabaret
Deliverance
The Emigrants
*The Godfather
Sounder

Best Director:
John Boorman for Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather
*Bob Fosse for Cabaret
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth
Jan Troell for The Emigrants

Best Actor:
*Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Michael Caine in Sleuth
Laurence Olivier in Sleuth
Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class
Paul Winfield in Sounder

Best Supporting Actor:
Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid
James Caan in The Godfather
Robert Duvall in The Godfather
*Joel Grey in Cabaret
Al Pacino in The Godfather

Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium):
Cabaret
The Emigrants
*The Godfather, Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
Pete 'N' Tillie
Sounder

Best Editing:
*Cabaret
Deliverance
The Godfather, William Reynolds and Peter Zinner
The Hot Rock
The Poseidon Adventure

Best Sound:
Butterflies Are Free
*Cabaret
The Candidate
The Godfather, Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman and Christopher Newman
The Poseidon Adventure

Best Costume Design:
The Godfather, Anna Hill Johnstone
Lady Sings the Blues
The Poseidon Adventure
*Travels with My Aunt
Young Winston

1973
Best Picture:
American Graffiti
Cries and Whispers
The Exorcist
*The Sting
A Touch of Class

Best Director:
Ingmar Bergman for Cries and Whispers
Bernardo Bertolucci for Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin for The Exorcist
*George Roy Hill for The Sting
George Lucas for American Graffiti

Best Actor:
Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris
*Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger
Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail
Al Pacino in Serpico
Robert Redford in The Sting

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - Based on Factual Material
or Material Not Previously Published or Produced):
American Graffiti
Cries and Whispers
Save the Tiger
*The Sting, David S. Ward
A Touch of Class

Best Cinematography:
*Cries and Whispers
The Exorcist
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
*The Sting, Dante Spinotti
The Way We Were

Best Editing:
American Graffiti
The Day of the Jackal
The Exorcist
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
*The Sting, William Reynolds

Best Sound:
The Day of the Dolphin
*The Exorcist
The Paper Chase
Paper Moon
The Sting, Ronald K. Pierce and Robert Bertrand

Best Music (Original Song Score and/or Adaption):
Jesus Christ Superstar
*The Sting, Marvin Hamlisch
Tom Sawyer

Best Art/Set Decoration:
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
The Exorcist
*The Sting, Henry Bumstead; James Payne
Tom Sawyer
The Way We Were

Best Costume Design:
Cries and Whispers
Ludwig
*The Sting, Edith Head
Tom Sawyer
The Way We Were

1974
Best Picture:
Chinatown
The Conversation
*The Godfather Part II
Lenny
The Towering Inferno

Best Director:
John Cassavetes for A Woman Under the Influence
*Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II
Bob Fosse for Lenny
Roman Polanski for Chinatown
Francois Truffaut for Day for Night

Best Actor:
*Art Carney in Harry and Tonto
Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express
Dustin Hoffman in Lenny
Jack Nicholson in Chinatown
Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II

Best Supporting Actor:
Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno
Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
*Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II
Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II
Lee Strasberg in The Godfather Part II

Best Supporting Actress:
*Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express
Valentina Cortese in Day for Night
Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles
Diane Ladd in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Talia Shire in The Godfather Part II

Best Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material):
The Apprenticeship
*The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Lenny
Murder on the Orient Express
Young Frankenstein

Best Music (Original Dramatic Score):
Chinatown
*The Godfather Part II, Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola
Murder on the Orient Express
Shanks
The Towering Inferno

Best Art/Set Decoration:
Chinatown
Earthquake
*The Godfather Part II, Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham; George R. Nelson
The Island at the Top of the World
The Towering Inferno

Best Costume Design:
Chinatown
Daisy Miller
*The Godfather Part II, Theadora Van Runkle
*The Great Gatsby
Murder on the Orient Express

1975
Best Picture:
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville
*One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Director:
Robert Altman for Nashville
Federico Fellini for Amarcord
*Milos Forman for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stanley Kubrick for Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet for Dog Day Afternoon

Best Actor:
Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys
*Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
Maximilian Schell in The Man in the Glass Booth
James Whitmore in Give 'em Hell, Harry!

Best Supporting Actor:
*George Burns in The Sunshine Boys
Brad Dourif in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Burgess Meredith in The Day of the Locust
Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon
Gloria Stuart in Titanic

Best Supporting Actress:
Ronee Blakley in Nashville
*Lee Grant in Shampoo
Sylvia Miles in Farewell, My Lovely
Lily Tomlin in Nashville
Brenda Vaccaro in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

Best Writing (Original Screenplay):
Amarcord
And Now My Love
*Dog Day Afternoon, Frank Pierson
Lies My Father Told Me
Shampoo

Best Editing:
Dog Day Afternoon, Dede Allen
*Jaws
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Three Days of the Condor

1976
Best Music (Orignal Song Score and
It's Adaptation or Adaptation Score:
*Bound for Glory
Bugsy Malone, Paul Williams
A Star Is Born

1978
Best Art Direction:
The Brink's Job, Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham; George R. Nelson
California Suite
*Heaven Can Wait
Interiors
The Wiz

1983
Best Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score):
The Sting II, Lalo Schifrin
Trading Places
*Yentl

1984
Best Art/Set Direction:
*Amadeus
The Cotton Club, Richard Sylbert; George Gaines
The Natural
A Passage to India
2010

Best Editing:
Amadeus
The Cotton Club, Barry Malkin and Robert O. Lovett
*The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Romancing the Stone

1985
Best Picture:
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
*Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
Witness

Best Director:
Hector Babenco for Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston for Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa for Ran
*Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa
Peter Weir for Witness

Best Actor:
Harrison Ford in Witness
James Garner in Murphy's Romance
*William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor
Jon Voight in Runaway Train

Best Supporting Actor:
*Don Ameche in Cocoon
Klaus Maria in Out of Africa
William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor
Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge
Eric Roberts in Runaway Train

Best Supporting Actress:
Margaret Avery in The Color Purple
*Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor
Amy Madigan in Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly in Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple

Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium):
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
*Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor, Richard Condon adn Janet Roach
The Trip to Bountiful

Best Editing:
A Chorus Line
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor, Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr
Runaway Train
*Witness

Best Costume Design:
The Color Purple
The Journey of Natty Gann
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor, Donfeld
*Ran

1987
Best Supporting Actor:
Albert Brooks in Broadcast
*Sean Connery in The Untouchables
Morgan Freeman in Street Smart
Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck
Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom

Best Music (Original Score):
Cry Freedom
Empire of the Sun
*The Last Emperor
The Untouchables, Ennio Morricone
The Witches of Eastwick

Best Art/Set Decoration:
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
*The Last Emperor
Radio Days
The Untouchables, Patrizia Von Brandenstein; Hal Gausman

Best Costume Design:
The Dead
Empire of the Sun
*The Last Emperor
Maurice
The Untouchables, Marilyn Vance-Straker

1988
Best Supporting Actor:
Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit
*Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda
Martin Landau in Tucker: The Man and His Dream
River Phoenix in Running on Empty
Dean Stockwell in Married to the Mob
 

1989
Best Sound:
The Abyss
Black Rain, Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Keith A. Wester
Born on the Fourth of July
*Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Best Sound Effects Editing:
Black Rain, Milton C. Burrow and William L. Manger
*Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2

Best Costume Design:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Harlem Nights, Joe I. Tompkins
*Henry V
Valmont

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