Universal (Zanuck-Brown Production)
Oscar Nominations: 4
Picture, produced by Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
Sound: Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, and John Carter
Film Editing: Verna Fields
Original Score: John Williams
Oscar Awards: 3
Sound
Editing
Original Score
Oscar Context:
In 1975, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” the most nominated (9) film, swept most of the important awards, including Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress. It was the second film in the Academy's history, after Capra's comedy “It Happened One Night,” in 1934, to achieve that.
The Best Picture competition in 1975 was rather strong. “One Flew” competed with Kubrick's masterful adaptation, “Barry Lyndon”; Sidnely Lumet's excellent New York streets drama “Dog Day Afternoon;” Spielberg's first blockbuster that was also extremely well-acted “Jaws”; and Robert Altman's cynical epic Americana “Nashville,” considered by many critics to be his best work, which won only one Oscar (for Best Song). The technical Oscars were split between “Barry Lyndon” and “Jaws.”
